Sentence examples for declaring loyalty from inspiring English sources
He played his cards well, declaring loyalty to the new military head of state, Major-General Johnson andiyi-Ironsi, and became governor of the Eastern region.
On one hand the opposition is attempting attract this broad constituency by casting its activities in religious terms: calling for reform not revolution, using Shia holidays to organise rallies, and declaring loyalty to Khomeini's vision.
They were addressed to Imam Hussein himself, declaring loyalty and expressing readiness to die in his battle which now takes the form of defending the supreme leader and the Islamic system.
With Yom Kippur approaching, Rabbi Shemtov was trying to encourage Mr. Greenfield to do the tefillin prayer — which includes strapping a pair of black leather boxes containing biblical verses around the head and on the arm, hand and fingers and reciting a prayer declaring loyalty to God and a request for blessing.
On the other hand, these terms blur the enemy in the now globalized war on terror, throwing Muslims in a quandary between practicing their faith and declaring loyalty to governments that paint their religion as inherently dangerous.
The otter-koi conflict led to people in Vancouver and beyond to start declaring loyalty to one animal or the other, pronouncing themselves as either Team Otter or Team Koi.
It was on that call that Mateen declared loyalty to Isis.
In a video made beforehand, one bomber, Mohammad Sidique Khan, declared loyalty to "our beloved sheik, Osama bin Laden".
The breakaway church had split in 1927, after the Moscow church's leader declared loyalty to the Communist government.
The video, in which Afghan and Pakistani fighters declare loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the 'caliph' of the Islamic State, was presented by Shahidullah Shahid, a former Taliban spokesman.
The Muslims of Beirut resented the inclusion of the city in a Christian-dominated Lebanon and declared loyalty to a broader Pan-Arabism than most Christians would support.
