1.   As America contemplates getting involved in military action elsewhere, it is now looking to longstanding allies in Europe to take the lead in peacekeeping and reconstructing Afghanistan.

2.   But Beijing also demonstrated that it has balanced its relations between its longstanding communist allies in the North and its newfound capitalist allies in South Korea.

3.   But most environmentalists regard Gore as a longstanding ally.

4.   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.

5.   He was a longstanding ally of the outgoing Senate majority leader, Ralph Marino, who was ousted last week by Bruno.

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

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

8.   Pakistan and the Central Asian nations are not steadfast longstanding allies as much as partners of convenience.

9.   While it was careful not to offend North Korea, its longstanding ally, the Chinese government ultimately granted the family passage out of China on humanitarian grounds.

10.   Australia is a longstanding ally of the United States.