In the past, keeping Israel close has allowed the army to cosy up to America.
And he has started to cosy up to several left-wing mayors whose ambitions he used to mock.
Of late Taiwan has seen the Americans trying to cosy up to China.
Chinese hawks are particularly worried that America might be trying to cosy up to India in order to contain Chinese power in the region.
Russia, which had been attempting to cosy up to Europeans in the hope of presenting a hostile common front to America, was told to back off.
And this time Hamas's leaders in exile are keen to cosy up to the new Egyptian government, mindful that Syria's turmoil may force them out of Damascus.
How Mr Miliband and his front bench team will handle that giant - tame it, provoke it or cosy up to it - remains to be seen.
Peregrine's swashbuckling style and its willingness to cosy up to even the least pleasant governments notably Myanmar's military junta and North Korea's communists have left it with plenty of detractors.
Some even think that Germany (which has moved its capital east to Berlin) will in future want to cosy up to the new EU members to its east and south, in particular Poland and that this will inevitably weaken its relations with France.
This is why Flemings, for instance, is trying to cosy up closer to its sister company, Jardine Fleming, in which it has a 50% stake.
There was little surprise that, over the last week, Labour intensified its attacks on Fine Gael as it battled for a coalition place only to cosy up again to its would-be partner in government in the last few days, as if to prove to undecided voters it could form a stable administration.
George Osborne and Ed Balls had to cosy up on the sofa on the Andrew Marr programme this weekend.
In the warmer months, take a seat on the wide jasmine-scented veranda, while in winter it is divine to cosy up inside by the open fire.
The opening shot came in 1975 when fixed commissions on securities issues were abolished in America, opening the cosy world of stockbroking up to competition.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the first minister would rather "cosy up than stand up to Rupert Murdoch" and accused him of a "grubby deal" with the media tycoon.
The only similarity with the Austrian populist he is prepared to concede is that they have both built up right-wing parties which have stood up to the cosy interests bred by long-term coalition politics.
Economics graduate Naoise Nunn recognised a public need to rip up the "cosy consensus" of the status quo and offer Dubliners some robust debate to sink their teeth into.
By the end of 2006, however, this cosy banking market will be shaken up by China's commitments to the World Trade Organisation.
On January 19th his cabinet was due to approve an extensive package of measures designed to free up markets and increase competition in a country where cosy cartels have long been the norm.
Further cuts in public spending appear to have been shelved, moves towards more government decentralisation are meeting resistance, and senior government employees are up in arms at plans to prevent them from being parachuted into cosy retirement jobs in industries they formerly regulated.
To Bassa, we are still in the 1970s: British Airways is nationalised, facing little competition and ever ready to do a cosy deal with the unions knowing the taxpayer will pick up the tab.
If banks chose to get this extra liquidity by buying bonds, they would end up owning government debt equivalent to about 60% of British GDP an unhealthily cosy arrangement.
Camp is often set up close to turquoise pools and lakes, and travellers carry everything they need in large packs, including cosy sleeping bags to cope with the frigid nights.
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