(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.
Obeisance
Definition:
(n.) Obedience.
(n.) A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kim can be expected to continue to pay obeisance to North Korea’s original governing concept of juche , self-reliance.
(2) He used to sit in the bath shrinking his jeans.” On both sides of the Atlantic, politicians would now offer obeisance to pop stars.
(3) Many guests were the Queen's "kissing cousins", which happily dispensed with protocol over who should pay obeisance to whom.
(4) It’s a way for them to pay obeisance to the NRA without changing the world as it is.” Texas senator John Cornyn, the author of the Republican alternative to the FBI watch list bill, took issue with Schumer’s characterization, deeming it “incredibly ignorant”.
(5) Blair’s obeisance to corporate power enabled the vicious and destructive policies the coalition now pursues .
(6) Fox Business Network has been spared having to abide by the Ginsberg demands, partly perhaps because of the strong obeisance shown by senior Republicans towards Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of Fox News and Fox Business Network.
(7) The industry makes obeisances to the ideals of “diversity” and “representation”, but many at the sharp end of abuse argue that it has so far done little to help them or to learn from their experiences.
(8) Both Blair and Brown abased themselves by being so obeisant to the Australian, sorry, American, godfather; but Brown, under the beneficent, and crucial, influence of Ed Balls, resisted the siren voices calling upon him to sign up for the single currency quite independently of Murdoch's propaganda.
(9) This obeisance to a symbol has all but destroyed the US anti-war movement – Obama's singular achievement.
(10) Not yet, though it has its rituals – attendees of the conferences check their cynicism in at the door; standing ovations at TED seem, at times, like mandatory acts of obeisance rather than spontaneous moments of appreciation – and it's not far off De Botton's description of the Catholic church: "collaborative, multinational, branded and highly disciplined".
(11) And note, more lightly, with due obeisance to the cab-rank principle, that Hunt's QC, whose arguments were said by the judge to have a "too-narrow view of the public interest", was Hugh Tomlinson, chairman and silkiest silk of Hacked Off .