Sentence examples for long-term ally from inspiring English sources

Iran is a long-term ally but demanding.

What feels like a curse when you're younger can prove to be a long-term ally.

Russia still hopes to play a diplomatic role with Assad, a long-term ally and customer of Moscow's arms exports.

The only bad news for Tehran is that Syria, Iran's long-term ally, is also under threat.

Even so, Glaser said Beijing would be celebrating how the Philippines' leader had publicly spurned the country's long-term ally.

Brown has also been increasingly reliant on his long-term ally Ed Balls, fuelling resentment from other senior cabinet figures.

Mark Renshaw and Bernhard Eisel, both long-term allies of Cavendish, have also joined the squad.

Several of those who have turned down invitations are long-term allies or trade partners.

In 2008, Brown had very publicly crushed a proposal to agree to an early referendum put forth by the Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander, one of Brown's long-term allies.

Several owners are likely to back Stern regardless of their internal preferences because they are long-term allies or because they are beholden to the league for other reasons.

Second, to show that Moscow is a more reliable ally than Washington, given that the Obama administration had abandoned long-term allies like former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt when they faced political upheaval.