Sentence examples for command allegiance from inspiring English sources

Democracy puffs itself up, but politicians wonder privately how long its eroded routines will continue to command allegiance.

His De otio ("On Leisure") contrasts the single commonwealth embracing gods and men in a cosmic and cosmopolitan citizenship, with the ordinary multiple commonwealths to which the accidents of birth assign us (though these also rightly command allegiance) (4.1).

But none among the council representatives "is a truly national figure who can command allegiance in all provinces and across all tribes," Dirk Vandewalle of Dartmouth College told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 6.

Mr. Brown, 51, is the dark, shambling one who commands allegiance with a formidable intellect and disciplined appeals to people's sense of duty.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi commands allegiance verging on idolization among her ethnic group, the Burman, who make up about two-thirds of Myanmar's population of 55 million.

Kennedy: This is serious, because the law commands allegiance only if it commands respect.

Civil war indeed beckons, not because Assad is a charismatic leader who commands allegiance, but because his downfall could spell the loss of influence for a large class of people who can't see how they would fit into a post-Assad order.

Although social movements often command substantial allegiance for many years, at some point their supporters' commitment begins to falter.

But for the time being, at least, the president still seems to command the allegiance of a majority of lawmakers, rendering her dismissal by Congress unlikely.

Tsotsi has a certain surly charm, enough to command the allegiance of a small gang, and we're introduced to him on a particularly dreadful day.

Forced by circumstance to defend her life and honor, she learns to command the allegiance of soldiers and the attentions of a wealthy aristocrat.