Sentence examples for principal ally from inspiring English sources

Gates's principal ally was then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney.

Much of Mr. Bush's time will be spent with Mr. Blair, his principal ally in Iraq.

There was desultory criticism from America, but Israel's principal ally was otherwise engaged in Iraq.

Al Qaeda, he writes, also expects the Americans to go after Iran's principal ally in the region, Syria.

His principal ally over the years, Tony Blair, shared the sentiment, if not always the same words.

Mr. Assad and Russia, his principal ally, have asserted that the insurgents seeking Mr. Assad's demise were culpable.

The expansion also enabled the Ottomans to replace Aydın as the principal ally of the Byzantine emperor John VI Cantacuzenus.

Our principal ally at the beginning of the war, the Northern Alliance, controlled more of the country at the end of 2001 than President Hamid Karzai, our current principal ally, effectively controls today.

His benefactor and Syria's principal ally, Russia, has compared Palmyra's restoration with that of Leningrad after the second world war.

Essex and his principal allies, including the Earl of Southampton, were arrested.

Abdoulaye Wade, the former president and one of the sheik's principal allies, was defeated in April after a tumultuous campaign.