GE's industrial customers, who have long thought it a staunch ally against environmental campaigners.
The mayor, known as Red Ken for his left-leaning ways, invoked the "warmth and sympathy" Britons feel for an old ally against Hitler.
In America, particularly after the Great Awakening in the mid-18th century, it was a potent force for progress, an ally against statism and hierarchy.
In Islamabad the British high commission noted a secret public-opinion survey of 2005 that showed that Mr Musharraf, the West's Pakistani ally against terrorism, would lose the next election to Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.
Yet, since checking Soviet expansionism and not securing Israel was the US's primary strategic aim, and since the US perceived Saudi Arabia as an ally against Soviet expansionism, the Reagan administration pushed the sale forward against Israel's strenuous objections.
Because Bahrain hosts a U.S. naval presence, and because it has been able to cultivate an international image as an ally against radicalism even as it remains a theocratic state, there is an assumption that the American influence in Bahrain could be decisive.
Only ministers from Algeria and Iran, which is regarded as Syria's closest ally, were against the recommendation, reports say.
"I believe that we will remain a staunch and steadfast ally in the fight against terrorism, " he said.
If progress can be made, this curious discovery may turn out to be a powerful ally in the fight against global warming.
Mali is seen by many Western governments as a crucial ally in the fight against the regional affiliate offshoot of al Qaeda.
Syria has since become the PLO's ally in its fight against Israel.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden similarly offered his condolences, and hailed the former leader as an important ally in the fight against terror.
At that time President Musharraf had become a valued US ally in the fight against al-Qaeda and was making peace with nuclear-armed rival India.
Russia is now an American ally in the war against terrorism.
Out of nine countries and the United Nations, Americans overwhelming viewed Great Britain as the United States most reliable ally in the war against terrorism, with Canada, Spain and Israel closely behind.
Zenobia and her husband, Radamisto, remain steadfast under threat of death and destruction, however, and when Tiridate's ally Tigrane finally turns against him, for his own good, the tyrant sees the error of his ways.
The general's position as loyal ally in the fight against global terror was further cemented this week with the arrest in Pakistan of Abu Zubaydah, thought to be the third-ranking member of the al-Qaeda group.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is leader of the Trinamool Congress party, another major Congress ally, is also against the decision to open up India's retail sector but whether her party would help defeat the government remains unclear.
But the more moderate Mr Arias stood against his former ally during the presidential elections in 2000.
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As recently as November, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte called Musharraf an "indispensable ally" in the struggle against terrorism.
Not so with Pakistan, a new, if unsteady, ally of America in the war against terror.
The two are friends, but Mr Jereissati is a Cardoso ally, while Mr Gomes stood against the president in 1998.
"Turkey supports the United States as a responsible ally and friend in its struggle against terrorism, " said Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit.
The United States has criticized the Russian move against Georgia, its ally, as "disproportionate" and demanded a cease-fire, to which French President Nicolas Sarkozy said both sides agreed late Tuesday.
Former president and one-time ally Viktor Yushchenko and others have testified against her in the court case.
Kibaki is close ally of the US in the war against Islamic terror.
Russia has refused to support U.N. sanctions against Syria, its longtime ally.
Berezovsky made headlines last year after losing what has been called one of the most expensive private lawsuits in history against a former friend and ally, Russian magnate Roman Abramovich.
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He is believed to have been in serious financial difficulties after running up huge legal fees in recent years, including what was reportedly Britain's biggest-ever divorce settlement and a losing lawsuit against a former friend and ally, Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich.
Saleh, while unpopular with many Yemenis, has been an ally of the United States in the war against terrorists, particularly al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
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