Sentence examples for direct allegiance from inspiring English sources

Hunting through a chest of Anne's clothes, James discovers two banned books – William Tyndale's New Testament and the same author's The Obedience of a Christian Man, which argues that kings owe direct allegiance to God, rather than the Pope.

It encouraged detailed research of classical Japanese literature, formed a philosophical base for a systematization of Shintō, and promoted direct national allegiance to the emperor rather than the shogun especially when the shogunate seemed to fail in its duty to repel the encroaching Western powers.

If the latter prevail, the theory is deontological; on this approach, punishment is seen either as a good in itself or as a practice required by justice, thus making a direct claim on our allegiance.

However, we tried to measure all possible direct and indirect indicators of allegiance.

They say this allegiance has a directed mission statement focused on hijacking opiate users' brains "for profit".

Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia (which had all been dependencies of Aragon), as well as Milan, came under direct Spanish rule and owed their allegiance to the sovereign according to their own laws and traditions.

The reference to "porous borders" represents a direct volley at McCain and an allegiance with Trump on the immigration issue -- and Trump's racist remarks about Mexicans -- that originally initiated tensions between El Donaldo and the Arizona Senator last week.

The book "directs Muslims not to give their allegiance to governments that invade Muslim lands," the authorities said.

He then sought aid from Moscow against Poland and in 1654 directed his Cossacks to take an oath of allegiance to Alexis, the tsar of Russia (see Pereyaslav Agreement).

Stable governments rule not by direct coercion but by establishing a shared sense of allegiance.

While IS requires the direct investors or operators of fields to have pledged allegiance to the insurgency, he noted, "those buying the oil and refining and/or transporting it for delivery need not have".