1.   On the face of it, their marriage seems an improbable alliance.

2.   Another important legislative victory credited to Dole was a product of a similarly improbable bipartisan alliance.

3.   Instead, Forbes greeted the improbable alliance with delight.

4.   Opposition parties were maintaining an improbable alliance.

5.   To take the company public, two prominent investment banks, bitter rivals, have temporarily buried the hatchet, joining in an improbable alliance to underwrite the sale.

6.   Kemp eagerly accepted, sealing an improbable political alliance.

7.   Members of all three government parties have said the time may be coming to re-evaluate their improbable alliance.

8.   Members of all three parties have said the time may be coming to re-evaluate their improbable alliance.