Sentence examples for historical ally from inspiring English sources

As an historical ally of North Korea, and its main supplier of food and energy aid, China has the ear of the country's leader, Kim Jong Il.

Lee's speech came as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was visiting Beijing and pressing China to take a much tougher position toward North Korea, China's historical ally.

When Kosovo won Western backing for its bid for independence from Russia's historical ally Serbia, the Kremlin answered by vowing to win similar status for South Ossetia and for the Black Sea enclave of Abkhazia, which fall inside Georgia's borders.

He described France as "a long-term friend, historical ally and good neighbour" of the UK, but said the "damage" from handling migrants and refugees for Britain had been considerable.

But as he watched the continued protest over the disputed Florida ballots that secured the White House for George W. Bush, Bishop Blake found himself at odds with his historical allies.

Favourable impressions of the country had slumped not just in the Arab world but among its historical allies, including in the UK.

My latest Economic Scene column notes that for all the assertions that the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision would lead to a corporate takeover of politics, corporations seem to be losing the ability to control their historical allies in the Republican Party.

Indeed, even though the Socialists have no clear leader and their historical allies, the Communists, are in a tailspin of decline resulting from the vote, Mr. Chirac's followers seem determined to cajole their followers into avoiding complacency or triumphalism.

It's a motley group, to be sure — grayer, a little more prone to fits of paranoia than in its Cold War youth — but it still constitutes a coalition of U.S.-led historical allies with enough common interests to coöperate to at least prevent ISIS or its ilk from crossing borders to hijack airplanes, blow up hotels, or destabilize additional capitals.

It's a motley group, to be sure grayer, a little more prone to fits of paranoia than in its Cold War youth but it still constitutes a coalition of U.S.-led historical allies with enough common interests to coöperate to at least prevent ISIS or its ilk from crossing borders to hijack airplanes, blow up hotels, or destabilize additional capitals.

The countries had different levels of export control and different historical allies.