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  • noun Plural form of coalitionist.

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Examples

  • And Fianna Fail hang your heads in shame, you and your coalitionists are a disgust to Ireland.

    Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52 2009

  • It seems that some of the main stumbling blocks have already been overcome – rumours of unhappy coalitionists biting their tongues – but the party grassroots need to be persuaded too.

    My Fantasy Cabinet Glyn Davies 2007

  • It was a sweeping victory for the coalition, which won 138 seats; 75 went to the Nationalists, 61 to the SAP, and 2 to the Labour coalitionists Creswell and Fred Shaw.

    Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 20 Ray Esther 1969

  • There was still some hope that the demonstration of the revolutionary masses in the streets might destroy the blind doctrinairism of the coalitionists and make them understand that they could retain their power only by breaking openly with the bourgeoisie.

    From October to Brest-Litovsk Leon Davidovich Trotzky 1909

  • We, the Bolsheviki, met every new company of disgruntled troops gathered in the yards and streets, with speeches, in which we called upon them to be calm and assured them that, in view of the present temper of the people, the coalitionists could not succeed in forming a new coalition.

    From October to Brest-Litovsk Leon Davidovich Trotzky 1909

  • They unanimously supported the Soviet of People's Commissaries, not only against counter-revolutionary instigators and sabotagers but also against the coalitionists and the skeptics.

    From October to Brest-Litovsk Leon Davidovich Trotzky 1909

  • A severe electoral struggle ensued, with the result that 45 liberals and 7 socialists were returned against 48 coalitionists.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • When he had had interviews with Greene and Hallett, he became anxious for Sumner's defeat; when he was with the coalitionists he would become, in a measure, reconciled to his election.

    Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 George S. Boutwell 1861

  • Louis de la Tremoille to go and renew the conquest; and, whilst thus reopening the Italian war, he commenced negotiations with certain of the coalitionists of the Holy League, in the hope of causing division amongst them, or even of attracting some one of them to himself.

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 1830

  • Instead of shutting herself up, as heretofore, within her walls, she forthwith raised three armies, took the offensive against the coalitionists, and carried the war into their territory.

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 1830

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