Abruptly abandoning the U.S.' less-than-democratic fair-weather allies could play into the hands of our Bin Ladenesque enemies.
George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, clung for too long to his fair-weather formula about sharing the proceeds of non-existent growth.
Facing the republic's worst-ever economic crisis, will Germans show themselves fair-weather democrats?
At the same time, Romney is a fair-weather friend of coal.
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The Saudis remain at best fair-weather friends to the US, while Israel's strength or weakness directly impacts US national security and geopolitical interests.
But yes, some people who have been fair-weather friends, no doubt at those Krug and shepherd's pie parties, will steal away into the night.
If you hesitate before signing on to the idea of imported science, it could be because you are only a fair-weather believer in free trade.
Our plan was to take a six-day jaunt along the Har Ki Doon Trail, a 50-mile round-trip said to be ideally suited to the fair-weather trekker.
What does seem predictable, however, is that at some point these arms will wind up in the hands of people who are not even our fair-weather friends.
Mr Brown vigorously rejects one criticism that, these days, is sometimes aimed at New Labour, the pro-market social-democratic force of which, along with Tony Blair, his predecessor as prime minister, and Lord Mandelson, now the business secretary, he was a progenitor: that it was a fair-weather creed.
It could be that these fair-weather (if not actually false) friends have been encouraged in their intransigence by State Department interlocutors many of whom appear to share Franco- Russian-Chinese hostility to the Bush goal of regime change in Iraq to believe that the President will accede to efforts to dumb-down the U.S.-drafted resolution.
It could be that these fair-weather (if not actually false) friends have been encouraged in their intransigence by State Department interlocutors -- many of whom appear to share Franco- Russian-Chinese hostility to the Bush goal of regime change in Iraq -- to believe that the President will accede to efforts to dumb-down the U.S.-drafted resolution.
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