allying

News stories like this one at Vox expressed the consensus view that we were now allying with Assad.

Allying themselves with the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, some Lebanese Christians are standing their ground against ISIS.

But Obama resists allying with them, and mostly for the right reasons (and so as not to anger the Saudis).

By allying himself with Iran hawks, Obama is getting the Iran-Syria dynamic exactly wrong.

In saying this, the former Bush official was effectively allying himself with the Obama administration position.

The chief follows his vengeance alone, he will know how to attain it without allying himself to one of his foes to get it.

The Arabian influence, allying itself to philosophy, was henceforth productive of other than military results.

Southey's remark that he could only succeed by allying himself with some religious fanaticism was just to the point.

Hardly could they have expected shelter and protection from the king who was allying his own family with the house of Ahab.

The circumstances which succeeded his allying himself with France fall not within my province to detail.