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Example sentences for "allegiance"

Lexicographically close words:
allege; allegeance; alleged; allegedly; alleges; alleging; allegoric; allegorical; allegorically; allegories
  1. His retinue were meanwhile examined relative to his supposed design of withdrawing Martinique from its allegiance to France.

  2. Everywhere the escape of the Plantagenet was received with satisfaction, and at last the people of Dublin unanimously tendered their allegiance to the pretender, as the rightful heir to the throne.

  3. When Babylon succeeded Assyria in the overlordship of Asia, she doubtless inherited the allegiance of the anti-Egyptian party in the various Syrian states.

  4. The opening years of the new reign passed in nominal allegiance to Babylon.

  5. The Church suffers far less by losing the allegiance of the lapsed masses than it does by those who associate with the service of Christ those malignant and selfish vices which are often canonised as Respectability and Convention.

  6. It is a letter from the traitor Monmouth, calling upon me to resign the allegiance of my natural sovereign and to draw my sword in his behalf!

  7. I am surprised, indeed, that you should have fallen away from that allegiance to which you did not only swear yourself, but did administer the oath to so many others.

  8. If this would not suffice, he would submit himself entirely to the Church, saving his allegiance to the king.

  9. He owed no allegiance superior to that assumed in his ordination.

  10. Yet in France he was naturally the hero of the hour, and the journey on his way to tender allegiance was a triumphal progress.

  11. With a splendid retinue he sailed for Rome, where he took an oath of allegiance to Innocent, including a pledge to persecute heresy.

  12. As early as the year 1229 we hear of the banishment of all the Franciscans from the kingdom of Naples, as papal emissaries seeking to withdraw from the emperor the allegiance of his subjects.

  13. They had been reconciled to the Church, and had assisted at the siege of Lavaur, but they were sternly told that they would not be spared unless they would eject Raymond from the city and renounce their allegiance to him.

  14. It abandoned its reverence for Manes as the paraclete and transferred its allegiance to two others of its leaders, Paul and John of Samosata, from the first of whom it acquired the name of Paulicianism.

  15. Pudentius had locked the gates, armed the citizens; the city has forsworn its allegiance to you.

  16. And I will promise to force Sardinia back to allegiance in a single battle and to bring you the traitor's head.

  17. The incident provoked bitter criticism, and nothing being done to punish the recalcitrants, the Los Angeles Board of Education was charged with indifference as to the allegiance of its public servants.

  18. They have shown, it has been eloquently said, the utmost recklessness respecting the oath of allegiance to the nation.

  19. He told me he could give me no authority to secure my horse, unless I would take the oath of allegiance to the United States.

  20. The Church and State are not one in this country; we, as men, in all good faith take the oath of allegiance required of us.

  21. These are the men who have taken the oath of allegiance in all sincerity, supposing themselves to be as much in tune with the spirit of American life as the occasion called for.

  22. He cannot possibly approach public questions as if his allegiance were wholly with the country of his residence.

  23. It has taken the emergency of a war to reveal to many naturalized citizens how mistaken they were (this at least is the most charitable interpretation) when they supposed that the old allegiance had been thoroughly subordinated.

  24. He must renounce any hereditary title or order of nobility, and all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign potentate, prince, city, or state of which he is a subject.

  25. Finally, then, the alien must renounce all foreign allegiance and fidelity, and swear to his attachment to the principles of the Constitution of this country, and engage to support and defend it and the laws against all enemies.

  26. Practically to nothing more than the statement by the alien himself that he wishes to transfer his allegiance from a foreign state to this, and the swearing of fidelity.

  27. Now it has always seemed to me that a writer owes his first allegiance to his readers.

  28. But, so the Italians argue, their conversion has been too sudden: they have changed their flag but not their hearts; their real allegiance is not to Belgrade but to Berlin.

  29. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Triple Alliance fell in 1907, and Punch indicated that Italy's allegiance was already wearing thin.

  30. Of the three "B's" Bach alone has maintained his prestige, and to-day counts upon the allegiance of all schools.

  31. Mr. Hammerstein's Opera House in Kingsway after a brief allegiance to the serious lyric Muse went the way of other similar ventures.

  32. He seized the opportunity to combine humanitarianism with allegiance to the throne by issuing a Plea for the Birds to the Women of England--begging them to discontinue the wearing of egret plumes on this and every other occasion.

  33. To win the allegiance and loyal affection of men means that one's own personality is enhanced; one stands out as a man of affairs, a social or political leader, a guide to others in action or thought.

  34. Allegiance to a group may, of course, be secured through participation in common ideals.

  35. Sincere fear of the possible evils of novelty in the disorganization which it promotes, habituation to established ways, or a sentimental and æsthetic allegiance to them--all these are factors that determine genuine opposition to change.

  36. It is, as we shall see, in the rigidity and formalism of its conception, in its fanatical allegiance to a priori standards, and its absolute sanctification of given ways of action, that the theory is questionable.

  37. Individuals tend to display persistently and conspicuously just those qualities which will win them the allegiance of others.

  38. Yes, you will take the oath of allegiance to his Majesty; and as to the rest, as to the augmentation of your salary, I give you my word as an Oberfoerster that all will be done according to the promises I have just made you.

  39. Borgia had an interview with him, but would not yield to his inducements to transfer his allegiance to the older order of Hieronymites.

  40. Boniface won Naples, which had owed spiritual allegiance to the antipopes Clement VII.

  41. He studied music at the Milan Conservatoire, but even in those early days he devoted as much of his time to literature as to music, forecasting the divided allegiance which was to be the chief characteristic of his life's history.

  42. Alexander now contemplated sending Cesare to Romagna to subdue the turbulent local despots, and with the help of the French king carve a principality for himself out of those territories owing nominal allegiance to the pope.

  43. George of Podebrad and by releasing all Bohemians from their oath of allegiance to him.

  44. The Hungarians accepted Matthias as their ruler, and when his forces entered Moravia the estates of that country had, by Charles, lord of Zerotin, also renounced the allegiance of Rudolph.

  45. In 1860 a new prince, owning allegiance to the Dutch, was set up.

  46. He then issued his proclamation, offering peace and pardon to all the rest of the tribe on condition that they would take the oath of allegiance to him.

  47. They not only knew that all farther resistance would be useless, but they were, in fact, well pleased to transfer their allegiance to their old friend and favorite.

  48. They were accordingly ready at once to transfer their allegiance to him.

  49. The whole assembly then kneeled again, and solemnly declared that they accepted the choice which the emperor had made, and promised allegiance and fidelity to the new sovereign so soon as he should be invested with power.

  50. If you feel no need to show your allegiance and love to Christ by speech as well as by life, I shrewdly suspect you have little love or allegiance to hide.

  51. The allegiance of Hejaz was renounced early in the European War; but Yemen achieved its independence in the seventeenth century, and maintained it till 1871, when the territory again fell into the hands of the Turks.

  52. The essence of a modern army is that it shall be composed of organized units each under its own commander, grouped in formations of ever-increasing size, and owing allegiance through these commanders to one supreme head.

  53. The inhabitants of the annexed territory are absolved from their allegiance to their former sovereign.

  54. They are the minority members of a heterogeneous Council towards which they owe no allegiance and recognise no binding responsibility.

  55. The peace of 1718 represents Habsburg's farthest advance southwards; Belgrade and half of present-day Serbia owned allegiance to Vienna.

  56. When King John VI returned to Lisbon in 1821, he left as Regent of Brazil his son Dom Pedro, who, a few months later, supported by Brazilian opinion, threw off allegiance to his father and declared himself an independent sovereign.

  57. They had found it impossible to live under the tyrannical government of the Moors, and were now going to transfer their allegiance to the King of Bambarra.


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