Sentence examples for closed allies from inspiring English sources

After the polls closed, allies of State Senator Adriano Espaillat, who narrowly lost in his bid to unseat Representative Charles B. Rangel, said that many of Mr. Espaillat's supporters were turned away at the polls or had their ballots disqualified, and suggested that election workers had not done all they could to help Spanish-speaking voters cast ballots.

Their preferred strategies over the years — bulking up into closed allied networks, keeping customers via frequent flier systems and corporate loyalty programs — all share a basic mistrust of open competition.

They were close allies.

Information has trickled out slowly and incompletely from Syria, one of the most closed nations in the Middle East and a close ally of Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

The clearest risk is that the Iranians may play for time, as they have often been accused of doing in the past, making promises and encouraging more meetings, while waiting for political currents to change or the closed ranks among the Western allies to break.

The department's advice is tailored to the kind of building, but one common theme is that a closed door is a powerful ally.

Efforts to revive a temporary cessation of hostilities failed, and frustration intensified among American allies that the closed-door negotiations between Washington and Moscow had yielded no relief.

Mr. Wolfowitz also told NATO allies in his closed-door meeting earlier this week that the United States might shift units that operate reconnaissance drones, unmanned surveillance planes, from Balkan peacekeeping duties.

On Friday, after days of closed-door meetings, the United Nations rallied Western allies to break their silence on the crisis by issuing a statement calling for Parliament to convene "as soon as possible".

But after the closed court cleared him, Mr. Walesa suggested that former allies in Solidarity, who control the government, were to blame.

As someone who grew up distrustful of the kind of ally-ship that turns villainous behind closed doors, that constant reminder that we (people of color) weren't alone in this meant the world to me.