Sentence examples for group allegiance from inspiring English sources
In the broadest sense, it means allegiance to one's group: allegiance without shades of gray, excluding the claims of other groups; allegiance in the pursuit of power as the group's right; allegiance regardless of the facts.
Groups of communists waved Soviet flags, and several hundred nationalists marched in in a phalanx crying in unison: "Russia for ethnic Russians!" However, the majority of demonstrators showed no party or group allegiance, and many had fashioned their own placards.
One way to manage ingroup/outgroup biases is to shift group allegiance by muting certain membership cues and highlighting others.
Educated progressives and liberals tend to welcome change, are comfortable with mobility (their own and other people's), and not especially bothered about belonging, indeed are suspicious of most group allegiances.
In other words, the nature of online communication in the corpus on which the original study was based brings with it a heightened sense of social space, group allegiances, and the need to maintain virtual 'face'face
It is clear that, for now at least, the American military has won the groups' allegiance.
Libyan armed groups pledging allegiance to the group control areas of central Libya including Sirte, Harawa and Nofliya, and have claimed responsibility for a number of attacks, including on oil fields, checkpoints and petrol stations, it said.
Meanwhile, the group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an insurgent group operating primarily in Iraq and Syria, in March 2015.
Members of the Afghan Taliban have released a video showing the group pledging allegiance to their new leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
The group pledged allegiance to Isis in March and now calls itself the "West African province" of the so-called Islamic State.
A few weeks ago, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a veteran Islamist and a Taliban rival, proclaimed his group's allegiance to ISIS, and urged his fighters to attack the Taliban.
