41.   The groups were working to create an alliance to coordinate a plan to prevent new infections and to help develop a national treatment plan for those already infected.

42.   The German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said the companies would create an alliance mainly to group their European and Latin American activities, but not their home market operations.

43.   The new deal creates an alliance between Golf Digest and tigerwoods.com.

44.   The showdown created strange alliances.

45.   Those at the meeting hailed it as a historic step more than half a century after the alliance was created to contain Soviet Moscow.

46.   Turkey, which neighbors all three countries, has in the past strongly criticized the initiative as an effort to create an alliance against it.

47.   Mahathir had last week warned the West against creating an alliance against China, labelling such a move as counter-productive and unwise.

48.   Putin also sought to counter US influence in the region with a proposal to create an alliance of gas producers grouping Russia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

49.   The deal would have created an alliance with the potential to derail an Awami League government.

50.   The Moslem-Croat alliance was created after eleven months of fighting between Moslems and Croats to form a viable counterpoint to the Bosnian Serbs.