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ALLIANCE [6 records]

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Record 1 2019-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Modes substitutifs de résolution des différends
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
DEF

Contrat, union, accord de coopération contracté par engagement mutuel entre des entreprises indépendantes pour réaliser des projets communs de natures diverses : investissement, production, fournitures, distribution, recherche et développement, etc.

OBS

alliance : désignation normalisée par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • War and Peace (International Law)
DEF

A multilateral agreement by states to improve their power position by joining together in defense of their common interest. Most alliances are now characterized by an agreement to regard 'an attack upon any member of the alliance as an attack upon all'.

DEF

The result of formal agreements between two or more nations for broad, long-term objectives. (FM 100-5)

CONT

The ruling elites and coalitions of subordinate states frequently form alliances with the dominant powers and identify their values and interests with those of the dominant powers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
DEF

Le résultat d'ententes formelles entre États visant des objectifs d'envergure et à longue échéance.

OBS

alliance : terme et définition uniformisés par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Relaciones internacionales
  • Guerra y paz (Derecho internacional)
DEF

Forma de cooperación más estrecha entre los estados; vinculan la acción de los mismos en las circunstancias y en los modos previstos por el acuerdo o el tratado que las instituye. Una alianza se caracteriza por un compromiso en materia política o militar, que varios estados asumen para la protección o realización de sus intereses; el compromiso se formaliza con la firma de un acuerdo o tratado.

CONT

El primer fundamento de las alianzas es la percepción de insuficiencia de los recursos de los estados para promover un determinado interés, que incentiva a los gobiernos a buscar combinaciones internacionales con dicho fin.

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Record 3 1999-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Treaties and Conventions
  • War and Peace (International Law)
  • International Public Law
DEF

a union or association of two or more states or nations, formed by league or treaty, for the joint prosecution of a war (offensive alliance), or for their mutual assistance and protection in repelling hostile attacks (defensive alliance).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traités et alliances
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
  • Droit international public
DEF

Objet d'un traité, consistant dans l'engagement d'entraide mutuelle de deux ou plusieurs États et, par extension, nom de ce traité et, éventuellement, de l'institution qui en résulte.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Botany
DEF

The unit of next higher rank than the association in the Braun-Blanquet classification of plant communities.

CONT

Associations and fragments of associations which show floristic and sociological affinities between themselves form an alliance or group of associations. [Braun-Blanquet and Pavillard]

CONT

Classes, sub-classes, groups, alliances, and orders.

CONT

... the "Glumal Alliance" of Endogens contains the "Grasses", "Cyperaceæ", and three other allied orders.

OBS

The terminations of the names express their value; the groups end in "-osæ"; the alliances in "-ales"; the orders in "-aceæ"; the suborders in "-eæ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Botanique
DEF

Unité supérieure de la classification phytosociologique, qui comprend les associations végétales proches ayant des espèces caractéristiques en commun.

Spanish

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Record 5 1994-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux

Spanish

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Record 6 1992-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Seeks to develop a network of individuals to promote legislation protecting animals and their environment and teach the public how-to use the legislative process to establish laws protecting animals

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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