Any such majority was now thought likely to depend on formal or informal alliances which might emerge from the current intense negotiations.

Although informal alliances existed between each ideological pair, these alliances were not political parties as they exist today.

United Nations officials here believed they had struck an informal alliance with the Serbian nationalists.

However, the Mad Housers were able to reach an "informal alliance with local officials and the city police".

Although informal alliances can be temporarily agreed upon, there is no team: each player plays against the other players.

An informal Ottoman-Aceh alliance had existed since at least the 1530s.

That kind of integration between local and long-distance service is hard to match through an informal alliance.

However, by this point what had started as an informal alliance with the Christian Democrats was anything but that.

He formed them into a new informal alliance including himself, the First Triumvirate ("three men").

It was an informal alliance that lasted three decades.