The White House and its allies then accuse the Democrats of irresponsibly undermining the war on terror.

This led to further conflict when allies of Ormond accused St. Leger of deliberately sending Ormond into danger.

Even former allies accused him of playing politics at the expense of the increasingly fragile authority of Russia's central Government.

The governor's allies accused her of self-promotion; she called it a mistake.

Sun and its allies have accused Microsoft of undercutting their effort to build a standard to compete with Windows that runs on a variety of hardware platforms.

Former friends and allies now accuse each other of links to organized crime.

Then Milošević's allies accused Stambolić for acting like a dictator by trying to shut up the Belgrade Communist Party.

The US and its allies accuse Tehran of seeking to develop a nuclear weapon.

For their part, Mr. Jospin's allies quickly accused the Chirac camp of exploiting the acts of a deranged killer for political purposes.

In the days since the elections, Mr. Allawi and his allies have publicly accused the Shiite coalition of vote fraud.