As Ally's character responds to her awkward work situation and life's other minor tribulations, the viewer is pulled into Ally's private thoughts through flashbacks and fantasy sequences.
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Although a country might, under certain circumstances, choose to rely to some extent on another country for military intelligence, this is less likely to be the case when the second country is doing its monitoring not as an ally, but as an impartial or neutral observer, as would be the status of any U.S. forces deployed on the Golan under an Israeli-Syrian agreement.
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.
He is conservative, a close ally of the former pope, but not seen as an ally of the Italians who run the Curia.
Russia cannot be treated both as a NATO ally and as an enemy, France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy said this week.
Most Brits suspect that Tony Blair's eventual successor, Gordon Brown, won't be as firm and steadfast an ally as has been the current prime minister.
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He too has the satisfaction of seeing his country publicly valued as an ally in Washington.
The coalition's leaders reckon that in Kosovo they have clearly proved Germany's reliability as an ally.
But America later recruited Israel as an ally, and this suited the Israelis just fine.
It once counted Ferdinand Marcos, the dictatorial president of the Philippines, as an ally.
Both have looked to Chavez as a source of inspiration and as an ally regarding specific policies.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Yemen signed on as an ally in the U.S.-led war on terror.
With the ever-adaptable Adam Smith as his ally, Mr O'Hara is sceptical that the change-resistant definition is meaningful.
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Landowners would now have the state as an ally rather than an enemy.
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Quinn, a leading Democratic candidate to succeed Bloomberg next year, has often been perceived as an ally of his.
They see the UK as an ally over free trade and open markets.
Observers say the US finds it hard to criticise a country which is seen as an ally in a volatile, oil-rich region.
But set against all this was Mr Thieu's disadvantage as an ally.
Yet Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and their cabinet colleagues consistently represent UNIFIL as an ally and have worked fastidiously to strengthen it.
He was known locally as an ally of Refayet Ullah, the longtime mayor of Savar, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
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The Obama administration is said to link Britain's value as an ally to its weight in the EU: hence Mr Brown's new respect for Europe.
In Iraq, there are certainly a lot of people who want to improve the system, who actually look to the World Bank as an ally in doing so.
The Obama administration values the European Union as an ally that largely shares its vision, and acts with it in the Middle East, over Iran and North Africa.
But they won't win Indiana by nominating a dull centrist who echoes Bayh's wrong stances on economic policy, or who tries to run as an ally of President Obama.
Poland thinks it can win Spain as an ally if it argues for phasing out (rather than cutting off) funds to regions now receiving them, alongside payments to new members.
Working in his favor: Clicker is not seen as a threat the way a Google TV is but rather as an ally for the networks because it navigates rather than hosts the content.
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ISRAEL'S ABILITY to embrace the Vatican as an ally and so advance an alliance with the Church regarding Jerusalem is constrained from its perspective by the legacy of the Church's behavior during the Holocaust.
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