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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
coalition
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Examples
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A second possible explanation is that suicide attacks are motivated by an especially powerful emotional commitment of an individual to his or her social group (called the "coalitional commitment hypothesis").
Matt J. Rossano: The Surprising Effect of Religious Devotion on Suicide Attacks Matt J. Rossano 2010
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Moving seamlessly on, and needing his full measure of Etonian nonchalance to avoid embarrassment, the coalitional prime minister spoke of his grave fear that AV would result in more coalitions.
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In the Liberal party but not quite of it, John Bright ought to be a figure of interest to many Lib Dems in these coalitional days.
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It gives the Liberal Democrats a referendum on electoral reform, and compensates dubious Conservatives by redrawing the political map in a manner which happens to benefit them, providing both coalitional wings with reason to abide by their deal.
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But balancing the proclaimed newly muscular liberalism with a new muscularity of reaction is not a recipe for coalitional harmony, but a recipe for incoherence.
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The councillors newly elected this morning, have won themselves a miserable job – meting out the very harshest of those coalitional cuts that are coming so dangerously thick and fast.
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But balancing the proclaimed newly muscular liberalism with a new muscularity of reaction is not a recipe for coalitional harmony, but a recipe for incoherence.
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Ruth Atkin, Elly Bulkin, Rita Falbel, Adrienne Rich, and I decided to create BRIDGES in the late 1980s, buoyed by our feminist work in New Jewish Agenda and our excited imagining of progressive coalitional politics in America.
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First, there has been no correlation between coalitional, or UK, spend on anti-drug efforts in the last few years and the cultivation of poppies.
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He was seeking CUIP's support for a coalitional run.
Jacqueline Salit: How the Independent Movement Went Left by Going Right 2010
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