Sentence examples for human allegiance from inspiring English sources

As another philosopher, Roger Scruton, has written: "Ideologies such as fascism which attempt to close the gap between society and state have invaded the institutions of sport … as ready objects of human allegiance, symbolic of local, territorial and national virtues".

Herein lies much of human conflict: two rigid metaphysics compete -- at times aggressively -- for human allegiance.

Sociologist Donald Tarter has conjectured that knowledge of extraterrestrial culture and theology has the potential to compromise human allegiance to existing organizational structures and institutions.

The contemptuous dismissal of nature as lacking intrinsic worth -- an unworthy competitor with God for human allegiance -- may no longer have mainstream credibility, but, like racism, it's part of the mindset that has shaped Western civilization.

Colonel Johnstone argues that "for every bad CERP project there are ten good ones".American commanders now consider the "human terrain" of tribal allegiances to be just as important as valleys and mountains.

"I would be very happy to swear allegiance to democracy, human rights and to my constituents, but I am not very happy about the idea of tugging my forelock to an unelected monarch".

A lifelong liberal, Styron was involved in many public causes, from supporting a Connecticut teacher suspended for refusing to say the oath of allegiance, to advocating human rights for Jews in the Soviet Union.

Whatever fear and insecurity, uncertainty and resentment drove the youth (and others) of his day to surrender their allegiance to a human "Führer," the outcome would never live up to the promises.

The forces of good and evil battled for the allegiance and the souls of human beings.

Edwards, in discussing the case study of stateless refugees and political migrants, explains: "the people-centered focus of human security, irrespective of one's attachment or allegiance to the state, is conceptually powerful for non-citizens.

In fact, some cosmopolitans have adopted a developmental psychology according to which patriotism is a step on the way to cosmopolitanism: as human individuals mature they develop ever wider loyalties and allegiances, starting with attachments to their caregivers and ending with allegiance to humanity at large.