Sentence examples for a firm friend of from inspiring English sources

She was presented at Court to Queen Victoria, and is a firm friend of the Duchess of Windsor.

If his older brother David, a firm friend of America who was defeated by Ed for the party leadership, had been leading Labour at this moment, the outcome might well have been different.

But in the House, fuel economy is the domain of the Energy and Commerce committee, which is chaired by John Dingell, a congressman from Michigan who is a firm friend of the car industry.

The first of these was picked up by the British monitoring service at Caversham and turned into a propaganda coup by the Daily Mirror's columnist Cassandra - who nevertheless later became a firm friend of Wodehouse.

Above all, they blame Turkey for switching from being a firm friend of Israel, the only other established democracy in the region, into an implacable foe.In this section Greece's woes The $64 billion question The devil in the deep-sea oil America's missing middle Ottoman dreamer ReprintsAre such sweeping accusations justified?

China, once a firm friend of North Korea, but now keen to keep on good economic terms with the South, is happy to mediate between the two in the hope of preventing a collapse in the North and the creation of a unified, all-capitalist Korea.As for the rival Koreas themselves, both claim to want reunification of their divided country, although only on their own incompatible terms.

And at the same time, if the U.S. remains a firm friend and ally of Japan, I doubt there will be much to fear in China's creating a huge economy.

Tony Benn was a true socialist and a firm friend and defender of the trade unions and working people everywhere.

James Norton, who plays Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and falls in love with Natasha at the ball, became a firm friend during the intense months of filming in all weathers between January and July.

The case brought by the Ministry of Defence and Dubai businessman Harvey Boulter against US Post-it note maker 3M ultimately forced Liam Fox, the former defence secretary, to reveal his reliance on Werritty, his best man and firm friend of 13 years.

Mrs Speed and Mrs Diouf joined soon after and both remain firm friends of ours.