reliable ally

collocation in English

meaningsofreliableandally

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reliable
adjective
uk
/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/us
/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/
Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way ...
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ally
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæl.aɪ/us
/ˈæl.aɪ/
a country that has agreed officially to give help and support to another one, especially during ...
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(Definition ofreliableandallyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Technocratic language may thus have led working women to see the colonial state as at least a somewhatreliableallyin a difficult struggle to plan their families.
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We used to be the mostreliableallyin that partnership.
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Here is a friendly country, with a friendly people, which might really be areliableallyin time of trouble.
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We shall defend our national interests and advance western values at the same time by being areliableallyand trusted partner.
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Is it not better to spend slightly less each year, have a sound, stable economy and so be areliableally?
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It is a traditional andreliableallyand an economic partner of major importance both at regional level and in terms of the global economy.
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I hope we do not underestimate the influence we can bring to events if we are areliableally.
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British interests demand that we should be a respected andreliableallyand a country strong enough to help solve the difficulties that beset the world.
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He offers to listen to every idea suggested, and he is areliableallyto the animals.
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He always appears with his rear end sticking out of whatever he is working on, but is always areliableallywhenever he appears.
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Formerly areliableally, it has increasingly become the state's most severe institutional critic.
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This makes him areliableallyto the animals, albeit a human.
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Smith (1996) further referred to the idea of alliance reliability and concluded that nations with unreliable allies are more likely to surrender if attacked than are nations with reliable allies.
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We really do need to find reliable allies.
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They will confirm or deny our value as sound and reliable allies and partners in the world.
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But our latest type engines and airframes are something which foreign powers should not get unless we are certain they are going to be reliable allies.
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