Sentence examples for a significant ally from inspiring English sources

For the west, Sandhurst-trained King Hamad's Bahrain is a significant ally; his kingdom hosts the US fifth fleet.

Poland has also been a significant ally for the United States in Iraq, and it still has 900 troops there.

If Mr Lokke Rasmussen becomes prime minister instead, he will prove a significant ally to Mr Cameron, having pledged to back EU reform.

But Morgan, who was believed to be a significant ally of the batsman during their time in the England dressing-room, has all but killed any talk of his return.

They gained a significant ally when Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, told a Senate panel last month that he thought a two-tier fee system would not work.

The United States gave some $3 million in law enforcement assistance to Nigeria last year, meets regularly with Nigerian officers on counterterrorism issues, and considers Nigeria a significant ally in the fight against Islamist extremism.

"We still consider ourselves a second-class Nato member-state, because in central Europe... there aren't, aside from a token presence, any significant allied forces or defence installations, which gives the Russians an excuse to play this region".

The hearing comes just 24 hours after the intelligence chiefs found themselves abandoned by Washington's political establishment, with anonymous administration officials claiming President Obama was unaware of the extent spying on foreign leaders – a practice unexpectedly rebuked by Senate intelligence chair Dianne Feinstein, who has been a significant NSA ally.

The hearing comes just 24 hours after the intelligence chiefs found themselves abandoned by Washington's political establishment, with anonymous administration officials claiming President Obama was unaware of the extent of spying on foreign leaders – a practice unexpectedly rebuked by Senate intelligence chair Dianne Feinstein, who has been a significant NSA ally.

China sought today to put a positive face on the abrupt end to talks it had arranged between the United States and North Korea, but diplomats and analysts argued that North Korea had alienated China, its only significant ally, by declaring that it had already become a nuclear power.

Yet the North's control of its citizens is such that even this work, in the country's only significant ally, could result in harsh punishment.