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Allies

Ally \Al*ly"\, n.; pl. Allies. [See Ally, v.]

  1. A relative; a kinsman. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  2. One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.

    The English soldiers and their French allies.
    --Macaulay.

  3. Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.

    Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally.
    --Buckle.

  4. Anything akin to another by structure, etc.

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allies

n. (ally English) vb. (en-third-person singularally)

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Allies (band)

Allies is a Christian rock band. They released six albums during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Allies (song)

"Allies" is a song recorded by the rock band Heart. It was released in 1983 as the second and final single from the band's seventh studio album Passionworks. The song was written by Jonathan Cain, best known as a member of the rock band Journey. "Allies" was the final single released by Heart on the Epic Records label. The band's relationship with the label was sour at the time, and the Wilson sisters claim that Epic did not properly promote their final two albums on the label. "Allies" is a power ballad which begins with a subdued piano line before building into a metal style ballad complete with power guitar chords and booming drums. The song peaked at number eighty-three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and stands as Heart's lowest-charting U.S. single. The band rebounded two years later, finding their biggest success yet as they joined Capitol Records.

Allies (Crosby, Stills & Nash album)

Allies is the eighth album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, their second concert document, and released on Atlantic Records in 1983. A live concert clip for "Wasted on the Way" received some rotation on MTV and VH1 at the time, as did the single "War Games." It peaked #43 on the Billboard 200, and is currently out of print.

Allies (Fred Frith album)

Allies (Music for Dance Volume 2) is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is the second of a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made.

Allies (disambiguation)

Allies is a term referring to individuals, groups or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose.

Allies may also refer to:

  • Allies of World War I
  • Allies of World War II
  • French and British forces in the Crimean War
  • Straight allies, people who identify as heterosexual and who support equal civil rights for the LBGTQ community
  • Allies (band), a popular 1980s era Contemporary Christian music group featuring Bob Carlisle
  • Allies (Crosby, Stills & Nash album), 1983
  • Allies (Fred Frith album), 1996
  • "Allies" (Stargate Atlantis), a Stargate Atlantis episode
  • "Allies" (song), the sixth track on the album Passionworks by Heart
  • The Allies (Australian rules football), a representative Australian rules football team
  • Allies (2014 film), a 2014 British war film
Allies (Star Wars novel)

Allies is a novel written by Christie Golden that was released on May 25, 2010. It is the fifth novel in the Fate of the Jedi series and published as a hardcover. The paperback is set to be released on March 22, 2011. It takes place in the Star Wars expanded universe in 43.5 ABY.

Allies (2014 film)

Allies is a 2014 British Independent World War II film written by Jeremey Shelden and directed by Dominic Burns. Allies was released on 1 November 2014 in the UK and is distributed by eOne.

Usage examples of "allies".

Moreover, the vast logistical efforts of the Allies had been possible only because of the enormous supplies of oil available to them.

Moreover, in the end, Saddam devised a strategy that took advantage of our own missteps and the shortcomings of our allies to undermine the policy and help speed its demise.

Even if the United States and its allies did not believe that it was the sanctions that were depriving the Iraqi people, the noise from the Arab world and within the United Nations was getting too loud.

Our Arab allies reassured Washington in its preferred course of action by promising us that Saddam was just bluffing.

Many of our allies proved perfidious, feckless, or outright duplicitous.

On some occasions, the Saudis and other regional allies have indicated that they simply would not support a U.

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia continue to support the NFZs only because the southern zone provides vital warning of an Iraqi attack, and Turkey puts up with the northern zone out of deference to its American allies and fear that Washington would retaliate regarding other key Turkish interests (Cyprus, its application for European Union membership, and so on) if it did not.

Even our British allies are tiring of the commitment to the NFZs (the French bailed out several years ago) and would like to see us drastically scale back our sorties.

At the time, this was an extremely propeace position and was seen as a betrayal by Saddam's erstwhile allies among the Arab radicals—Syria and Libya.

As if to convince him that America and its allies had turned against him, on April 10, British customs agents seized components of Gerald Bull's supergun as they were being shipped out to Iraq.

Similarly, who knows how many casualties the United States and its allies would have been willing to tolerate—although before the war, polls showed strong support even if a war resulted in 10,000 American casualties, and the administration never wavered.

Saddam believed that the United States and its coalition allies would have little stomach for a protracted struggle with him and would soon be distracted by other matters.

The upshot of the meeting was that Ambassador Albright was dispatched on a trip to a half-dozen key Security Council members and Arab allies, along with Parris and Riedel, to make the case for staying the course on containment and gauge the reaction of her audiences.

It also gave him the chance to drive the CIA and its oppositionist allies out of northern Iraq, reassert the regime's authority over its wayward northern provinces, and demonstrate his strength to the People of Iraq.

However, by exposing the splits within the Security Council and among the coalition allies, the crisis had further weakened the U.