Sentence examples for mixed loyalties from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gingrich always had mixed loyalties.

Such are the mixed loyalties thrown up by playing for club and country.

American politicians are still citizens of our states and cities, while C.E.O.'s are increasingly citizens of the world, with mixed loyalties.

Mixed loyalties no doubt but a glance from Jordan towards the stand at extra cover might have reminded him of his heritage.

Naturally, there is someone in their midst with mixed loyalties, and they are all aware they might well be used as sacrificial pawns in a larger game, where loyalty and treachery happily coexist.

When I visited the CIA a few years ago, a senior official said that the agency policy was never to keep an agent in any given country for too long, lest he develop mixed loyalties.

The superintendent came into office last May on a divided vote, and the mixed loyalty is showing, too.

Maybe, in time, they will.Devolution is trickier when disaffected components of larger units—eg, Bosnia, as it broke away from old Yugoslavia consist of populations whose ethnic make-up is mixed and whose loyalties are therefore divided.

As a result: divided loyalties, mixed signals, confused players/workers, lower scores/profits.

The whole affair is a case of incoherent management – loyalty mixed with blindness to the facts – by the ECB and the head coaching triumvirate of the past year and half: Andy Flower, Ashley Giles and Peter Moores.

Tens of thousands who are serving in the Iraqi military and police often show questionable commitment to the defense of their country because of their mixed ethnic and sectarian loyalties and poor preparation, as we have seen in Mosul.