How To Use Allegiance In A Sentence

Although Jameson is clear-eyed about the corrosive effects of modernity, his methodology nevertheless seemed to require his allegiance to secularization and to convergence theories of modernization; moreover, the acuity and insight of the readings produced by this methodology served to justify that faith a posteriori. Introduction
But it is not only Marxists who argue that bureaucracies may owe their primary allegiance to a particular class.
Soldiers must swear allegiance to the King.
The string-pullers behind this system have no national allegiances.
How can you justify allegiance to a different city if you do not live there, or are not from there?

A citizen of the United States, is a _person_ owing allegiance to the government; but then all persons are not _men_; and the definition of "citizeness" is a female citizen. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)
Can a newly minted American renounce his allegiance to Germany but retain his allegiance to Bavaria?
Their allegiance is still to the Queen.
They must know the national anthem and pledge the oath of allegiance. Times, Sunday Times
In 1189 King William had taken advantage of Richard's financial needs to buy his freedom from English allegiance for 10,000 marks.
Ashmole was fascinated by magic, alchemy and astrology, and befriended many astrologers regardless of political allegiance.
The quotations above illustrate this left-wing frankness, and show how far political allegiances in some cases determine selection policy.
They were primarily to secure the allegiance of their subject, with most barons providing military service.
But it's okay, we're allowed to live to excess this week, since on Friday night we will swear allegiance to a new, healthy regime.
The existing oath of allegiance for people seeking British nationality is to be changed to a citizenship pledge.
Of course if she’d been gang raped by the KRB group the trollies would have to redecide their allegiance wouldn’t they. Think Progress » Halliburton/KBR Goes After Rape Survivor Jamie Leigh Jones’ Personal Integrity In Its Supreme Court Petition
Half a million immigrants pledge their allegiance to the United States each year.
The "overture" - the missionary's initial bonding with Muslims via discussion of the Koran - is precision-engineered to undermine their allegiance to Islam. GetReligion
While all the main UK banks swear passionate allegiance to the very British concept of free while in credit banking, costs are inching up on several fronts.
As part of the pacification of the Highlands after the collapse of the Jacobite rising of 1689-90 a royal order required all clan chieftains to take an oath of allegiance to William and Mary.
To me, a true patriot is one whose allegiance is to freedom, not to flags.
The Jews stood forth distinct from all other nations, professing allegiance to God.
He remembers the oath of allegiance he has sworn. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
New citizens make an oath of allegiance or affirmation and a pledge to respect the rights, freedoms and laws of the UK. Times, Sunday Times
A three percent swing equates to one million electors changing their political allegiance.
When my friends or classmates pledged allegiance to the flag, I remained seated and silent.
Presidents must swear allegiance to the US constitution.
Given the Marxian reduction of everything to class interests, it is obvious that a petit bourgeois arriviste such as Ms. Rodham-Clinton can neither command the allegiance of the proletariat nor enjoy the trust of the capitalists.
But Clinton gained admirers in the old-mens 'club by working hard, forming cross-party allegiances, and most importantly, not stealing the spotlight from publicity hounds like her New York colleague, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. Al Franken's new act opens on a serious note but should it?
He refuses to make any secret of his political allegiances.
It was noticeable, however, that most of the lead drummers (‘lolay’ men) maintained their allegiance to goatskin.
Their loyalty was to God; they could not swear allegiance to any temporal state.
Young studs across the country will pledge their allegiances to institutions of higher learning.
The priests were said to use the sacraments to make the Queen's subjects switch their allegiance to the King of Spain.
The union needs to retain the allegiance of all its members for the strike to succeed.
But as events take a number of twisty turns, no allegiance is as clear as it first seems and back-stabbing, double-dealing and compromise are the order of the day. Catch-up TV Guide: From Borgen to Brighton Rock
But his controversial elevation to the peerage to enable him to become a junior health minister has already exposed his political naivety and allegiance. Times, Sunday Times
The note of war has been sounded, and in the imperial proclamation, recently issued, the people of the Confederate States and all who sympathize with them are treated as rebels, and twenty days is allowed them to "disperse" and return to their allegiance to the authorities at Washington. Senate journal of the second extra session of the thirty-third General Assembly of the state of Tennessee : which convened at Nashville on Thursday, the 25th day of April, A. D. 1861,
Time has come for introspection by them who owe allegiance to Advanian hinduism, and pondering by political population, that what the country has achieved till date by destabilising the settled communal harmony of this country by hurting the sentiment of a community – and more so, in this sub-continent, where helpless hindus have been suffering continuously since Dec 1992 in the name of retaliations. -- from bijan ghosh date 5 March 2009 14:44 subject india New Lawyers Chambers Supreme Court Buildings New Delhi 110 001 1:20 PM Archive 2009-03-01
Their task was to take oaths of allegiance from the various semi-independent cities, and to encourage resistance to Milan.
The Loyalists amongst the Colonials came out in crowds to see him, eager to show their allegiance now that it looked as if the revolution were sputtering out.
Franklin Roosevelt spoke fluent French and German and worked to create the United Nations, but no one doubted that his allegiance was to America above all.
One hopes, at least, that these people understand how lucky they have been: that they hold their jobs because of their political allegiance and biddability and not because of any enormous talent; that the game is about to be up; and that when it is they will have no cause for complaint. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
But there are sites and blogs that entertain while dodging any overt political allegiance. Times, Sunday Times
Tattoos in the civil wars symbolized allegiance to military commanders and comrades-in-arms rather than to the local community.
They quarrel with God as if he had dealt unkindly by them in forsaking them, whereas they by their idolatry had driven him from them; they have withdrawn from their allegiance to him, and so have thrown themselves out of this protection. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
More important, the relation between class location and political allegiance is not linear and unproblematical.
With the crowds all gathered around, Vic invited local people to pledge their allegiance with more than 100 people stepped up to pledge their allegiance, receiving certificates for being true Yorkshire tykes, white roses and a stick of good old Dewsbury on Sea rock.
Here, Natalia's search for death is marked as also a quest for ‘authenticity,’ one with which, despite our uneasiness, we may feel some readerly allegiance.
Council, whether, even at this point, they should untread their steps, and, throwing themselves upon the Czarina's 30 mercy, return to their old allegiance. De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
But a more intimate sense of Mr. Dallaire comes from a personal anecdote in "They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children," where he reflects on his Canadian childhood and on the ways in which boys, even before reaching adolescence, can become acutely aware of tribal allegiances and enmities. Young And Dangerous
In many American schools, the students pledge allegiance at the beginning of the school day.
After the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, the meeting was called to order.
Other products that control pythium include Allegiance and Dynasty, while Argent and NuFlow M are other treatments applied for rhizoctonia. Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed
A Republican presidential nominee who can appeal across party allegiances would be a strong contender next year. Times, Sunday Times
The cross-cutting sympathies have shuffled up foreign policy allegiances. Times, Sunday Times
They said that their return to the motherland is part of the renewal of their allegiance to his majesty king Mohammed vi (a french - speaking daily “aujourd (hui le Maroc” reported on wednsday 27/12/2007) Global Voices in English » Western Sahara: Landmine Injures Five During Peaceful Protest
The Empire, a loose alliance of city-states and provinces owing allegiance to its Emperor, and the kingdom of Bretonnia.
A dying LBJ retired to Texas and let his hair grow long, some say in tacit allegiance to the anti-war protesters who once marched outside his White House. McNamara and the souls of Vietnam
All lands so confiscated are by this decree revertible to their original holders upon their taking oath of allegiance to The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
This is something more than the faith-based pledge of allegiance suggested by mega-churches and multimillionaire television evangelists. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
They contend that large swathes of the population are becoming more rigid in their political allegiances.
I would have no qualms about people having to take an oath of allegiance on entering the country.
African women may feel multiple allegiances: community affiliations, ethnic identification, global womanhood, and racial solidarity.
Beyond their allegiance to hearth, home and squadron, a loyalty to humanity drove them on. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
Before she married on her 21st birthday, she negotiated over a hundred treaties, truces and allegiances.
He previously had dual citizenship and has now been given lottery funding after switching athletic allegiances. Times, Sunday Times
Party and elected officials - the so-called super-delegates - are free to shift allegiance, and could form an instant core of Clinton support.
Such support is acceptable for sports -- the etymology of the word fan is a shortened version of fanatic -- but it is inadequate when such support is used to determine one's political allegiance. Byron Williams: Blind Allegiance Is Good for Sports, Bad for Political Debate
But our European allegiances remain largely unexplored territory. Times, Sunday Times
Politics is still a matter of allegiances, bribes and favours. Times, Sunday Times
When he is sworn into office he will have to pledge his allegiance to the republican constitution.
Again, a substantial withdrawal of allegiance from Aethelred must have occurred.
The reasons they switched their allegiance included anxiety about globalisation, a rejection of political corruption and fear of immigration.
She is an admitted obsessive, expecting an almost religious allegiance from her dancers.
The JAP project inserted itself, uncalled, into the turbulent confluence between natural law and state regulation, and signaled its allegiance to the former.
Many people have abandoned their traditional party allegiances.
He was careful to proclaim his allegiance to President Karzai, and affirmed that he would send more money to the center if they needed it.
As an Englishman who'd lived for a long time in France, he felt a certain conflict of allegiances when the two countries played soccer.
For a few moments the couple find themselves in church or in the registry office watched by their closest family and friends, publicly swearing what amounts to a solemn oath of allegiance to each other.
Our allegiance must be to a transcendent God whose righteousness and mercy are both beyond our understanding.
Fear of regional war has flushed normally reticent governments into openly declaring their allegiances. Times, Sunday Times
For some, no amount of damning evidence will sway them from their allegiance.
Communities of Epicureans sprang up throughout the Hellenistic world; along with Stoicism, it was one of the major philosophical schools competing for people's allegiances.
It is true, the Arabian sage returned to his allegiance, and thereafter composed a genuine continuation of the Knight of La Mancha, in which the said Avellaneda of Tordesillas is severely chastised. The Monastery
The Epidamnians in 435 asked Delphi whether they should transfer their allegiance from their unobliging mother-city Corcyra to Corcyra's own mother-city Corinth.
The powerful Creoles of Santa Fe de Bogota didn’t actually declare independence from Spain, the declared allegiance to the abdicator, Fernando VII of Spain. 20 Julio de 1810 « Unknowing
I thought all people must pledge their allegiance, or be categorised accordingly.
The supposed transfer of allegiance from the older, declining imperial power to the ascendant one oversimplifies Curtin's choice.
The union needs to retain the allegiance of all its members for the strike to succeed.
It represents a radical and all-embracing transfer of allegiance.
There seems to be little doubt that public school teachers could not lead classes in recitation of that version of the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each school day. Balkinization
In addition, students started their day by pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes flag.
Let's forget he had sworn allegiance to Queen Victoria en-route to Oz and fought an odd battle or two for the Poms on the way.
Participants will deliver an oath of allegiance to the Queen and a pledge of commitment to the United Kingdom, in what is now a compulsory part of the naturalisation process.
Constantly it seems we are pressured to declare our allegiance to one side or the other.
And West Ham was not the only predominantly working-class area that gave rise to a political authority seemingly remote from popular allegiance.
Soros professes his allegiance to two masters: maximizing private profit in his market dealings and the public good in his philanthropy.
Lord Blackwood shall be required to confess his treason and abjure his allegiance to the Starks and Tullys.
In many American schools, the students pledge allegiance at the beginning of the school day.
Thanks to the allegiance of these sons and daughters of toil you have escaped what your affluent forebears used to call "confiscatory" income-tax levels. Latest entries from edstrong.blog-city.com
Does a state law that requires the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance violate the establishment clause?
He remembers the oath of allegiance he has sworn. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
Drawing on themes from Michel Foucault, the team symbolizes its withdrawal of allegiance from the out-moded sociohistorical construct of power and authoritarianism implicit in the state of buoyancy by performing "The Death of Man" in an empty pool. Olympic Notes
He would be compromised by his party allegiance, not to mention his string of directorships.
My own view is that of a person who was born into a family of Episcopalians whose allegiance to that church stretches as far back as anyone can remember.
Serebin has no army to enlist in, no state to swear allegiance to, no cause to fight for.
Party allegiance itself has become a more slippery concept, as political cross-dressing blurs the lines between the parties.
‘Students, please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance,’ the loud speaker sounded, signaling the beginning of the announcements.
But the rugged mountains and dim woods are never enemies of the scout, and perhaps Tom Slade of Temple Camp felt that even the Schwarzwald, which is the Black Forest, would forget its allegiance to whisper its secrets in his ear. Tom Slade with the Boys Over There
The various splinter groups all claim allegiance to the true spirit of the movement.
This time he is actively hated by the leaders of the dispossessed to whom he professes his allegiance.
Around my area, 50,000 men follow freemasonry and each has sworn to give his utmost allegiance to the Craft. 4.
The rebels now have to swear allegiance to the queen they hate.
Governors of the Mughal empire also took advantage of growing feebleness - the nawabs of Bengal, Oudh and Hyderabad were soon to establish quasi-independent states which owed only nominal allegiance to Delhi.
Mikhail is a curiously ambiguous character in that we are not aware of his allegiance. The Tail Section » LOST - Who Can Ya Trust?
In these texts, confrontations between human and other are ripe with possibilities for denaturalizing the boundaries and allegiances which infuse traditional depictions of the human/non-human dichotomy.
I would also agree that it isn't the case "that reading a novel on its own terms should always be the end point of criticism," although I do maintain -- this is really what my allegiance to "aestheticism" finally amounts to -- it is a indispensable and necessary beginning point. Principles of Literary Criticism
With his hand on his heart and tears spilling down his cheeks, Charles Prince pledged his allegiance to the flag.
The quotations above illustrate this left-wing frankness, and show how far political allegiances in some cases determine selection policy.
The allegiance of uncommitted voters will be crucial.
For the bureaucracy, allegiance to the Emperor came before democratic representation.
All he had to do in return was pledge allegiance to the Crown. Times, Sunday Times
The idea isn't just to make money -- though that will be nice -- but to repair and nurture the sense of community involvement, debate and local allegiance that is at the core of the American experiment in democratic self-government. Howard Fineman: Newark's Story -- and Ours
This seems a clear example of his allegiance to popular dissent against the Church and social elite who supported the Restoration.
In Paralympic terms, it is the biggest transfer out there and raises questions about loyalty and allegiance. Times, Sunday Times
We now invoke a deity when we recite our Pledge of Allegiance, and our currency clearly proclaims the basis of our laws; can compulsory adherence to Christianity be far behind?
For someone to question why this allegiance has now seemingly evaporated is in no way trying to force anyone to do anything. The Volokh Conspiracy » U.S. Denying Entry Visas to People Who Work on Israel’s Dimona Nuclear Reactor?
The Spanish governors in Italy declared allegiance to their new sovereign, and French troops reinforced them.
If you join the armed forces, you have to pledge allegiance to your country.
When my friends or classmates pledged allegiance to the flag, I remained seated and silent.
Samuel's role remains unclear, but his real allegiance seems increasingly obvious.
New ruling administrators owed allegiance to the state.
Regions have "embassies" in sprout-town even now, - without statutory legislation, or financial approval, financed by slush funds out of ODPM, like "Yorkshire Forward", so if regions ALL bow to sprout-town, who swears allegiance to HM, or the office of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha bloodline? [blair house blues] exercise in pettiness
Today's manor houses may not be homes to a lord, and neighbours may not be swearing allegiance in return for protection. Times, Sunday Times
Spivak is often viewed as an unequivocally deconstructive theorist, and she frequently reinforces this impression by proclaiming her allegiance to Derrida's ideas.
The franchiseis struggling to reconnect with a fandom pledging allegiance to Florida Gators football and split among in-state NFL clubs Tampa Bay and Miami as well as the Jaguars.
Portrait prints were particularly popular in the early 18th century, when they might well be badges of political or dynastic allegiance. Times, Sunday Times
Fear of regional war has flushed normally reticent governments into openly declaring their allegiances. Times, Sunday Times
Our allegiances are divided between protozoology, phycology, parasitology, mycology, protistology, plant pathology and myriad other professional societies and their journals.
FBI demands its employees absolute allegiance to this bureau.
Exact repetition is part of every religion, every doctrine, the Pledge of Allegiance, every ritual. Archive 2009-03-01
Every local politician thereafter swore allegiance to saving neighbourhoods, as though Noreen and her friends had just given voice to the obvious.
That is why Dali's importance as an artist confounds all those facile publicity stunts, his dubious political allegiances and his avaricious pursuit of wealth.
There are many gangs who have adopted political allegiance to one party or another.
Troops readily change their allegiances, while the dividing line between non-belligerents and those in active service is tenuous and easily shifted.
For example, how did I end up pledging allegiance to five different countries at one time or another and sung their national anthems?
The nervous assemblage of 160 immigrants ready to raise their right hand and swear the ‘Oath of Allegiance’ breaks into titters.
But it is not only Marxists who argue that bureaucracies may owe their primary allegiance to a particular class.
When even Douglas Laycock, a quite moderate professor of law at Virginia, and probably the country's leading theorist about church and state, says that "in principle" the "under God" language in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional, but that current litigation to remove it is "many decades premature", he is not only affirming Akin's point, but is dooming liberalism to years and years of anti-God attacks. Bruce Ledewitz: Well, Don't We Liberals Hate the Public God?
So spy chiefs handed them DVDs and magazines to help persuade them to switch their allegiance. The Sun
My allegiance to Kendall and his company ran deep.
Inverlochie, and desir'd the Col.nel to minister to him the oath of allegiance, that he might have the King's indemnity: But Col. Hill, in his deposition, doth further depone, that he hasten'd him away all he could, and gave him a letter to Ardkinlas to receive him as a lost sheep; ... The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)
It was his instinct for self-preservation that led him to abandon his former friends and transfer his allegiance to the new rulers.
The differences are sometimes idiosyncratic, but they may also reflect deeper divisions of allegiance.
The shaykhs and their tribes pledge their allegiance to the ruling Al Saud royal family.
Could it have been those allegiances that in some way led her to purvey such calumnies?
Some philosophers and philosophically-minded physicists may have been misled on this score by their allegiance to an excessively positivistic epistemology of science.
Over the centuries, schisms occurred in which the seceders switched allegiance to Rome, forming the Uniate churches.
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Whatever your political allegiance, there's almost certain to be a piece of merchandise to suit it.
Like waxwings, fieldfares are nomadic and show no allegiance to regular wintering areas.
I pretended to be interested - I even learnt the names of some of the players, and eventually was forced to swear allegiance to a team.
New citizens are asked to swear allegiance during the citizenship ceremony.
FBI demands its employees absolute allegiance to this bureau.
He took an oath of allegiance to his adopted country.
There was no talk of taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance, for example, and Winifred Sullivan of the University of Buffalo Law School even referred to the "de-constitutionalization" of church/state issues. Bruce Ledewitz: The Religious/Secular Divide at the New School
Medieval knights took an oath of allegiance/loyalty to their lord.
Labor's record in power has forever ruptured the close allegiance that millions of workers once had with the party.
Hearne continued a staunch nonjuror to the end of his days, and refused many University appointments, including the Keepership of the Bodleian Library, which he might have had, had he been willing to take the oath of allegiance to the government; but he preferred, to use his own words, 'a good conscience before all manner of preferment and worldly honour. ' English Book Collectors
Female cuckoos bear more allegiance to a particular host, be it redstart or warbler, than do their males.
It's a bit small but the staff are friendly, smilingly acknowledging my allegiance before sportingly serving me coffee without gobbing in it.
Roughly 11m people a day read the Sun, people said by most psephologists to matter crucially at elections because most are swing voters without a firm party allegiance.
We will give our full allegiance to the party and everything it believes in.
It was difficult on everybody and there was an allegiance to Jef, but Steve had his own compelling aura.
The rebels now have to swear allegiance to the queen they hate.
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
When he is sworn into office he will have to pledge his allegiance to the republican constitution.
Barons had to swear an oath of allegiance to the king.
The police are the only civil servants who have to swear allegiance to the Crown.
You have seen duty and allegiance in the determined faces of our soldiers.
And if my democratically-elected MP fails to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen, why will they be barred from entering Parliament to represent me?
The government gives huge subsidies to its production and politicians still use it to show their allegiance to the independence movement. Times, Sunday Times
When they subcontract to foreign companies, which brings in foreign nationals who might have other allegiances in place.
They're successful because of their allegiance to the customer.
Nothing brings out my inner suffragette more than a film that announces its allegiance to post-feminism.
Should new citizens of Canada pledge allegiance to the queen of Great Britain?
Where the general duty of allegiance has lapsed into oblivion, the tenant-in-chief is in all but name a dependent king, and the feudal state becomes a federation under a hereditary president, who occasionally arbitrates between the members of the federation and occasionally leads them out to war. Medieval Europe
Thus, in 1933 Gadamer, along with other Marburg professors, signed a public declaration of allegiance to the National Socialist state.
This is shown by its serving the hierarchies of many disparate cultures in their heraldry, emblazonments, and their signals of rank and allegiance.
There was an appeal that had been filed in the Supreme Court by the attorneys of a skinhead whod written the word towelhead in white paint on the driveway of his employer, a Pakistani convenience store owner whod fired him for being drunk on the job; some research about why the words under God had been added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 during the McCarthy era; and a stack of mail equally balanced between desperate souls who wanted me to fight on their behalf and right-wing conservatives who berated the ACLU for making it criminal to be a white churchgoing Christian. Change of Heart
People were employed on the basis of political allegiance, chance meetings and connections to the powerful rather than expertise. Times, Sunday Times
they took an oath of allegiance
Told them I was a rebel governmentalist, studied old Washington, said the pledge of allegiance, bowed down to the star-spangled banner, all that stuff. Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 8.2 of 31.1
I mean, it's no less ridiculous than pledging allegiance to a hereditary monarch from a German background. Pupils should kneel before Zod
Yet by refusing to cede her role as a Hillary surrogate, and tirelessly fanning the fames of party disunity, she helped keep media attention on the myth that there were legions of disaffected Hillary voters whose allegiance was available for harvest by any candidate in a pantsuit. Ten Chumps Who Helped Elect Barack Obama
His unswerving allegiance to the socialist ideal guaranteed an eventful political life.
The vast majority of any bureaucracy is made up of people with no political allegiance. Times, Sunday Times
The press today lives alongside the power of television and competes with it for allegiance and influence.
You owe allegiance to your king.

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