(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.
Turncoat
Definition:
(n.) One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Messina Denaro was also part of the gang that in 1993 snatched Giuseppe di Matteo, the 11-year-old son of a turncoat.
(2) Photograph: Mimi Mollica for the Guardian Antonino Vaccarino, a sprightly, bespectacled 68-year-old, today runs a small cinema in the back streets of town, but once served as mayor before being jailed for five years for mafia membership – on the basis, he claims, of false accusations made by a turncoat.
(3) Several members of his unit expressed dismay on Monday that a man they considered a turncoat would be hailed as a hero instead of being punished for allegedly abandoning his post and indirectly causing the death of other soldiers.
(4) Is new Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull already a climate change turncoat?
(5) And now St Vince of Cable has been busted down from visionary analyst of recession to turncoat enabler of George Osborne's austerity measures.
(6) "We have never found one, but many turncoats have spoken of them.
(7) With another Tory MP announcing that he will be leaving the Commons and pointedly wishing Carswell luck – the turncoat seeming more secure in his position, not less – others may see a brighter future with Farage.
(8) The right can’t forgive the Lib Dems for what it sees as their halo-polishing sanctimony; to the left they’re bedroom-tax enablers, tuition-fee turncoats, the sort of chancers who marched against the Iraq war only to turn around in power and vote to bomb Syria.
(9) Although embarrassing at the time, it helpfully portrayed Gove as a reluctant, rather than calculating, turncoat.
(10) Quite frankly, I think both positions are irresponsible.” Trudeau’s search for a disappearing middle ground met disaster earlier this week when Toronto Liberals rejected Eve Adams – a Tory turncoat the leader had hoped to nominate as one of his own candidates.
(11) In the case of the country’s far-right scene – whose membership the BfV estimates to number 23,850 as of last year – these informants are not simply turncoats who make some money on the side by giving tips to police.
(12) Prosecutors have also sought permission to seize the assets of entrepreneur Carmelo Patti, a former owner of the Valtur holiday village group, who has been accused by turncoats of being a front man for Messina Denaro.