I respect her - I welcome her as a friend.

His persistence finally won them over, he said, and now they welcome him as "an old friend."

It was almost as if he were being welcomed as a friend.

Try as she might, she never could truly welcome her periods as an old friend.

This time the miner was welcomed, not as a stranger, but as a friend of long standing.

It doesn't matter what your color, religion or sexual orientation is... everywhere you will be welcomed as a friend.

Some neighborhoods welcome it as an old friend.

So death could be welcomed as a friend, granting the lovers eventual union.

The door was opened to him by Geronimo who welcomed him as an old friend.

I saw on this morning's television that Chirac was welcomed in China as a friend.