That would not only deprive The Shadow of his sole ally in this den; it would produce Myra's immediate death.

Gustav's sole ally was the city of Stralsund, and over the ensuing months, the situation did not improve.

Taiwan's arch-rival China is North Korea's sole major ally.

Britain, after all, is still the most reliable, and often sole, ally of the United States.

In the subsequent wars of that decade, Comita was the sole ally of the Genoese.

Nor does the Bush administration have a problem with using Britain - its sole ally of any military significance - as a prop to support its agenda.

Being the sole remaining powerful ally of North Korea, China continued to supply the rogue state with food and oil, as well as financial aid.

A year later, an equally bitter falling-out with his youngest son, Ronald, his sole ally in the original dispute, deepened the destruction.

The electorate of Saxony would be Prussia's sole German ally.

In April 1586, having returned to Roanoke, he finally ended his good relations with the English, leaving Manteo as the colonists' sole Indian ally.