While statistics indicate crime is down, his experience tells him violence remains prevalent, much of it perpetrated by gangs and looser alliances of teens and young adults. (investigativepost.org)
In order to increase their power, cities would organize themselves through a network of relationships ranging from loose alliances to direct subordination. (mayanruins.info)
Their book is both a cause and an effect of the broader «marriage movement,» a loose alliance of religious, social work, public policy and educational organizations and professionals who seek to promote this vision. (religion-online.org)