(n.) A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince or government, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Loyalists are opposed to any restrictions and have blocked roads and rioted over the issue.
(2) Security forces have also tried to wrest back the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit from a loose alliance of Isis fighters, other jihadist groups and former Saddam Hussein loyalists.
(3) The Labour party erupted into open civil war as Ed Miliband loyalists and supporters of Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader who resigned this weekend, exchanged accusations and insults.
(4) The only thing certain is that the effects of the referendum will be big.” Steven Morris Northern Ireland Facebook Twitter Pinterest A loyalist paramilitary mural in Belfast.
(5) One of Northern Ireland's most feared paramilitary hardmen has urged Ulster loyalists to keep out of Scotland's independence campaign because they could seriously damage the pro-UK cause.
(6) One of the two last strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists, the town of Bani Walid, has finally been contained, Libya's interim government has claimed, leaving only parts of the ousted tyrant's birthplace out of rebel reach.
(7) Republicans and nationalists used to believe that all the informers were on the loyalist side when in fact as we found out in having limited access to security file was it was nearly as big as on the republican side.” Bradley added that an already traumatised society such as Northern Ireland was being further traumatised by the political disagreements over how to deal with its violent past.
(8) Policing must be as robust against loyalist paramilitaries involved in violent protests over the union flag as it is towards dissident republicans, rank and file police officers have said.
(9) Loyalists say it is their duty to help defend the Islamic revolution.
(10) UUP to leave Northern Ireland’s power-sharing executive Read more The revival of the independent monitoring commission (IMC), which had the task of examining the status of IRA and loyalist paramilitary ceasefires before devolution was restored nearly a decade ago, has been mooted as a way to rebuild the unionist community’s trust in republican goodwill and deter future ceasefire breaches.
(11) • New York 's Jonathan Chait declares Christie all but finished: "The e-mails prove that Christie’s loyalists closed the bridge deliberately as political retribution, not as a 'traffic study' as claimed.
(12) Yet he never revealed the open resentment with which some of the Kennedy loyalists greeted Johnson.
(13) "Finding out about Morrissey, and how controversial he is, just makes me understand less why people think you have to be a Morrissey loyalist to enjoy the Smiths.
(14) Saeed Jalili, right, a Khamenei hyper-loyalist, registers his candidacy.
(15) But Miliband's boost among party loyalists has not translated into a larger Labour lead with the Ipsos Mori poll now putting the two parties neck and neck on 35%.
(16) If the Parades Commission considers that the loyalist event falls within its remit, it could issue a determination that would limit its route, which currently passes the nationalist Short Strand.
(17) At a third meeting, on October 10, the loyalist discussed two other, unrelated murders.
(18) Sammy Duddy, who has died of a heart attack aged 62, was a founding member in 1971 of the largest loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).
(19) Trump loyalists stand by their man – but the resistance is taking root Read more The protesters are part of a sudden swell of liberal activism that has drawn millions to city streets and airport concourses across the US, in a startling show of resistance to Trump’s presidency.
(20) Beijing has promised universal suffrage for the election of its chief executive from 2017, but reformers are angry about restrictions that have been imposed on the process, including tight control of candidates by a nomination committee stacked with pro-Beijing loyalists.
Royalist
Definition:
(n.) An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly, he was an intimate of Vuk Draskovic, the royalist opposition leader and the main opposition figure in the early 90s, but broke with him.
(2) As I said, I'm not much of royalist (I'm not even interested enough to be anti-monarchy), but purely on a human level, let's hope that the child is healthy and happy.
(3) By 2pm around 200 royalists and tourists had gathered outside St James's.
(4) Royalists are hoping that Felipe VI, so far untouched by any scandals, will help bolster the popularity of Spain's monarchy, whose approval ratings have hovered at record lows in recent years.
(5) General Prawit Wongsuwon, appointed as chairman of the advisory board, and General Anupong Paojinda, appointed to handle international relations, are well known royalists who, together with Prayuth, helped stage the 2006 coup that deposed the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a telecoms billionaire who is still at the heart of Thailand's political instability.
(6) The monarchy’s foundations are less secure than is often assumed, which is why royalists should be worried that the Queen will leave behind an institution as unreformed as it is undemocratic.
(7) He was an unabashed royalist, and made no secret of his pleasure in attending lunch at Buckingham Palace with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
(8) The prospect of restoring queen’s counsel in NSW and other states may recede, now that the tide in Canberra has turned against royalist flourishes.
(9) Thousands of anti-royalist protesters massed in the streets after Juan Carlos's abdication announcement.
(10) Popularly viewed as a motley ragbag of racist colonialists, Vichy sympathisers, antisemites and oddball royalists, Le Pen’s party was dismissed as a nasty coalition of history’s losers.
(11) Thierry Gaulot, a newly elected FN council member for Metz, around 35 miles from Forbach, insists that this is no longer about the old preoccupations of the French royalist right.
(12) The Newman government in Queensland with its frantically royalist attorney general Jarrod Bleijie, was a case in point.
(13) Legal action having failed, they duly swirled around the royalist end of Fleet Street .
(14) A career soldier known as a hardline royalist, Prayuth had been due to retire last year and spend his salad days playing golf.
(15) The contribution to the treatment of head injuries from Richard Wiseman, a Royalist surgeon during the English Civil War culminating in the battle of Worcester (1651), is presented.
(16) Recent attempts to reform the law have met fervent resistance by royalists, among them Prayuth, who according to the Associated Press told critics: "If you guys play hardball I'll have no choice but to do so too."
(17) Critics of the law say it has been used as a weapon against political enemies of the royalist elite and their military allies and now targets those opposed to the coup.
(18) There is, regardless of anyone's position on the royal family – and we do, on any 100-metre stretch, span the gamut: I met staunch royalists, fervent republicans, and a Polish guy called Bart who said: "I have no strong feelings, but I think it's nice for you to feel what you feel" – an underpinning idea that the Queen's job is quite hard.
(19) It sounds quite Scandinavian, which must be the way even British royalists will be heading when the Queen makes her last journey to the chapel at Windsor.
(20) Thailand’s ultra-royalist generals have long used their self-appointed position as defenders of the monarchy to justify coups and political interventions in the country’s often turbulent politics.