The teacher's union has found an unlikely 'ally' in the company. [=the company supports the position that the union has taken and this was not expected]
He'll even admit that he's hoping to 'ally' himself 'to' a wealthy family by marriage.
countries 'allying' themselves 'with' the EU
(..) They would wield its power, but our ally knows its workings as they never will. How bad is it? That's the problem, sir. We don't know. Dr Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract four hours ago. (..)2012 The Avengers