(n.) The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.
(n.) Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.
Example Sentences:
(1) And when you said the pledge of allegiance in the morning, you had to look at those flags.
(2) Talking to clinicians at each of the three sites, it was evident that the vast majority felt no particular allegiance to the larger, merged organisation (SLHT) and, the majority wished to continue working on the individual site they had always worked, in the same manner as prior to the merger.
(3) Wilayat Sinai, a jihadi group that declared allegiance to Isis last autumn, attacked the town of Sheikh Zuwaid, a few miles from Egypt’s border with Gaza and Israel, on Wednesday morning.
(4) In fact, there are two – three if you count the recitation of the pledge of allegiance.
(5) It doesn't sound like the Express or the Star, already the most rightwing of titles, will be shifting allegiance soon, although Desmond claims, not very believably, that his papers' political stances are up to their editors.
(6) After two decades as a Guardian reader, I am seriously considering switching allegiance.
(7) The trial, originally expected to be staid, has exposed severe dysfunction within Bo's family and detailed the complicated tangle of allegiances and affairs that led to his downfall .
(8) His life peerage was awarded by former Conservative prime minister John Major but his allegiance has always been to the Labour party.
(9) She said he had offered no resistance when his headquarters was surrounded and then transferred his allegiance to the regional parliament in Crimea.
(10) Born into a Salvation Army family, Taylor became a "junior soldier" aged five, pledging allegiance to the charity – the organisation has a military-style structure – and by 16, she was a senior soldier.
(11) Even Derek Scott, a former senior economic adviser to Tony Blair, whose book, Off Whitehall, is largely antipathetic to the chancellor, cites Brown's strong sense of allegiance: "Gordon helped his people."
(12) At the same time, electrophysiological studies of LSO and its efferent target in the inferior colliculus, along with the strictly contralateral deficits in sound localization resulting from unilateral lesions above the level of the superior olives, indicated that hemifield allegiance was largely maintained (though reversed) at the midbrain.
(13) The group, once considered the world’s deadliest terror organisation, was reported to have links with al-Qaida, but in March 2015 announced its allegiance to Islamic State .
(14) Unlike being able to charge for a physical newspaper, where consumers tend to have an allegiance to one publication, online choice is a key facet with web users consuming numerous newspaper and internet websites, she argued.
(15) Moni Varma, head of the rice firm Veetee Rice, who has switched allegiance from Labour to the Conservatives, said the proposals may prompt some wealthy businesspeople to take flight – but that he would remain in the UK.
(16) Nigeria's oil pipelines are battleground for brittle democracy Read more In addition Nigeria’s ethnic, geographic, and religious differences can prove explosive, and it’s unlikely that Buhari – a Muslim from northern Nigeria – will treat the southern Christian Niger Delta militants differently to the Islamic Boko Haram , who this week declared their allegiance to Isis.
(17) "After a period of relative generational predictability, we're now seeing big changes in the political allegiances of different generations," the Ipsos MORI study concludes.
(18) While his political allegiances led to the ransacking of his office in 1965, following the coup d'etat the year before that brought the military to power under General Castelo Branco, Niemeyer remained a well known and popular figure among ordinary Brazilians, to whom he was always "Oscar", and evidently adored, although younger generations of Brazilian architects have inevitably felt hidden in his shadow.
(19) If Gleeson could be the guest speaker, how then could it be described as a “Liberal party event?” Even if it was a party occasion, the commissioner asks: “how does that demonstrate that the speaker has an affinity with a partiality for or a persuasion or allegiance or alignment to the Liberal party or lent it support?” If the fair minded lay observer (FMLO), who in this instance is the judge of apprehended bias, had an idea of Heydon’s record on the high court they might get a whiff of partiality to a particular world view, or philosophy.
(20) At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America, and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.
Fealty
Definition:
(n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.
(n.) Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blair pressed privatisation, deregulation, outsourcing, PFI, demutualisation and more in fealty to the market and the global corporate world.
(2) What better way for the bowibu to prove their fealty and regain the young leader’s favour than the spectacular elimination of his disloyal sibling?
(3) An intelligence and security committee that goes into brief private session, only to emerge blinking into the daylight with protestations of apparent fealty to the security services, is a poor substitute for grown-up scrutiny.
(4) Cameron has brought him in to review social mobility, and he owes no fealty to Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, denizens of the enemy camp of yesteryear.
(5) Responding to a Guardian report that the British government had considered air strikes against the al-Shabaab militia, which has vowed fealty to al-Qaida, the Somali prime minister, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, said: "Targeted strikes against al-Qaida in Somalia we would welcome.
(6) Others confess through their mass rapes, choreographed murders and rational self-justifications a primary fealty to nihilism: that characteristically modern-day and insidiously common doctrine that makes it impossible for modern-day Raskolnikovs to deny themselves anything, and possible to justify anything.
(7) Shortly after regaining his freedom, he is believed to have sworn the bayat , the personal oath of fealty, to Bin Laden.
(8) Over the past 10 weeks, perhaps the greatest casualty of this undiscriminating fealty to Game of Thrones (and now to a lesser degree True Detective) is Showtime’s poignant, profound Victorian monster yarn, Penny Dreadful (the show’s finale aired Monday night in the US).
(9) His decisive break with Christianity and subsequent undying fealty to the Islamic empire clearly then occurred at the White House Easter prayer breakfast, where he welcomed the esteemed guests as his " brothers and sisters in Christ ".
(10) If Trump could win points there, just imagine what happened among the people who have no fealty to movement conservatism, who have nurtured a sustained rage at being betrayed or ignored by its bromides , who have been told that conservatism is good for them even as they have seen the middle class begin to crater around them like a suburban Florida neighborhood pockmarking with sinkholes during a long drought.
(11) Reporters are trained that they will be selected as scoop-receivers only if they demonstrate fealty to the agenda of official sources.
(12) The first two – "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" and "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" – come from a time when the Jews still believed in the existence of many gods but had sworn fealty to only one of them, their tribal "jealous" god.
(13) It's likely that religion's popularity is a product of emotion, fear of mortality and the unknown, and yes, fealty to tradition.
(14) The "hop store" bar at the St James Gate brewery now towers over the city like Mordor, reminding the residents below to pay fealty to the god Diageo.
(15) With his Freddy Krueger face and disagreeable fealty to a callow king, Clegane should be a clear-cut baddie, someone to hate just as much as spiteful nyaff Joffrey.
(16) Fealty to founding principles based on respect for human dignity strengthened and renewed a nation, he said.
(17) He criticised the intelligence and security committee for conducting an apparently cursory inquiry, saying that its decision to go "into brief private session, only to emerge blinking into the daylight with protestations of apparent fealty towards the security services is a very poor substitute for grown-up scrutiny.
(18) It seems that independence is a movement of Scotland's societal left, the part that used to profess undying fealty to Labour.
(19) But I don’t give added weight to the lives of innocent Americans as compared to the lives of innocent non-Americans, nor would I feel any special fealty to the US government as opposed to other governments when deciding what to publish … I have no objection to the process whereby the White House is permitted to give input prior to the publication of sensitive secrets.
(20) This is an example of how they demonstrate their loyalty, their fealty.” A spokeswoman for IHMS said: “IHMS refute the allegation that they have encouraged the AFP to target Dr Young.” “The AFP approached IHMS with a request to review an internal investigation conducted into the leak of protected health information.