11.   Harrington was also a leader of the Socialist International, a loose alliance that includes the democratic, anti-communist socialist parties of Spain, France and Germany.

12.   Immediately after the assassination attempt, there was speculation that the so-called United Front, a loose alliance of anti-Taliban forces, would fall apart.

13.   In that case, he added, a loose alliance of the right might eventually emerge.

14.   In that group there has been consolidation, too, and analysts expect eventually at least a loose national alliance.

15.   It also could, observers say, lead to the breakup of the loose alliance of the ruling coalition.

16.   Its government backers are eager to see it converted from a loose marketing alliance into a more efficient standalone company that owns plants and builds planes.

17.   Many Japanese companies are clustered in loose alliances around a bank or trading company.

18.   Many people question whether the loose alliance of warlords who have pledged allegiance to the interim government in Kabul have the political will to carry out the cultivation ban.

19.   Not until the threat of invasion began to overwhelm those city-states did they begin forming the loose alliance that would eventually become the nation of Greece.

20.   On the other, is a loose alliance led by Charles Taylor, a descendent of American immigrants who was also on the council.