Examples of loyalty

• The unions assured the new owners of the workers' loyalty to the company.

• Medieval knights took an oath of loyalty to their lord.

• He prides himself on his loyalty to his friends.

• All the countries have proclaimed their loyalty to the alliance.

• Her loyalty is beyond question .

• I knew what he meant, because his loyalties were absolutely fundamental.

• Then out will go the difficult legacies of hierarchial government, clan loyalties, arbitrary succession and the adjustment to a money-based, urban-led culture.

• The result was not merely a blurring but a confusion, of normal factional loyalties.

• With loyalties tied to her father over her husband, this royal wife was both spy and military agent.

• Finally, even in the spirit world, individual and group loyalties coexist in interesting ways.

• Much more use of a narrative framework was needed in order to trace the development of party positions, loyalties and disputes during the war.

• What claim can the nation make on the loyalties of people who shuttle across borders for the sake of family, work, liberty, or sheer survival ?

• Locally-oriented interests subsequently reappeared, however, through an ideology of community, particularly neighbourhood units which were to guide local loyalties and social control.

• Exhibitions were meant to provide cultural symbols that would reaffirm loyalties in the face of other types of expression that might be used for resistance.

• If they fail in this, then the citizen's loyalties are at an end, while he endeavours instead to protect himself.

• Even more, participants made deliberate reference to their own (purported) political loyalties to strengthen the legitimacy of their actions.

• In reality, most of the electoral strength of both parties came from loyalties and anxieties that were tangential to the leaders' concerns.

• The 1970s and 1980s witnessed revolts and ethnic conflicts drawing on the strength of rural loyalties and discontent.

• The loyalties of negotiators, in contrast, were more particularistic and their priorities focused more on 'helping individuals or workers on the shopfloor'.

• A number of factors, including the left-wing factionalism of activists and the old party loyalties of voters, played an important role.