defensive alliance in a sentence
Examples
- In 1882 Italy signed a defensive alliance with Austria-Hungary and Germany ( see Triple Alliance ).
- On 21 December 1941, a mutual offensive-defensive alliance pact between the two countries was signed.
- In 1799, the two countries signed a defensive alliance that did not precipitate into direct military action.
- Tippu Sahib again proposed an offensive and defensive alliance to France in October 1794, and April 1796.
- NATO is a defensive alliance which threatens no one, the cries of extremist Russian nationalists to the contrary,
- "NATO is a defensive alliance, not an offensive alliance, " he told his colleagues.
- For that purpose it deployed the entire defensive alliance with Greece and hoped the Greek Army would also intervene.
- Goslar was involved in defensive alliances and came to the aid of towns troubled by internal unrest or robbers.
- Belgium was, in fact, part of a western defensive alliance, to the threshold of the war.
- No sooner had James ratified the defensive alliance than Treaty of Etaples, not troubling to consult his ally.