Sentence examples for profess allegiance from inspiring English sources
It's too bad, then, that these days you're not considered serious in Washington unless you profess allegiance to the same doctrine that's failing so dismally in Europe.
The Visigothic king was theoretically ruler of only his own people, whereas the Hispano-Romans continued to profess allegiance to a rapidly vanishing imperial authority.
It applies to members of regular armed forces who "profess allegiance to a government or authority not recognised by the detaining power" (which covers the Taliban soldiers) and also members of militia or volunteer corps forming part of those forces.
They're not mainly about goals: Whoever the Democrats nominate will profess allegiance to a progressive agenda aimed at reducing inequality, strengthening the social safety net and taking action on climate change.
They do what I did: They get someone -- friends with kids in the school, someone connected, someone famous -- to put in a word, and they write sycophantic letters in which they profess allegiance to the school's educational philosophy, promise to work their tails off for the parents association and read their child French fairy tales at bedtime.
On Article 4, it says: The expression "members of regular armed forces" denotes armed forces which differ from those referred to in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph in one respect only: the authority to which they profess allegiance is not recognized by the adversary as a Party to the conflict.
In professing allegiance to Gertz, the plurality opinion protests too much.
A perpetrator, apprehended quickly due to CCTV footage, professes allegiance to Isis but claims to have acted alone.
Moreover, even when philosophers professed allegiance to the Vedas, their allegiance did little to fetter the freedom of their speculative ventures.
A world without trade barriers, in which markets spread a balm of democracy, is another Reagan dream to which Bush has professed allegiance.
Mateen professed allegiance to the terror group Isis in a 911 call during the hostage crisis that ensued after he murdered 49 people inside Pulse on Sunday morning.
