What's the difference between leal and loyal?

Leal


Definition:

  • (a.) Faithful; loyal; true.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It fills me with hope of change.” But, as local historian Eusebio Leal Spengler led the Obamas through the deserted streets, the tour also hinted at the dangers of lopsided tourist development that could leave the stunningly beautiful city centre feeling like a permanent theme park if mishandled.
  • (2) The psychopharmacological data collected in the present work leal to classify this new thienodiazepine derviative within the fram of tranquilizers of the benxodaizapine type.
  • (3) Guilherme Leal is a Brazilian business and social entrepreneur and Jochen Zeitz is director of Kering and chairman of the board’s sustainable development committee.
  • (4) Tamayo is the third Mexican referenced in Avena to be executed by Texas, following Jose Ernesto Medellin in 2008 and Humberto Leal Garcia in 2011.
  • (5) Tamayo would be the third Mexican referenced in Avena to be executed in Texas, following José Medellín and Humberto Leal García, who was put to death in 2011 despite efforts from the US and Mexican governments to stay his execution because he was denied timely consular rights.

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.

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