(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.
Treacherous
Definition:
(a.) Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison was also made with cephalometric roentgenograms of a patient with Treacher Collins syndrome and of a patient with progeria.
(2) The clinical study of the major cranio-facial malformations such as Apert syndrome, Treacher-Collins syndrome, Blepharophimosis and Bilateral Cleft Palate patients, lead us to note a similarity of the orbito-palpebral region.
(3) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(4) They say an increasing number of “protracted refugees” living in centres in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq will attempt the treacherous journey to Europe because they cannot offer their families a life or a future in the camps.
(5) The thinktank added: “It will be interesting to watch next week how Mr Osborne navigates these treacherous waters and avoids the obstacles he constructed for himself.
(6) The power and versatility of these computer-imaging techniques are demonstrated by examining living subjects with major craniofacial dysmorphology (Treacher-Collins syndrome and unilateral coronal synostosis); an anthropoid osteological specimen (Gorilla); and a fossil mammal skull.
(7) Although the ferocity of the wind has eased, engineers have been struggling to restore electricity in conditions described as treacherous and worsening.
(8) May linked the situation in Calais directly to the refugee crisis in north Africa and the migrant boats risking the journey across the Mediterranean: “The government is clear that we must break the link between people making the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean and achieving settlement in Europe ,” she said.
(9) There was desperate resistance, as when Sol Campbell had to deal with a treacherous low ball from the substitute Dmitry Torbinsky.
(10) Viewed from the outside, Pakistan looms as the Fukushima of fundamentalism: a volatile, treacherous place filled with frothing Islamists and double-dealing generals, leaking plutonium-grade terrorist trouble.
(11) The investment banking division, which causes much of the controversy over bonuses at the end of the year, has had a torrid time but remained profitable and Hester said it had been operating in an "incredibly treacherous environment".
(12) In the low-risk setting, TB can be treacherous because misdiagnosis is likely.
(13) The Obama administration on Monday approved Shell’s plan to resume drilling for oil and gas in the treacherous and fragile waters off the coast of Alaska , three years after the Anglo-Dutch oil giant was forced to suspend operations following a series of potentially dangerous blunders.
(14) Linkage analysis between the D4S18, D4S23, and QDPR loci and Treacher Collins syndrome in eight families excluded the Treacher Collins syndrome locus from the region of the deletion.
(15) On the contrary, the rotation of the midfacial segment combined with mandibular lengthening for the correction of Treacher Collins has a strong tendency to relapse because of the backward pull of the soft tissues.
(16) Treacher Collins syndrome is a rare but well studied autosomal dominant craniofacial malformation syndrome.
(17) UAE halted Isis air attacks after pilot capture Read more But it was also a crude and menacing message to Jordanians, whose government was described as “treacherous and Zionist”, to stop fighting Isis.
(18) Heathrow airport cancelled half of its flights as the snow and cold weather continued to cause problems across the UK, stranding motorists and leaving roads icy and treacherous.
(19) The area above the last camp at South Col is nicknamed the "death zone" because of the steep icy slope, treacherous conditions and low oxygen level.
(20) The haemorrhagic accident preceding the onset of craniofacial microsomia is discussed as is the distinctly different phenomenon of disturbance to the migration or differentiation of neural crest cells in the pathogenesis of Treacher Collins syndrome.