That's great news for Microsoft, which is counting on Dell to be one of its biggest allies.

They've got to know that as Israel's biggest ally we'd come to their aid.

Our biggest ally was the poor economy, when there wasn't a building boom going on.

So it might seem odd that environmental groups have become the farmers' biggest allies in their effort to win state approval for raising milk prices.

It may turn out that big corporations, eager for more flexibility to hire and fire, will be his biggest ally.

Among their biggest allies are employers, large and small, who want assurances that they will continue to have that labor pool.

The Baltic states are defenseless against an invasion without the help of a bigger and stronger ally.

Or should it fight the judge, thereby protecting Microsoft from more severe restrictions, and, in effect, becoming its biggest ally?

Even Cubs fans - his biggest allies - had begun to turn on him.

The weather has been his biggest ally the last week.