Discord among longstanding allies is unsettling; big efforts are being made to dispel it.

China is a longstanding ally of Pakistan and is believed to have supplied the know-how that allowed the country to become a nuclear power.

Nor does the United States have longstanding military allies in the region.

It is a longstanding ally and lets America station troops there.

He is an aging gangster and longstanding ally of the Corleone crime family.

I hope the United States helps its longstanding ally in a time of need.

He must appease the new administration of a strong and longstanding British ally.

Will she be able to undo the harm and alienation that the Bush administration has wrought these last four years toward longstanding allies?

North Korea, a longstanding ideological ally, has had increasingly testy relations with China in recent years.

But the US president's message suggested that Washington will go on supporting its longstanding ally for now.