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  • He owed them allegiance, these men of his.†   (source)
  • Every morning, at Mountain View Elementary, he placed his hand over his heart and recited the pledge of allegiance.†   (source)
  • "Proclamations of Allegiance," and "Open Statements of Solidarity."†   (source)
  • When the three had arrived at the shop, they'd searched for a symbol that best represented their allegiance to one another and their shared situations.†   (source)
  • It's supposed to make it easier for them to change their allegiance from family to faction—to embrace the principle "faction before blood.†   (source)
  • Rasheed kept bringing home news of the war, and Laila was baffled by the allegiances that Rasheed tried to explain to her.†   (source)
  • And frankly, sir, considering your allegiance to the Crown, I'm a little surprised you didn't recognize it.†   (source)
  • And I answer myself, perhaps they believed a still greater power could exist, one that could vanquish even Lord Voldemort....perhaps they now pay allegiance to another ....perhaps that champion of commoners, of Mudbloods and Muggles, Albus Dumbledore?†   (source)
  • His allegiance to his country and his pride in being Japanese prevented him from giving in.†   (source)
  • I heard it again in homeroom, a whispered voice behind me as we said the Pledge of Allegiance: "You see her?"†   (source)
  • They wanted to hear from the community where Alex worked and lived-from her first-grade teacher to a state trooper who liked her in spite of her allegiance to the Dark Side.†   (source)
  • I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.†   (source)
  • In the centuries before the Dragonlords came over the sea, they had sworn allegiance to no man, styling themselves the Kings in the North.†   (source)
  • You owe me your allegiance, just as I owe you my life.†   (source)
  • The villagers were so certain about the doom that awaited these men that one or two converts thought it wise to suspend their allegiance to the new faith.†   (source)
  • I pledge allegiance to the flag of the great Republic of America, to our Elector Primo, to our glorious states, to unity against the Colonies, to our impending victory!†   (source)
  • Rameck knew his mother was right, but his allegiance to his friends in the Plainfield neighborhood was too strong for even a mother to break up.†   (source)
  • See that you keep your allegiance.†   (source)
  • To seventh-century Arabia, Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God.†   (source)
  • Richie must have recognized before Eleanor that her mother's allegiances had shifted.†   (source)
  • So now I give my allegiance to the cause she believed in.†   (source)
  • I hadn't felt a touch like that since my mother died — friendly, steadying in the midst of confusing events —and, like a stray dog hungry for affection, I felt some profound shift in allegiance, blood-deep, a sudden, humiliating, eyewatering conviction of this place is good, this person is safe, I can trust him, nobody will hurt me here.†   (source)
  • The idea that I was bombing our own helpless children instantly snapped whatever frail allegiance my people still felt to me.†   (source)
  • Nor do I owe allegiance to any man but myself.†   (source)
  • As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.†   (source)
  • After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.†   (source)
  • They gathered armies and made the cities recognize the need for allegiance.†   (source)
  • Ever since the trip home from our last visit to the prison, we had felt his unspoken allegiance to us.†   (source)
  • Here the only official ritual is pledging allegiance first thing in the morning to the American flag.†   (source)
  • I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegiance?'†   (source)
  • As originally worded, it began, "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands ..."†   (source)
  • I've been won to the side of schoolteachers and nurses, and lost all allegiance to plastic explosives.†   (source)
  • We would swear our allegiance to you, without question, if you would be willing to give us a sign of your readiness to work with us toward a future that would finally give the people of Illea a chance to live their own lives.†   (source)
  • They were radical Sunni Muslims with an allegiance to Osama bin Laden, the terrorist leader who needs no introduction—and whom SEALs hunted down and gave a fitting sendoff in 2011.†   (source)
  • But Sartre's allegiance was to what we might call an atheistic existentialism.†   (source)
  • Surely you respect some rule, some allegiance to your own kind.'†   (source)
  • After the final vote of all the Communist Party members, five new members, including me, found ourselves standing under the flag of China with Mao's Red Book raised by our faces, pledging our allegiance to the Communist Youth Party: "I willingly and proudly join the Communist Youth Party.†   (source)
  • My allegiance is no longer with him.†   (source)
  • The meeting was called to order and began with a heartfelt recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.†   (source)
  • I've always appreciated that about sports-medicine professionals—they are a part of the team, but when someone goes down, the team allegiances fall away as they scramble to attend to the player.†   (source)
  • All seem to give their allegiance to someone called Liet.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Myers barked the command to stand for the allegiance.†   (source)
  • Not out of love at all, or any allegiance to the past, or even out of guilt.†   (source)
  • When I was a kid we pledged allegiance.†   (source)
  • The new management team had ended the longtime practice of starting every executive meeting with the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi and the pledge of allegiance to the flag.†   (source)
  • It's true that there are many injustices in the world, many worthy causes competing for attention and support, and we all have divided allegiances.†   (source)
  • Some of the categories are harder to figure out, like "things you recite" (poetry, the Pledge of Allegiance) or "things you squeeze" (a tube of toothpaste, someone's hand).†   (source)
  • "My good man," John Miller echoed, "we will repay you with gold, and maidens, and our eternal allegiance to your cause.†   (source)
  • Part of the speech had been about dying, but more was about giving allegiance to Kyrria and its rulers, King Jerrold, Prince Charmont, and the entire royal family.†   (source)
  • We have sometimes wondered if you'd actually rescinded your allegiance to Valentine.†   (source)
  • In their allegiance to the King and to the rule of law, they saw themselves as the true American patriots.†   (source)
  • A farmer who no longer owns his own land and is merely a laborer tilling the soil forms no allegiance to either region or work; he has nothing to lose, nothing to fear for.†   (source)
  • We want to feel an allegiance.†   (source)
  • Come back to your allegiance.†   (source)
  • We rose again and sang the song, after which we recited the pledge of allegiance.†   (source)
  • How could a sheriff swear to uphold the law when his allegiance lay elsewhere?†   (source)
  • So when he took over the public schools, his allegiance lay more with schoolchildren and their families than with teachers and their union.†   (source)
  • That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what "pledge" and "allegiance" mean.'†   (source)
  • I was given a seat of honor, and I have learned the errors of my old allegiance.†   (source)
  • Are you willing to take the full oath of allegiance to the United States?†   (source)
  • Amy reacted with undying allegiance to me, loudly alternating between calling me her mom and her wife—both of which caused me to snort with mock outrage.†   (source)
  • They still sing it there, the way American kids pledge allegiance to the flag.†   (source)
  • It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed.'†   (source)
  • Unruffled by Herbert Jemson's breach of allegiance, because he had not heard it, Mr. Stone rose and walked to the pulpit with Bible in hand.†   (source)
  • For if transgressions have been made, then John Rimbauer has already switched his allegiance, whether aware of it or not.†   (source)
  • Carlos was certain his god dressed in a black cloak and fed on misery, and at times he questioned his own allegiance to Svensson.†   (source)
  • And after Mortenson dressed his wounds and treated him with a course of antibiotics, he was ready to swear allegiance to the only American he'd ever met.†   (source)
  • Someone swore allegiance to the Commandant.†   (source)
  • They are descendants of the Acadian French, who were expelled from Acadia, now Nova Scotia, when it became British and they wouldn't swear allegiance to the British crown.†   (source)
  • But when all is said and done, my allegiance doesn't belong to those other ymbrynes, or to other peculiar children.†   (source)
  • An ultimatum accepted and ritualized, an allegiance recited for the peace it imparted, and for that perhaps loved.†   (source)
  • Selby had been a member of the ANC Youth League before switching allegiance to the Pan Africanist Congress.†   (source)
  • I willingly trade my allegiance from him to you.†   (source)
  • Celia grieves for her husband, not for his death, not yet, but for his mixed-up allegiances.†   (source)
  • He permits no divided allegiance, no war between your mind and your body, no gulf between your values and your actions, no tributes to Caesar.†   (source)
  • "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen," Oscar said.†   (source)
  • Every day since they'd started junior high, the morning routine in homeroom was the same—Pledge of Allegiance, followed by the singing of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," the reading of a psalm, then reciting the Lord's Prayer together.†   (source)
  • And with the allegiance between the towns at such a low point, few of the town leaders would take any action at all to convince their people to flee.†   (source)
  • It was hard enough being singled out as the kid who didn't celebrate Christmas or say the Pledge of Allegiance.†   (source)
  • By the end of March, however, the leaflets had become inflammatory in tone, threatening excommunication to all in the neighborhood who displayed allegiance to Zionism, even at one point threatening to boycott neighborhood stores owned by Jews who contributed to, participated in, or were sympathetic with Zionist activities.†   (source)
  • We pledged allegiance to no government.†   (source)
  • (MARTHA laughs) There are very few things in this world that I am sure of ....national boundaries, the level of the ocean, political allegiances, practical morality ....none of these would I stake my stick on anymore ....but the one thing in this whole sinking world that I am sure of is my partnership, my chromosomological partnership in the ....creation of our ....blond-eyed, blue-haired ....son†   (source)
  • I was convinced that part of Mama's allegiance to Mrs. Poole was the fact that they were the two tallest women in town; they could be friends without making the other feel huge.†   (source)
  • Owe Allegiance Only to Constitution†   (source)
  • The Elite consisted of the twenty original clans who had sworn allegiance to our family.†   (source)
  • I wonder if Abdullah and the whole crew will suddenly shift their allegiances.†   (source)
  • Not long after his release, he made his way to Afghanistan and pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden.†   (source)
  • I am always a visitor, and my allegiance lies with other visitors, sons and daughters of accident and circumstance.†   (source)
  • Their entire emphasis now toward silence, impersonation, opposition masquerading as allegiance.†   (source)
  • For at Erech there stands yet a black stone that was brought, it was said, from Numenor by Isildur; and it was set upon a hill, and upon it the King of the Mountains swore allegiance to him in the beginning of the realm of Gondor.†   (source)
  • Your allegiance lies with Heaven, not with the world.†   (source)
  • For a moment shame washed over her for thinking the thought, shame at entertaining the notion in the same habitation where she shared room with Wanda and Jozef, these two selfless, courageous people whose allegiance to humanity and their fellow Poles and concern for the hunted Jews were a repudiation of all that her father had stood for.†   (source)
  • He was well dressed, almost elegant, the beard neatly trimmed, the grayish blond hair curling around his ears like the locks of an angel of ambiguous allegiance.†   (source)
  • ROPER The time has come for decent men to declare their allegiance!†   (source)
  • Missouri, a slave state, gradually came to feel more strongly that her allegiance belonged to her sister states of the South.†   (source)
  • But love, which had, perhaps, like a benevolent monarch, swelled the population of his neighboring kingdom, Death, had not himself descended: they owed him no allegiance here.†   (source)
  • She was putting my allegiance to the test.†   (source)
  • ...and our usual update on those friends of Harry Potter's who are suffering for their allegiance?†   (source)
  • He has no idea of your true allegiance, he trusts you implicitly still?†   (source)
  • And this is Bronn, a sellsword of no particular allegiance.†   (source)
  • I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.†   (source)
  • The ship was scarred and damaged and flew no colors to declare its allegiance.†   (source)
  • In general, however, where a wand has been won, its allegiance will change.†   (source)
  • She owes allegiance to none but herself, and won't balk at putting a knife through your heart.†   (source)
  • The way she uses these acts as currency, with which she barters for loyalty and allegiance.†   (source)
  • I have no allegiance to them, nor do I mean you harm!†   (source)
  • So my secret, my new allegiance to the Scarlet Guard, is mine.†   (source)
  • Is your allegiance with your current faction, Tobias?†   (source)
  • "Her allegiance is in no danger in this house," he announced angrily.†   (source)
  • I doubt she could turn our allegiances, Tanya.†   (source)
  • My pledge of allegiance, I call it, to all that is missing.†   (source)
  • A knight's allegiance to uncover the truth and make it known.†   (source)
  • "What allegiance?" asked the boy's mother.†   (source)
  • Handwritten across the bottom were the words: "This is how she says the Pledge of Allegiance."†   (source)
  • We'll take the legal position that they stayed under false allegiance.†   (source)
  • Is there a bond on your allegiance to your Duke?†   (source)
  • I will not claim ties of allegiance to the King of Adarlan.†   (source)
  • "My allegiance lies with anyone who does not support the attack on Abnegation," he says.†   (source)
  • Why don't you say the Pledge of Allegiance right?†   (source)
  • Do you not wish to give me your thanks and allegiance?†   (source)
  • How could you get Hawat to shift allegiance?†   (source)
  • Let it be thus: the man Idaho keeps the crysknife he holds as a mark of his allegiance to us.†   (source)
  • Who but an Atreides could command the allegiance of Gurney Halleck.†   (source)
  • "I want you to forge certificates of allegiance over the signatures of each of them," the Duke said.†   (source)
  • He has no allegiance; he is part of a wilder magic.†   (source)
  • For all Max knew, they had now sworn allegiance to the Demon.†   (source)
  • And if it was, then who was my greatest allegiance to?†   (source)
  • King Prusias requires only his blasphemous sword as the final proof of your allegiance.†   (source)
  • He came back to New York reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and saying, "I am given up, Mami!†   (source)
  • Lady Arryn owes you her allegiance, as do the Starks, your brother Renly, and all the rest.†   (source)
  • If you don't want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, you don't have to.†   (source)
  • To honor our past allegiance, my sisters have instructed me to press only half our rights.†   (source)
  • "His Majesty is the King to whom you have sworn allegiance," said Trufflehunter sternly.†   (source)
  • "Well, doesn't it perhaps mean that the magic word that opens the door is 'allegiance'?" said Jack.†   (source)
  • Your allegiance cannot be broken, unless by death.†   (source)
  • Even the Trident was scarce secure so long as the Lord of the Crossing withheld his allegiance.†   (source)
  • So I ask you, Onion Knight—what does Lord Stannis offer me in return for my allegiance?†   (source)
  • Years later she would renounce her allegiance to legalized abortion and become a pro-life activist.†   (source)
  • It's the one undivided allegiance, to all those people and things.†   (source)
  • But Terror would not take no for an answer and publicly switched his allegiance to the ANC.†   (source)
  • No longer locally owned, they feel no allegiance to any one place.†   (source)
  • I feared Daniel's participation in this matter-his allegiance to my husband is unquestionable.†   (source)
  • Even those officials not part of the original conspiracy are quickly swearing allegiance.†   (source)
  • In return, you will swear allegiance to the throne here in Uru'baen and whoever sits upon it.†   (source)
  • No, she had already demonstrated her allegiance.†   (source)
  • Men give their allegiance where they will, my lord.†   (source)
  • They follow a god who demands their allegiance and robs them of their freedom.†   (source)
  • After all, you were there, which proves my allegiance.†   (source)
  • There was no question about the crowd's allegiance.†   (source)
  • Fidelity to the king was far more widespread in KwaZulu than allegiance to Inkatha.†   (source)
  • He offers his allegiance to whatsoever king will break the siege.†   (source)
  • Down in the stands, the allegiances were more muddied.†   (source)
  • I will claim the Iron Throne by myself, with your swords and your allegiance.†   (source)
  • I suppose you would have spared the boy and told Lord Frey you had no need of his allegiance?†   (source)
  • "There's would be little point in hiding his allegiance to the Winter King now," he said.†   (source)
  • You may give the Book unto Lord Astaroth as a token of your allegiance and be richly rewarded.†   (source)
  • Can Robb have won the Crag's allegiance?†   (source)
  • There are allegiances greater than any that bind the Winter King and his servants.†   (source)
  • I propose that you dismount, bend your knee, and swear me your allegiance.†   (source)
  • The only puzzle is what you might have offered for his allegiance.†   (source)
  • When the time comes, those allegiances will be called upon, and you will not fight alone.†   (source)
  • Allegiances not bound by fear and pain, but by ancient promises of Spirit and Living Will.†   (source)
  • But in the space of a month I had failed to establish any allegiances.†   (source)
  • MORE And what allegiance are those designed to express?†   (source)
  • This imperial corps was envied by world governments as the most allegiant and deadly security force in the world.†   (source)
  • So she went to the oldest tree in Du Weldenvarden, pressed herself against it, and sang herself into the tree, abandoning all allegiance to her own race.†   (source)
  • When the Dauntless come closer, I see strips of blue fabric wrapped around their arms that can only signify their allegiance to Erudite.†   (source)
  • Only your allegiance.†   (source)
  • He had seen Bellatrix Lestrange inside Dumbledore's Pensieve, the strange device in which thoughts and memories could be stored: a tall dark woman with heavy-lidded eyes, who had stood at her trial and proclaimed her continuing allegiance to Lord Voldemort, her pride that she had tried to find him after his downfall and her conviction that she would one day be rewarded for her loyalty.†   (source)
  • Few refugee kids in Clarkston knew anything about American football, but Fornatee had been around long enough to develop a strong allegiance to the Atlanta Falcons, the local NFL team.†   (source)
  • All very well for Dumbledore to talk, but taking up a post at Hog-warts just now would be tantamount to declaring my public allegiance to the Order of the Phoenix!†   (source)
  • There was Dostum, the flamboyant Uzbek commander, leader of the Junbish-i-Milli faction, who had a reputation for shifting allegiances.†   (source)
  • I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.†   (source)
  • WE PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE to the flag.†   (source)
  • In a fight, if we could separate allegiances between allied covens, we could defeat them that much more easily.†   (source)
  • The dwarves can claim your allegiance as a member of Durgrimst Ingeitum, the elves will train and shape you-and their influence may be the strongest, for you and Saphira are bound by their magic-and you have sworn fealty to me, a human...Perhaps it is best that we share your loyalty.†   (source)
  • The new master removed the wand from Dumbledore against his will, never realizing exactly what he had done, or that the world's most dangerous wand had given him its allegiance...†   (source)
  • It is not enough, even if I could be certain that all of them will choose to give me their allegiance.†   (source)
  • Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United Stated of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese Emperor, or any other foreign government, power or organization?†   (source)
  • After the Pledge of Allegiance in the yard and the recitation of Bible verses inside the church, I would send a student back outside to look out for the superintendent.†   (source)
  • Remem-bering what Ollivander had told them of the secret workings of wands, Harry thought he knew what Hermione's problem was: She had not won the walnut wand's allegiance by taking it personally from Bellatrix.†   (source)
  • ....If I continue to accrue loyalties and allegiances at this pace, I'll be incapacitated before long-unable to do anything without breaking some oath!†   (source)
  • Allegiance.†   (source)
  • The Pledge of Allegiance, the Grisdale funeral, the Danny Pike affair—these things were noted, but they had no immediate impact on Stargirl's popularity at school.†   (source)
  • One day we found the following computer printout taped to the plywood roadrunner: "I pledge allegiance to United Turtles of America and to the fruit bats of Borneo, one planet in the Milky Way, incredible, with justice and black bean burritos for all."†   (source)
  • It had taken bravery to challenge him in his own ducal castle, especially since they now had Bewt's signature over a contract of allegiance.†   (source)
  • Would he accept a dual allegiance?†   (source)
  • And when I sought to comfort him, saying it was done according to an older law of self-preservation to which even the most ancient rulers gave allegiance, he sneered at me and asked if I thought him a weakling.†   (source)
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