A spokesman for the leader denied it had been a cull of the Blairites: "He's replaced disloyal Blairites with loyal Blairites".
But Grant was never seriously implicated in any of them, although emboldened Democrats and disloyal Republicans, with the help of a sensationalist press, did their best to make the president appear the villain.
Re "Why Buybacks Aren't Always Good News" (Fair Game, Nov. 12), which said some stock repurchases could be bad for shareholders: Discussions of stock buybacks often don't mention that they reward disloyal shareholders with cash.
The Qaeda threat inherited from the communist threat a striking set of parallels: an alien ideology seeking to impose its will by way of a worldwide conspiracy; a suspected web of underground cells inside the United States; concerns about disloyal citizens with a secret allegiance to the enemy.
And being impartial to those who are a part of you — through blood or creed or association or profession (think of the thin blue line) — is not to be virtuous, but to be ungrateful and disloyal, more concerned with hewing to some abstract principle of respect for all than with discharging the obligations that come along with your most intimate relations.
Al Qaeda does not offer social services, he says, and it has had more trouble historically with disloyal members.
He soon took the war to these "great fools," whom he considered disloyal, confronting them with arrests, fines and newspaper and trade suppressions.
He is not openly disloyal, but, as with the speech he made last weekend, he increasingly hints at how a Brown premiership might differ from a Blair one.
The rebellion was crushed, but it revealed to Mary and her chief minister, Cardinal Pole, that the kingdom was filled with disloyal hearts who placed Protestantism and nationalism higher than their obedience to the throne.
In 2013, the Times reported that Heywood was becoming "an increasingly controversial figure in Whitehall": "not explicitly disloyal" to ministers with whom he disagreed, but "unhelpful to the government".
