11.   They have also taken positions on sexual issues that have made allies of the more conservative bishops in England, Australia and the United States.

12.   Yet President Bush and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, heads of their respective clans, are practical politicians accustomed to making allies where they find them.

13.   Dimitrov had tried to implement radical legal and economic reforms, which made his ally, an ethnic Turkish party, switch its support to the Socialists.

14.   FUNCINPEC can blame him for the genocide as it absolves and makes allies of his underlings.

15.   Her parents, who have lobbied intensely for her freedom, have made powerful allies on Capitol Hill.

16.   The Elian affair also made uncomfortable allies of the U.S. government and the Cuban government, both of whom sought to reunite Elian with his father.

17.   The Seattle episode leaves a body count of two Interpol agents and four Dutch buyers and makes uneasy allies of Stallone and Moore.

18.   They have made powerful allies in the U.S. Congress.

19.   We have broken out of republican isolation and made international allies, and we have moved the cause of nationalism forward.