Sentence examples for nearest allies from inspiring English sources

It cannot undo the deliberate deployment of haste so that our nearest allies had no opportunity to express disagreement.

If Britain wants to preserve a healthy relationship with its nearest allies, it is not enough that Brexit fails.

"It is shocking that the United States take measures against their most important and nearest allies, comparable to measures taken in the past by the KGB, by the secret service of the Soviet Union".

In this passage, widely quoted by opponents of evolutionary theory, Darwin suggests that the break between "man and his nearest allies" will be widened through the extinction of the great apes, leaving a gap between the more civilised man "and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla".

It is, therefore, probable that Africa was formerly inhabited by extinct apes closely allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee; and as these two species are now man's nearest allies, it is somewhat more probable that our early progenitors lived on the African continent than elsewhere.

In his interview with PBS, Obama said that it was in America's "core self-interest" to prevent chemical weapons being used in a volatile area, near allies such as Turkey and Israel.

Ron Howard's plodding, pedestrian hagiography of troubled mathematician John Nash - who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia but went on to win the Nobel prize - is taken straight from Dryden's maxim about great wits being sure to madness near allied.

The novelist Jeanette Winterson has heard voices that she says put her "in the crazy category," and the idea has a long history: Plato's "mad poet," Aristotle's "melancholic genius," and John Dryden's dictum that "great wits are sure to madness near allied".

Earlier, in the 17th century, literary critic John Dryden wrote: "Great wits are sure to madness near allied, / And thin partitions do their bounds divide".

The movements and political parties affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab region have become in the minds of some in Iran near-allies of the United States, Europe and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Until last year, Turkey and Syria were close allies, says the BBC's James Reynolds, near the Turkey-Syria border.