Reputations are volatile. Loyalties are fickle.

Second, reporting lines follow personal and political loyalties rather than constitutional arrangements.

Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet. We speak for earth.

Especially in the case of Chinese, fears of divided national loyalties and fifth columns have been strong.

Local tribespeople sent 450 fighters to support the effort, marking a change in loyalties for the tribes of the region.

How I define the age of behavior is a period of transnational allegiances, where identity is defined more so by ideas and narratives.

That ultimately argues for transparency and paid models, so that consumers don t wonder what other allegiances companies may have.

How I define the age of behavior is a period of transnational allegiances, where identity is defined more so by ideas and narratives.

Similarly, it is apparent that there is very little, if any, accountability other than that based on informal and extra constitutional loyalties.

Attempts by a bevy of beauties to seduce Bond fail, but Mimi Lady Fiona becomes so impressed with Bond that she changes loyalties and helps Bond to foil the plot against him.

In the 1960 s, the Somalis wanted to vote right away Kenya wanted to wait 40 or 50 years while it went about its nation building, or reshaping tribal allegiances into a Kenyan identity.

In retrospect, it is remarkable that this distinction managed to define partisan political allegiances for more than 200 years, absorbing both the great reactionary and radical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The point is that eventually, despite strong regional loyalties and various cultural and religious differences, the majority can identify as being simply Pakistani even though they may harbor radical differences about what this might mean.

States in the Middle East are becoming weaker than ever, as traditional authorities, whether aging monarchs or secular authoritarians, seem increasingly incapable of taking care of their restive publics. As state authority weakens, tribal and sectarian allegiances strengthen.

Khalidi describes the Arab population of British Mandatory Palestine as having overlapping identities, with some or many expressing loyalties to villages, regions, a projected nation of Palestine, an alternative of inclusion in a Greater Syria, an Arab national project, as well as to Islam.

Especially in the case of Chinese, fears of divided national loyalties and fifth columns have been strong. One need only recall the recent case of Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who was unjustly accused of spying, to be reminded of how yin and yang are America s feelings about minority members in sensitive positions.