I am my child's ally and so are other key adults in his life. 2.

That way, the enemy of yesterday will become the friend of today, and the friend of today will be tomorrow's ally.

In the contest between fact and fantasy, fact suddenly had a powerful ally.

The United Nations remains our strongest ally in this war.

The US views Syria mainly through the lens of Iran, seeking to depose Assad in order to deprive Iran s leaders of an important ally in the region, one that borders Israel.

In 2007, Brand appeared in Cold Blood for ITV, playing an ex con called Ally.

Saudi Arabia considers Pakistan to be its closest non Arab ally and closest Muslim ally.

President George W. Bush, who was the first to congratulate Sarkozy, has a new ally in Europe.

Until a decade ago, Turkey was regarded as no more than a staunch NATO ally.

Protest against interim government presided by Mohamed Ghannouchi, a close ally of Ben Ali, on February 25.

It is permissible, according to bin Laden s ally in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, to spill infidel blood.

In 2011, he attempted to dismiss Heider Moslehi, an ally of Khamenei, from his position as intelligence chief, but was quickly overruled.

He is one of the leaders of the largest Russian political party, United Russia.

Indeed, for the first time in Russia s history in the Middle East, it can depend on genuinely powerful local allies.

In defense of its ally Serbia, Russia mobilized its troops, which resulted in Austria Hungary's ally Germany declaring war on Russia.

There is probably nothing more destructive to friendly relations among democratic states than behavior by an ally that causes the other side to lose face at home.

But that can no longer be an argument against diplomacy now that Israeli unilateralism has once again proven to be a strategic blind alley.

Silvio Berlusconi's ally in government, the Lega Nord (Northern League), is continuously conjuring up schemes to embarrass the national government with threats to the concept of national unity.

The United States and France were soon joined by Spain and the Dutch Republic, while Britain had no major allies of its own.

So far, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s government has not relented, despite the loss of support from a key coalition ally.

In Vietnam, the United States was not invading a country, but defending a corrupt authoritarian ally against an aggressive Communist regime.

Rather than becoming an ally, India is more likely to become one of the Asian countries that will tend to balance China s strategic rise.

Willingness reflects a complex mix of incentives influencing when, whom, and how to help and also reflects how busy a potential ally or target is.

But it is actually a description of what the Bahrain government, an ally in the coalition against the ISIS, has done to an American citizen and thousands of its own citizens.

In recognition of its support for the War on Terrorism, in June 2004 U.S. President George W. Bush designated Morocco as a major non NATO ally.

Against this are the unambiguous advantages of pleasing a major new ally and developing a pattern of bilateral military cooperation in supply, training, and operations that has yet to evolve.

World War II began with the invasion and subsequent partition of an important regional ally of Estonia Poland, by a joint operation of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

By driving up energy prices, Bush was Putin s greatest ally, with Putin returning the favor by refocusing Russia from its multiple problems to terrorism.

On 11 February 1387, John I married Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt, who had proved to be a worthy ally, consolidating the Anglo Portuguese Alliance that endures to the present day.

However, Yun Im, ally of Kim Anro, was able to keep his nephew as crown prince since the new queen, Queen Munjeong, did not have a son until later.

The decision to permit foreign direct investment in multi brand retail and civil aviation has been pursued, even at the cost of losing a recalcitrant coalition ally.

Will the US take measures to reassure China? How would a unified Korea affect attitudes in Japan?

And to interface with it, with a device that lets these forces that are everywhere act and show what they can do, giving them pigment and paint just like an artist, it's a good ally.

Egypt, where Hosni Mubarak s regime was Israel s closest ally in the war against Hamas in Gaza and in curtailing Iran s drive for regional hegemony, is of special concern.

The trip also heralds a dramatic shift in Israel s relationship with Obama, who has been criticized throughout his presidency for supposedly failing to provide sufficient support to America s strongest ally in the Middle East.

US President Barack Obama was wise to have invited Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a NATO ally, to Washington for talks on Syria and the impending peace conference.

But that alienation already largely ended earlier this year, when the Bush administration realized that allies are good to have and that Germany is an important one.

As in the Middle East, America s bilateral military relationships in Asia are often with frenemies, countries that share an alliance with the US while deeply mistrusting one another.

The almost inevitable fall of Iran s closest ally in the region, the Baath regime in Syria, only adds to the regime s paranoid anxieties and makes developing a nuclear capability seem all the more necessary for its survival.

One day after the result was announced, the country s Constitutional Council, led by Gbagbo s close ally Paul Yao N Dre, annulled the results from seven departments in the north, declaring Gbagbo the winner of the election with 51 of the vote.

Is all that not a little much for a potential ally? Can working with Assad possibly provide a sound basis for what is supposed to be a common effort?

One failure is already clear that of the neo conservative dream of creating a military ally that could serve as a long term base for American troops in the campaign to transform and democratize the Middle East.

Earlier this year, Lee, at the last minute, canceled the scheduled signing of the General Security of Military Information Agreement with Japan, which would have established military intelligence sharing between the two countries, both US allies, for the first time.

Akio Kyuma, the Director General of the Defense Agency, which is expected to be transformed into the Ministry of Defense, was instrumental in preventing Aso s ally, Fukushiro Nukaga, from running for LDP president.

The Bush administration, in bad need of a democratic Muslim ally, wants Wade to fill that bill, and seems to have decided, in the words of one high, but disappointed, US official, to give Wade a pass.