Sentence examples for mere loyalty from inspiring English sources

Cat, old herself, round and grumpy in a large apartment filled with Caribbean art, her white hair done up in a kerchief, still stubborn in her belief that Maddy should be cherished, a belief that does not come from mere loyalty.

His appointment yesterday was widely viewed not as a mere reward for loyalty to the pope, but as an acknowledgment of his work in keeping open the doors of communication between the Vatican and dissenters in the United States.

A "mere theoretical division of loyalties" was not enough to call the validity of the conviction into question, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the majority.

But Justice Scalia said for the 5-to-4 majority in Mickens v. Taylor, No. 00-9285, thet the dual representation was a "mere theoretical division of loyalties" that did not call the conviction or sentence into question.

To downgrade the Church of England to a mere institution, and to imply that loyalty to it is unworthy, sits remarkably strangely with their declarations to the Queen but fits mere "formal administrative links".

The lives denied them are not ones of mere survival but ones of intimacy, loyalty, and joy.

This is not mere defeatism on my part, but loyalty to a sort of uniformitarianism.

"Out 1" is filled with the tangles of group dynamics and nostalgia for a time of concerted action undertaken by group members whose mutual loyalty and fierce commitment went beyond mere friendship to a sort of fanatical, cultlike devotion.

Mere days after the Instagram acquisition, Tagtile, a consumer loyalty mobile application, announced that it was also being acquired by Facebook.

Loyalty, longing, and even grief are, the evidence suggests, mere mimic emotions projected into two far simpler ones that dogs actually possess: adherence to the food-giver and anxiety about the unfamiliar.

Or better yet, she would have suggested some job leads and likely earned the life-long loyalty of the college grad, something far more powerful than mere online connections.