(n.) The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
(2) In family therapy, the analysis of secret implies not only to define the network of the concerned persons, but also the definition of the bonds between the secret and loyalties, the distribution of power, the alliances and the definitions of the private sphere (proper to each family) and of the protective function of the secret.
(3) Memo to bosses: expect zero loyalty from your zero-hours workers | Barbara Ellen Read more Field asked them to detail the costs couriers are expected to meet themselves, such as uniform and fuel, as well as data on their average hourly rate and information about what efforts the companies go to to ensure owner-drivers are earning the “ national living wage ”.
(4) It is a standard declaration of public loyalty to the Saudi royal family as it marks the end of a turbulent year since King Salman came to the throne.
(5) Andy Burnham had been in two minds about whether to serve, but decided party loyalty was his brand, and was attracted to the home secretaryship.
(6) It is essential, therefore, to submit one's loyalties and value judgments to constant scrutiny and questioning and to those theological criteria that make abortion also (though not only) a theological question, a task not without its risks.
(7) He is respected by staff and, according to one source, commands a high degree of loyalty.
(8) There is a reason for this and it is not merely the deeply ingrained tribal loyalty of a boy who still remembers the thrill of his first visit to the Stretford End or the tingle of excitement when offered a job as a paperboy by a former United star (in those days retired footballers had to work for a living).
(9) I would like to apologise to them, to thank them for their continued loyalty and to thank colleagues for their commitment during such difficult times," he said.
(10) Tory MPs, whose loyalty to the current leader is a jelly that never properly set, are wobbling all over the place.
(11) Peter Jay, who founded TV-am alongside Frost, told BBC News: "On the screen he was a very talented and original performer, but it was his talent off-screen, his quality as a human being, his capacity for friendship and loyalty, that were in my opinion the thing that raised him to quite an exceptional level."
(12) Within hours of my announcement, you showed me support and loyalty, which I could only expect to hear when someone would be at the top of their profession.
(13) Perrior’s appointment is a sign of May’s emphasis on proven practical skills but, crucially, also on loyalty, given that she is one of several longstanding allies who dropped everything at short notice in June to help with May’s leadership campaign.
(14) The insider added that News International is said to be particularly keen to rapidly launch an assault on the Sunday Mirror – one of the biggest beneficiaries of the News of the World's closure – on the basis that the longer it is out of the Sunday market, the more difficult it will be to break readers' loyalty to other titles.
(15) Some scams appeal to veterans’ sense of loyalty and patriotism by employing affinity marketing – using military and US related paraphernalia.
(16) Brown met many members of his cabinet before they issued their pledges of loyalty, which were offered with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
(17) The biographer of James Maxton, a Scots leftwinger with his own iconic status, he knows about party loyalties and tribal heroes.
(18) The next few days may well determine whether, this time, such loyalty will be in vain; but, while yearning for a clarion call and what was described as "vision" in this paper's leading article yesterday, I need to pose some pretty stark questions to Guardian readers.
(19) They damned television as lowbrow and manipulative, refusing to see that people’s politics were increasingly defined by the media they consumed rather than by loyalty to parties.
(20) In a joint statement the chapels said:"It shows management's utter disregard for the loyalty and dedication that their staff show every day in their efforts to produce quality newspapers and magazines, and sends out a deeply unpleasant message: no matter your experience or your commitment, everything is rated by cost."
Partisanship
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week’s International Women’s Day offered a fresh variation on that enjoyable, if futile, new pastime – posthumous EU partisanship.
(2) It would have been a step back from the hyper-partisanship that now poisons our public life.” The Labor leader, Bill Shorten, seized on Abbott’s comments on Sunday, saying the Turnbull government should now support a Senate inquiry into the detention of people in Nauru, after allegations of abuse and self-harm in incident reports leaked to Guardian Australia last week.
(3) Clegg’s team is as irritated by aggressive partisanship in the Conservative press as Miliband’s is, although no more surprised by it.
(4) Ethnic minorities in Britain share roughly similar levels of partisanship – identification with a political party – to the white population.
(5) While it is "an honour to be asked" to moderate the debate, Schieffer lamented the partisanship in American politics in an interview with Florida's Palm Beach Post over the weekend.
(6) A quest for the full truth, rather than knee-jerk partisanship, must be our guide if we are going to rebuild civic trust and health.” Rubio could not provide a deadline for the investigation.
(7) Their opposition to change wasn't based on principle or belief, but sheer partisanship and narrow party interest."
(8) It would have been a step back from the hyper-partisanship that now poisons our public life.” Menadue said the defeat of the Malaysia transfer arrangement had been “a tragedy, because that has given us Nauru and Manus Island”.
(9) Of course you must avoid political partisanship, but that should not stop you speaking out on matters affecting the public service profession, and they are many and wide.
(10) "The American people deserve to know what actions will be taken to ensure those who made these policy decisions at the IRS are being held fully accountable and more importantly what is being done to ensure that this kind of raw partisanship is fully eliminated from these critically important non-partisan government functions," they said.
(11) The domestic partisanship was only a brief foray in the speech, but the prime minister in essence blamed Labor for undoing the good work of the Howard government in returning the commonwealth budget to surplus.
(12) Partisanship and "yes men" are not a healthy way to run a department, let alone influence the values and methods that are remodelling teaching and fashioning our children's futures.
(13) Yet Price’s voting history places partisanship above patient wellbeing.
(14) For a host of reasons, ranging from haste to blinkered partisanship, all newspapers get things wrong (including the Guardian) and edit selectively.
(15) But a crucial shift is surely the trend towards deeper and more bitter partisanship.
(16) Partisanship, therefore, cannot be said to have played a part in its disastrous implementation .
(17) News channels feed partisanship and the echochamber This is particularly true in the US – where TV is unregulated - and a consequence of the undeniable success of Fox News.
(18) He added: "For decades, Republicans and Democrats put partisanship and ideology aside to offer some security for job-seekers, even when the unemployment rate was lower than it is today.
(19) And yet in a reborn two-party system, raucous partisanship is mostly what we would get.
(20) At the recent election, several of the micro-parties elected to the Senate represent extreme right-wing ideals, stirred up by hyper-partisanship – most notably, Abbott's call for a "people's revolt" against the carbon tax.