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.