Translation of "Political allies" in German

It was later discovered that he allowed illegal logging on Crown lands by political allies.

Cafébabel: Who are your political allies?

The police arrested Bruhn and some of his political allies.

Laboulaye's political allies supported the call, as did descendants of the French contingent in the American Revolutionary War.

Laboulaye's political allies supported the call, as did descendants of the French contingent in the American Revolutionary War .

This was the European response to countries which, by dint of their stage of institutional and economic development, are now trading partners as well as political allies.

I would like to know how long the Commission will accept part of the EU's accession support to Turkey being used to reward the political allies of the governing party while ethnic and religious minorities are discriminated against, as a recent investigation has shown.

To be precise, I expect that Zimbabwe's Foreign Minister will not be invited to the EU-SADEC meeting of Foreign Ministers in Copenhagen in November, and we should make it clear to our partners in southern Africa that European money is not intended to finance an African renaissance or a new NEPAD programme of African development for President Mugabe and his political allies.

As one Argentine friend explained, the government fired the statisticians who had tried to provide accurate measures of inflation and replaced them with political allies who would produce artificially low numbers.

One puzzling and often overlooked feature of the France that elected Nicolas Sarkozy as its new president, and that is now poised to give his political allies a powerful parliamentary mandate, is its mix of private optimism and public pessimism.

Boris Nemtsov, leader of Solidarity movement, who had been caught cursing at his political allies, supported this idea.

Musharraf and his political allies tried to adjust to this new reality, but their patience ran out when the Supreme Court took up petitions against Musharraf’s decision to run for president.

One of his close political allies recently declared that should the United Nations Security Council approve military intervention in Syria, France “could envision” participating in that effort.

But he also hired old friends and political allies – many of whom did not have experience in development – and sealed himself off from his staff, alienating the very people whose support he needed.

When confronted by an overwhelming worldwide scientific consensus on the contribution of human activity to global warming over the past century, the industry and its political allies follow the tobacco road.

One type chooses, for non-economic and non-scientific reasons, a political stance and a set of political allies, and twiddles and tunes his or her assumptions until they yield conclusions that fit their stance and please their allies.

Priority was given here to protecting workers and product users, albeit industry did succeed in securing rather powerful political allies to restrict the scope of the legislation.

Since then Georgian policy in particular has been seen as jeopardising the status quo in the South Caucasus, which Russia under President Putin, and his political allies among the current leaders of Armenia and the three breakaway regions, have in practice come to terms.