What's the difference between allegiance and loyal?

Allegiance


Definition:

  • (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.

Loyal


Definition:

  • (a.) Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance.
  • (a.) True to any person or persons to whom one owes fidelity, especially as a wife to her husband, lovers to each other, and friend to friend; constant; faithful to a cause or a principle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is also young voter "Mike" in New York and "Alice," an African-American from Michigan, who underline the need to re-awaken Obama's most loyal supporters from 2008.
  • (2) Unions warned it could lead to a system where civil servants were loyal to their political masters rather than the taxpayer.
  • (3) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
  • (4) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
  • (5) Few have joined loyal supporters such as Labour peer Lord Charles Allen, of Global Radio, and former minister Lord Myners in singing the party’s praises.
  • (6) By now, some MPs loyal to Corbyn had got wind of a plot to topple him that was more serious than the Hodge and Coffey no-confidence vote, with one claiming there was a Whatsapp messaging conversation among frontbenchers known as the Birthday Group.
  • (7) After 11.00, it became clear that not a single unit of the armed forces in Santiago had remained loyal to the president.
  • (8) The unremitting assault on Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces over recent days is certainly testament to that.” In a week of what residents have described as the worst airstrike campaign since the start of the civil war in Syria , forces loyal to Assad have begun the early stages of a ground offensive aimed at reclaiming eastern Aleppo, which has been under opposition control since 2012.
  • (9) After a week of the most intensive bombardment of the five-year war, forces loyal to the Syrian leader are in control of most of the countryside immediately to the north.
  • (10) He fizzes with energy and ideas, and when asked to describe himself, says “loyal, workaholic”.
  • (11) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yemen government ground forces and Saudi-led air strikes attack Houthi militias The blockade – which is also being enforced in the air and on land – has choked a fragile economy already staggering under the impact of a six-month civil conflict pitting Yemeni forces loyal to the President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, now exiled in Riyadh, against Houthi rebels allied to his predecessor and rival, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
  • (13) Michael loyally accompanied his father back, although he said he had tried to dissuade him many times from returning because he did not want him to die in prison.
  • (14) Grass's new collection of poetry, Eintagsfliegen , published in Germany last week, describes Vanunu as a "role model and hero of our time" who "hoped to serve his country by helping to bring the truth to light", and calls on Israelis to "recognise ... as righteous" the man "who remained loyal to his country all those years", according to German reports .
  • (15) I don’t want to say they are not loyal French citizens, but there is a feeling being here that they are able to act and live like Jews, unlike in France, where they have rights as individuals but not as a group.” Among those recently choosing to emigrate to Israel, two groups have dominated: young single people under 35 and pensioners over 66.
  • (16) His friends and contacts reflected the broad span of his interests, from Winston Churchill, whose History of the English-Speaking Peoples Briggs proofread as a young don, to Chairman Mao’s loyal lieutenant Zhou Enlai and J Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atom bomb.
  • (17) Tellingly, loyal peasants relate how Guzmán chartered aircraft to take their children to the state capital for medical treatment, like a good old-school mafia don.
  • (18) That depends upon print revenue trajectories, but it will happen.” Murdoch said News Corp, by contrast, was loyal to print.
  • (19) Even if the prospect of David Cameron fighting the corner of once-loyal working-class Labour voters sounds absurd, that's what will surely define tomorrow night's debate: egged on by tomorrow morning's headlines (and get ready for a real peach from the Sun), the moneyed Old Etonian carpeting the son of the manse for his failure to understand the concerns of ordinary folk.
  • (20) But the institutions suffer from curricula being abandoned due to funding cuts, unqualified – but party-loyal – lecturers, and shoddily built institutions.