What I find particularly striking is the sense of loyalty developing among cosmopolitans.

And, in both North and Sub Saharan Africa, brand loyalty is strong, averaging 58 .

The Thai military is constitutionally subordinate to civilian leadership, but in reality it owes its allegiance to the Palace.

Before 2000, there was an influential, independent press and a parliament loyal to the president, but still independent.

However, this decree allowed persons who satisfied certain requirements of faithfulness to the Czechoslovak Republic to apply for retention of Czechoslovak citizenship.

I could not believe I had pledged allegiance to research, where our job you know, the definition of research is to control and predict, to study phenomena, for the explicit reason to control and predict.

To tap into this sense of allegiance and loyalty through an organized public gathering was an inspired idea, which India continues to build upon each year.

Nidaa Watan chanted in the name of their allegiance to King Abdullah, branded with symbols of patriotism, carrying pictures of the king as their tone and language grew in aggression.

These units, most of which are not controlled by the PNA s central leadership, are more loyal to grassroots figures than to uniformed PNA officers.

It will correspond freely with A Central Prisoners of War Information Agency ... created in a neutral country to act as a conduit with the Power to which the prisoners of war owe their allegiance.

The Federation Council (the upper chamber of the Duma), too, was generally loyal to the president, as were regional governors, while remaining independent.

What was true in Merton s day is becoming even more starkly true in today s globalized economy. What I find particularly striking is the sense of loyalty developing among cosmopolitans.

The only candidates allowed to run were men with impeccable religious credentials, loyal to a regime whose most important decisions are made by unelected clerics.

An imperial order in 1890 outlined the objectives of education the Confucian concepts of loyalty, obedience, and filial piety were to be transferred from the family to the nation.

As the three pillars of Western Middle East policy crumble, a new Middle East is taking shape, buffeted by Pacific trade winds and owing allegiance to more than one power.

The Thai military is constitutionally subordinate to civilian leadership, but in reality it owes its allegiance to the Palace. In the current crisis, army generals have told the public that they are reluctant to use force, a position that was not theirs to take.

Still, the specter that haunts me is the same ordinary people facing off against an autocrat s airpower and well armed soldiers, counting on the free world to protect them against massacre after we have applauded and bolstered their bravery with our words.

On March 13, 2016, forces from al Nusra Front and Jund al Aqsa, another jihadist group that later pledged allegiance to ISIS, launched an overnight attack against the FSA Division 13's base in Ma'arat al Nu'man, in what would later be known as the Second Battle of Ma'arat al Nu'man.

When I open my eyes and I see my sons in the place where my father once sat, I feel an invisible loyalty and love linking my sons to the grandfather whose face they never had a chance to see, but whose heart and soul they have come to know through all the stories I have told.

Brezhnev s model resembled a bad marriage, exhausted of love or respect, in which the spouses constantly cheat, take advantage of each other, and grab each other s property, though the powerful husband occasionally reminds his wife that he is boss and demands at least a formal pledge of loyalty or else.