take sides

I certainly could never take sides against one of my parents.

A time comes when a man has to take sides.

Even a week before the big game, people are already taking sides.

But of course, we live in a time when taking sides is what people do.

He was just having a good time, even if it involved taking sides.

Men began to speak out then and to take sides.

If your parents are fighting, try not to take sides.

I am not going to take sides in the debate today.

Jim felt as if even his mother had taken sides against him.

And they're not going to take sides or be very happy about it.

After the news hit the media, fans started taking sides.

"How will he feel if you take sides against his new friends, I wonder?"

You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other.

Peter and Michael knew we were having problems but they made it a point not to take sides or get involved.

A theme running through all four books is the question of taking sides.

He did not feel a need to take sides with world powers.

But at least ten of them just sat there, watching, not taking sides.

That makes it a matter between the people of the island and the national government, in which we've no right to take sides.

We do not have the right to take sides in this dispute.

A shot too soon, and the Federation would be taking sides.

It's like living in Ireland and trying not to take sides.

But as a business, without taking sides or contributing to the cause.

It was better business to abandon the problem and not take sides.

Leaders of the two groups said yesterday that they would not take sides.

Throughout the summer, as the book became available, scholars began to take sides.