America, its most important ally (and the deal's biggest backer), has taken Armenia's side.
King had also lost the ear of his most important ally, President Lyndon Johnson.
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So is this the end of a steady friendship between Turkey and its most important ally?
Turkey has been a very important ally, broadly speaking and in the effort to counter terrorism.
The United States has long been dedicated to the security of an important ally.
It has been an important ally in our efforts in those countries through the United Nations.
But like the UK and France, Poland has military punch above its weight and is an important ally.
That keeps the family in control, but gives it what could be an important ally, if everything works out.
Yulia Timoshenko, a volatile but important ally, had talked darkly about Mr Kuchma's fate if he did not co-operate.
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An important ally of hers is an Islamic organisation, some of whose leaders have been killed by a gang.
They are an important ally and we are greatly supportive of their security.
And depending on who you talk to, he's a pretty important ally of the United States in the war on terrorism.
We obviously cooperate very closely with Saudi Arabia, an important ally, and we appreciate the statements the Saudis put out yesterday.
And now we find out our most important ally, Britain, also had sufficient intelligence and had warned us in advance about AbdulMutallab.
But this is a vital and important relationship with an important ally.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden similarly offered his condolences, and hailed the former leader as an important ally in the fight against terror.
Kenya provides nearly 5, 000 troops to an African Union (AU) force in Somalia and is the UK's most important ally in East Africa, our correspondent says.
And I just can't see why they would have done that if they didn't think that he was pretty important ally in the war on terrorism.
Mr Powell does not have a counterweight to Mr Bolton in the Pentagon, and he is about to lose an important ally in the White House.
Australia places its security not only on its own self-reliant military forces, but on the strategic underpinnings provided by its most important ally, the United States.
Mr Fadhli was formerly an important ally of the president, Mr Saleh, and served in the upper house of parliament as a member of the ruling General People's Congress.
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Still, relations between Turkey and its most important ally have been dented by the affair, which is bound to be bad for the foreign investment that the country sorely needs.
But the challenge is how to have a good relationship with nearby Iran while avoiding antagonising the US - Georgia's most important ally - and the EU, which Georgia wants to join.
The Tuesday ultimatum comes just after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up a tour to coordinate Washington's response with Beijing, North Korea's most important ally, as well as with Seoul and Tokyo.
But Mr Kerry has been careful to praise Mr Blair, for he knows that the British prime minister will be a more important ally than the critics of the war in France and Germany.
This is particularly true insofar as such a decision would likely have very serious repercussions for the United States, for its most important ally in the Middle East, Israel, and for the strategic relationship between them.
The echoes of his Cairo speech seemed very faint indeed as neither Obama nor Mohammed Morsy, Egypt's new president, seemed to know how to characterize the U.S. relationship with that country, once an important ally in the region.
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