Converse of object

• assemble: Make Poverty History is the largest ever coalition assembled in the UK to fight against global poverty.

• govern: Predictably, the financial markets favor a continuation of the economic policies pursued by the governing coalition.

Preposition: against

• terrorism: At our conference six months ago, I gave my firm backing to the international coalition against terrorism.

Adjective modifier

• u.s.-led: Loyalist followers of the former dictator are accused of targeting Iraqis they perceive to be working with the U.S.-led coalition.

• us-led: Jordan did not join a US-led coalition that drove Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991.

• broad-based: He called for a broad-based student coalition against the war.

• anti-terrorist: Work in progress includes a study of the possibility of international anti-terrorist coalitions.

• centre-right: The specter looms of a return to the centre-right coalition that ruled the Federal Republic from 1983 to 1998.

• anti-war: The UK anti-war coalition is urging everyone who can to get to London on April 12th.

Modifies a noun

• troop: The coalition troops of about 30,000 have stayed about level.

• force: Should the coalition forces have gone onto Baghdad, should an attempt have been made to arrest... ?

• aircraft: All coalition aircraft departed the area safely, " added the statement.

Noun used with modifier

• centre-left: But the most important thing the centre-left coalition might achieve is proportional representation.

• Dem: Labor leaders here are said to be increasingly disenchanted with their Lib Dem coalition partners and considering alternative alliances after May 2007.

• anti-terrorism: We should look very carefully at this anti-terrorism coalition and who is joining it and why.

• ruling: On the one hand the ruling coalition is firmly committed to economic reforms.

• anti-terror: Schroeder has argued that a strike against Baghdad could wreck the international anti-terror coalition and throw the Middle East into turmoil.

• rainbow: The No campaign would be a rainbow coalition, to which the Green Party would add green and would co-operate wholeheartedly.

Preposition: with

• SPD: Here the PDS has for a number of years been running the city in coalition with the SPD.

• bourgeoisie: Coalition with the bourgeoisie leads to the proletariat's abnegating the revolutionary struggle against imperialism.