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ally English

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ally

Two countries are allies if they support, help, and defend each other. England and the United States have been allies for most of the last two centuries. France got involved in World War I because its ally, Russia, was involved. She's heading to Europe to talk with NATO allies about what message the West should send Russia. China remains North Korea's most powerful ally. We are looking for more chances to work closely with our friends and allies. Two people or groups can also be allies. We didn't like each other, but we had the same goals, so we became uneasy allies. His party, and its allies in the media, have helped him survive several political scandals. He could no longer protect even his closest allies. The enemy of my enemy is my ally. It's important to identify your key allies. An ally is anything that helps you. This little blue pill is your ally in the war against weight gain.

ally

If you ally yourself with someone, you become their ally. Some Indian groups allied themselves with the French, others with the English. During World War II, the United States was allied with Russia, but after the war, that changed. If two things are allied, they are related, are connected, or have many similarities. The bird was closely allied to the tits of England.

ally

a friendly nation an associate who provides cooperation or assistance he's a good ally in fight become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage He allied himself with the Communists

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Simple sentences

Germany was once an ally of Italy.
I'll remain your ally no matter what happens.
I want to be your ally, not your enemy.
An enemy of an enemy is not necessarily an ally.
Mary has always been my staunchest ally at work.
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
Let's ally ourselves to that group.
Ally loves playing with her twin sister Anne.
Algeria is an ally of Russia.

Movie subtitles

Find a real way. Then I will be your ally a thousand, even ten thousand times.
Me and Ally?
Ally.
Ally, though.
Marty, Ally's right.
It's Ally.
The Prince of Darkness is their ally and lends them supernatural power among the living and the dead.
I will be Caesar's wife and ally.
As a friend and ally of Rome?
And as a friend and ally of Egypt.
Octavian would be a very good friend and ally of Egypt.
Was Fletcher Christian at this time still your friend and ally?
I have a powerful ally.
Thursby was Miss O'Shaughnessy's ally.
Ally nuts?
But we have one ally.
To the ground, boor. I'm a Duke and an ally of France!
An ally?
She's to be used by our ally, Don Julian.
But a week ago you were already our ally.
He's our only ally.
Rather, we should make of a man's dignity our foremost ally and caress it, soothe it, talk fondly to it and treat it like our dearest toy.
In that case, your main ally is not your own assets but the married woman's marital ennui.
I bring the Ethiopian king and his sister in friendship, as an ally to guard our southern gates.
Either you are going to listen to me, or in precisely four seconds. which is the time it will take me to walk through that door. you will be left without an ally in the English-speaking world.
But unfortunately, the victory is never ally of haste and panic.
And I shall rule Persia as the ally of Alexander.
Then I will be your ally a thousand, even ten thousand times. Even when I was stuck on the floor in the dark inside of me, there was love.
I must be an equal, an ally, not an inferior. or an obedient and submissive wife.
I always did say hot tea was a womars best ally against the rain.
My neuralgia's about to strike with heartburn, an old ally, and so.
All right. If we are out to humiliate our brave Chinese ally in the newspapers of the world, we might as well make it a full battalion.
I had to write about everyday life in Germany, our past enemy and future ally.
It's hard to explain. A strange series of events has made him our ally.

News and current affairs

The Americans want full EU membership for Turkey--a longstanding NATO member and close American ally--while Europeans complain about the Turkish military's domestic political role.
All the details of the attack were provided in advance by the US, now Poland's NATO ally.
He was an indispensable ally of the West in the fight against Islamist terrorism, culminating in Ethiopia's military operation in neighboring Somalia in 2006.
As things stand in Saudi Arabia, the US administration has no credible ally for change outside of the existing regime.
In the end, America's position in the region strengthened after Egypt became a US ally and made peace with Israel.
As a result, cities in those countries were flattened and people killed not only by the Nazis, but also by their Soviet ally, which invaded Poland and supplied the Wehrmacht with the material it needed for its war against the West.
China views Russia as its strategic rear - and perhaps a base - in its escalating rivalry with the US (though not yet as an ally).
But Abe was also sending a message to Japan's main ally and defender, the United States.
Japan remains a model ally that hosts a large US troop presence, even paying for the upkeep of American forces on its soil.
Neither the Israeli government nor its intimate ally in the White House can be expected to applaud the Iraq Study Group's call for a repetition of that logic, for it contradicts everything the Bush administration has championed.
Here, Israel may come under growing pressure from its principal ally.
In this conflict, China has actually become something of a US ally.
This, together with the fact that China has cut lending to Russia since the Crimea invasion, suggests that, in the longer term, the Chinese envision Russia as a natural-resource vassal, not an equal ally.
The internet has provided ordinary Chinese with access to the real story as well as to a public voice, which means that they can be a powerful ally in efforts to effect change in the most populace nation on earth.
Poland as an ally of the US is not the real headache facing President Jacques Chirac or Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
As an American ally for 51 years, and as East Asia's third-largest economy, South Korea is entitled to be fully consulted on such decisions.
That strategic nightmare cost Israel and the US their closest ally in the region, one that was soon transformed into an implacable enemy.
There are also long-standing border disputes between China and India, and between India and China's ally, Pakistan.
Rather than becoming an ally, India is more likely to become one of the Asian countries that will tend to balance China's strategic rise.
Japan, America's treaty ally, has established military interoperability only with US forces.
Indeed, two recent developments may help anchor Kazakhstan as a Western ally.
In an updated lesson in realpolitik, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently was happy to count Pope Francis as an ally in opposing American military intervention in Syria.
Iran, for its part, has proclaimed Syria an indispensable ally, and is determined to prevent regime change there by all available means.
In this case, Berlusconi's forces could ally themselves with Pier Ferdinando Casini's centrist Catholic party, or work to form a coalition with their center-left adversary, the Democratic Party, led by Walter Veltroni.

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