Sentence examples for ally from inspiring English sources

Saudi Arabia was an important ally and economic partner came the muttered reply from No 10, and others.

Sadr's popularity among Shias far exceeds that of that Dawa Party which Maliki leads, or the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) of his ally, Ayatollah Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, which has its own militia, the Badr Brigades.

His biggest strategic miscalculation was not to use the leverage he had over George Bush as the only substantial western ally to join the 2003 invasion – the "coalition of the willing" – to extract a better plan for the occupation of Saddam Hussein's ill-governed state once the fighting was over (even sooner than expected).

He often blames developments he dislikes on the so-called "parallel state" supposedly made up of traitors, misfits and miscreants, more often than not in league with Fethullah Gülen, an exiled former ally and fellow Islamist with whom he is now involved in a long-running feud.

Another ultra-conservative MP, Nasser al-Shaker – a member of a Salafi party that was then an ally of the Brotherhood – called for legalisation of FGM, and said it had a religious mandate.

Irked by Warren's criticisms of the deal Obama chided his long-time ally for being a "politician" who was making "arguments" that "don't stand the test of fact and scrutiny".

Riyadh has signalled in the past that it might seek nuclear warheads from its ally Pakistan if Tehran were to develop them.

Ed Balls, the children's secretary and possibly Brown's closest ministerial ally, has been tipped for the Treasury.