Sentence examples for Professed allegiance from inspiring English sources

Moreover, even when philosophers professed allegiance to the Vedas, their allegiance did little to fetter the freedom of their speculative ventures.

Mateen professed allegiance to the terror group Isis in a 911 call during the hostage crisis that ensued after he murdered 49 people inside Pulse on Sunday morning.

A world without trade barriers, in which markets spread a balm of democracy, is another Reagan dream to which Bush has professed allegiance.

Behind these forms, the men who effectively ruled were members of the popolo grasso ("fat people"), consisting of bankers and businessmen of great wealth, who professed allegiance to the Guelf party.

Some Zimbabweans told me that to avoid being targeted by Mugabe's thugs and henchmen, as in 2008, they falsely professed allegiance to Zanu-PF by attending rallies and party activities and making donations to the party.

According to U.S. war correspondents visiting the Yan'an area in May 1944 and to a group of U.S. observers that established itself there in July, the communists professed allegiance to democracy and to continued cooperation with the Nationalist government in the war effort.

The Visigothic king was theoretically ruler of only his own people, whereas the Hispano-Romans continued to profess allegiance to a rapidly vanishing imperial authority.

It's too bad, then, that these days you're not considered serious in Washington unless you profess allegiance to the same doctrine that's failing so dismally in Europe.

It applies to members of regular armed forces who "profess allegiance to a government or authority not recognised by the detaining power" (which covers the Taliban soldiers) and also members of militia or volunteer corps forming part of those forces.

They're not mainly about goals: Whoever the Democrats nominate will profess allegiance to a progressive agenda aimed at reducing inequality, strengthening the social safety net and taking action on climate change.

9 p.m. 2) Get Your Licks On Cantabrigians take their ice cream seriously, with some factions professing allegiance to Toscanini's molto-rich versions and others loyal to Herrell's, which has a trademark on the "smoosh-in".