"It's a loose alliance, but why not go into a partnership with the best?"

This was only a loose alliance, with constant disputes about leadership and policy.

Still, he said, "it'd be pretty messy on paper having these three companies in a loose alliance."

The union was initially more a loose electoral alliance than a real party.

They were all united in a loose alliance and bickered a lot among themselves, but never came to blows.

The Party itself was a loose alliance of the constituent political parties.

However, a federation is more than a mere loose alliance of independent states.

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

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

Nearly a century ago the two powers had been united, although it was a loose alliance that seemed to benefit neither party.