Sentence examples for an essential ally from inspiring English sources

His position was immediately disowned by No 10, which regards Saudi Arabia as an essential ally.

But Syria remains an essential ally for Iran, and a crucial link with Hezbollah, the Shiite movement based in Lebanon.

Seeing them as day-to-day caretakers makes it clear that in geriatrics, an adult daughter, like Mrs. Zaprutskiy's, is an essential ally.

But between that grim trio stands Ethiopia, America's hope.This ancient country has become an essential ally of America in the "war on terror".

After September 11th 2001, however, he was recast as a provider of relative stability in a dangerous neighbourhood, and an essential ally in the "war on terror".

Most importantly, Hawken was one of the very first people to understand that business was not just the cause of the world's environmental problems but a potential ally – indeed, an essential ally – in developing solutions.

Because of his control over ORT, Russia's largest and most watched television station, Mr. Berezovsky has often proved to be a useful, even essential, ally for the Kremlin.

But the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, called Mr. Vance a "close, cooperative and essential ally" and said there were not tensions between the police and Mr. Vance's office.

The US remains Israel's essential ally, but as a mediator is hobbled by the dependence of its legislators on politically motivated funding.

But in the end, Germany, an essential NATO ally, won its struggle.

Turkey, an essential American ally in any significant military action, has told Washington that it worries about Kurdish ambitions in Iraq spreading to its own restive Kurdish minority.