41. Timur offered an offensive and defensive alliance to Charles VI, as well as the development of commercial relations. 42. A five-year Anglo-German defensive alliance was presented, to be ratified by Parliament and the Reichstag. 43. The Pact of Brunnen, which emerged from the meeting, changed the pragmatic defensive alliance into a full confederacy. 44. During his tenure, Sweden recognized Russia as an empire and concluded a defensive alliance with her for 12 years. 45. Using their new-found diplomatic connections with the British, Persia established the Treaty of Defensive Alliance in 1812. 46. It was a defensive alliance , in which each party declared it would protect the territorial stability of the other. 47. "NATO has been and remains a defensive alliance of like-minded democratic states, " he said. 48. The defensive alliance , founded in Washington in 1949, was created essentially to protect Western Europe from the Soviet Union. 49. In Stockholm Paasikivi strove for Swedish defence guarantees, alternatively a defensive alliance or a defensive union between Finland and Sweden. 50. In 1893-94, French and Russian diplomats negotiated a defensive alliance meant to counter the growing power of Germany.
