He'd been treating Morth like a friend who sniffs white powder: a dubious ally.

You will leave one ship behind; you may retain the others to convey your troops and those of your dubious allies away from our shores.

Still, he journeyed to Iran to praise the shah, a dubious ally.

Many dubious allies were swayed by this, and it enhanced the image Alp was so laboriously forming among the various Steppe peoples: his inevitable supremacy.

He had never before seen this supposedly dubious ally, but he thought him a man to be valued, and lost only with grief.

The Air Force's excessive dependence on short-range fighters also forces Washington to cut deals with dubious allies for bases near shifting combat zones.

His flat heads spread wide, giving him binocular effect, the better to study his dubious ally and possible enemy.

Other dubious "allies" include Pakistan, the Central Asian dictatorships and China.

Because there were still more battles ahead with a dubious ally?