Sentence examples for professed allegiance from inspiring English sources

But Gavin Long's life also became a web of paranoid ideas, a professed allegiance to an antigovernment "sovereign citizen" group and a belief that bloodshed was a better tool than peaceful protest in the fight against oppression.

On Sunday, the mayor's unfortunate choice of socks threatened to undercut his professed allegiance to the Yankees over the Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series, and he was forced to change into tan ones before completing the Hispanic Day Parade in Manhattan.

They do spell out so clearly the principles of democracy, including the sometimes vexing question of majority rule versus minority rights, to which Mandela adhered throughout his time in prison, and to which his African National Congress has always professed allegiance (sometime unpopularly so, at times in its long history).

Moreover, even when philosophers professed allegiance to the Vedas, their allegiance did little to fetter the freedom of their speculative ventures.

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.

A world without trade barriers, in which markets spread a balm of democracy, is another Reagan dream to which Bush has professed allegiance.

Third, in keeping with the principle that states may not condition public employment upon professed religious allegiance or association with a political party, the court concluded that public employers may not require "an employee to contribute to the support of an ideological cause he may oppose as a condition of holding a job" as a public educator.

"I am honouring the dead heroes who died for their country," he said.The image of self-professed "patriots" suspending their allegiance to their native lands in favour of a universal solidarity with fallen soldiers of a former adversary was extraordinary.

In September last year, a group known as the Soldiers of the Caliphate in Algeria swore allegiance to self-professed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Still, many professed optimism.

He was a professed socialist.