States are encouraged to distribute some of the money to coalitions composed of local government agencies and private nonprofit groups.

In 1973, an alliance of communally based parties was replaced with a broader coalition - the Barisan Nasional - composed of fourteen parties.

The local press described the coalition as composed of "union officials, clergy, sanitation workers, police officers, firefighters, district leaders and others who work at the grassroots level."

Mr. Smith (John Vernon) - One of the government representatives that constitutes C-5, a secret coalition composed of various members of the U.N.

His original body was finally defeated by a coalition composed of Arcueid and the Church's Burial Agency, and he has been re-incarnating ever since then.

He called for a coalition composed by most of the most important pre-Hispanic cities of the time: Tenochtitlan, Tlacopan, Tlatelolco, Huexotzingo, Tlaxcala and Chalco.

It is a coalition composed largely of "princelings" (the children of high-ranking former party leaders), business people, leaders of coastal cities, and members of the erstwhile "Shanghai clique."

Letizia Moratti was supported by a big center-right coalition, composed by People of Freedom, Lega Nord and some 9 civic lists.

Later, Algabid also became head of the Convergence for the Republic (CPR), a pro-Maïnassara coalition composed of 15 parties, which was formed in August 1998.

By unseating Mr. Deve Gowda's 14-party minority coalition, it had hoped to scramble back into office at the head of a new coalition composed of many of the same groups.