Sentences with phrase «allegiance from»

Of course, the number of readers who have successfully resisted eBooks is diminishes all the time, and those of us who have gone over to the Dark Side (and switched our allegiance from «real» books to eBooks) are rarely tempted to look back.

We know they have shifted their allegiance from Adolf to the Red Skull because they now chant «Hail Hydra!»

You could call Ryan Murphy the prolific creator of primetime series, a four - time Emmy winner, or even the $ 300 Million Man for the megadeal he made to move his allegiance from Fox to Netflix.

We switch allegiance from one Thousand - Year Reich to another at the drop of the hat.

In 1919 the local MP, industrialist and major local employer Josiah Wedgwood shifted his allegiance from the Liberal Party — the Lloyd - George Coalition Liberals allying with the Conservatives — to the Labour Party and the seat has elected the Labour candidate who has stood since that date, a total of 29 elections in succession.

When Hinchey won a congressional seat in 1992, allegiance from his Democratic supporters never wavered even when Washington kept him away more often from local political activities than Albany did.

«I would not under any circumstances switch my allegiance from Secretary Clinton to Senator Sanders,» Queens Congressman Gregory Meeks said.

But here, the most effective deterrent is to secure an oath of allegiance from the tribes.

One potential complication in January is Zaha's decision to switch his allegiance from England to the Ivory Coast national team, meaning he is expected to play in the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon in January.

Brooks, who qualifies for Wales through his Wrexham - born mother, switched allegiance from England in August.

Costa endured plenty of criticism for switching allegiance from Brazil to Spain months before the World Cup began, though thoroughly merited his inclusion in the final 23 - man squad.

April 11 — Barcelona forward Munir El Haddadi has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in his bid to switch national allegiance from Spain to Morocco ahead of the World Cup.

The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) asked the governing body to grant them clearance so that the Barcelona forward could switch his allegiance from Spain to Morocco, the country of Munir's father's birth.

Costa endured plenty of criticism for switching allegiance from Brazil to Spain months before the World Cup began, though thoroughly merited his inclusion in the... [Read more...]

The young star recently changed his international allegiance from England to Nigeria, having previously been capped at Under - 16, Under - 17 and Under - 18 youth levels for the former.

I might be tempted to switch my greens allegiance from kale salad to baked spinach; it sounds SO tasty.

Something of a new cult, that has been called «scientism», developed in the popular mind, which reflected how popular opinion had switched its allegiance from Christian orthodoxy to science and technology.

How such theory is formulated is important to Christians, but this essay is focused on economic theory and the consequences of our having transferred our allegiance from political theory to economic theory.

Yes, this will make them God's people, but it will also mean a death of the self, and a radical transfer of allegiance from all systems and claims.

The report went on to note that one official thinks it's a «fool's errand» to estimate Taliban strength as «the fighters often change their allegiance from one terror group to another»:

1) If the fighters «change their allegiance from one terror group to another,» what difference does that really make?

The 19 - year - old, who is of Swiss - Turkish descent, recently switched allegiances from Switzerland to Turkey, having climbed the youth football ladder with one and playing full blown international football with the other.

An Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain stunner helped Arsenal FC beat Chelsea FC as Petr Cech made his competitive debut against his former side Chelsea FC after having switched allegiances from Stamford Bridge.

Will readers switch their allegiances from, say, the Boston Globe «s book review section to the online Barnes and Noble bookstore (BN.com) reviews, regardless of what newspapers want?

If you're already plugged into the Kindle ecosystem, I'll say at the outset that as good as iBooks 3 is — and it is very good — there's really not enough to motivate you to switch allegiances from Kindle to iBooks.

No, we are not sure where you can take it to be repaired (the console is not officially in India, remember), but we really do think this is tempting for all those who love gaming in gaming and those wanting to Switch allegiances from other devices in particular.

«One of the misperceptions around this is that it's meant to shift allegiances from one parent to the other,» says Horowitz.

Not exact matches

In an era of petty politics and cabinet ministers who put their principles second to their allegiances, Flaherty drew strength — even joy — from doing what he felt was right.

I don't know if that's just my West Coast allegiance, but I like her and I've seen Lululemon (lulu) go from a small regional player with one store on our street here in Vancouver to a huge success, one of the fastest - growing brands in the world and fast becoming one of the best known.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

Today, his ink proves his allegiance: The tats that sleeve his right arm are all about his favorite team, from the blue and orange logo to the beloved mascot Mr. Met.

What happens to young dreamers whose anger gets deliberately stoked by, I mean organized by... oh, but let's not name any more nameable allegiances and platforms from the days of yore!

The socies stole it from the pagans, owing allegiance to their copycat natures.

Advancing Romiosini or «Mother Russia» can deflect so many from their primary allegiance to God's kingdom.

We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.

I'd rather see «god» removed from the «pledge of allegiance» before we fought this battle.

The prime proponents of ID are the fine folk at the Discovery Inst / itute who openly admit that they purpose is NOT to teach what they think is true, but rather to use ID as a «wedge to defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies» and to separate science from it's allegiance to «atheistic naturalism».

Mormonism demands adherents» first allegiance is to Mormonism (which isn't necessarily any different from other religions), and ALSO gives adherents an ethical obligation to lie if it benefits the religion.

It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

Dante's political thought had moved from an early Guelph allegiance, reflecting the views of his intimates, to an essentially Ghibelline one.

Nevertheless, whatever loosening of religious demands or of theological orthodoxies may have taken place among dispersed Jews, Jewish nationalism continued unabated, and not until the highest levels of the prophetic teaching had been released from it could religion become a matter of free, personal choice, determined not by racial stock or national allegiance but by individual conviction

Is your response to this subject truly with a desire to free scripture and theology from the shackles of religion including the shackles of unscriptural Calvinism, or is your true allegiance to a theology of man's making, i.e. Calvinism?

Kids won't spontaneous combust if other kids say a voluntary pledge of allegiance in school, either... but that seems to get some attention from folks.

Because I could not hide this fact from myself and others, because I could not very well begin my lectures in Bonn with the salutation to Hitler, and because I could not very well swear an unconditioned oath of allegiance to the Führer, as I should have to do as the holder of a state office, I lost my position in the service of this state and was forced to quit Germany.

Its position around the corner from the Glasgow Orange Order - a Protestant fraternity who still march once a year to celebrate the victory of King William III over the Catholic King James II in 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne - may be a mere coincidence, the allegiance of its regulars to Rangers is not.

The assembled bishops - six metropolitans and thirty conventional bishops from all over Persia - threw themselves at the feet of the reluctant Dadyeshu and vowed him allegiance in terms that unequivocally set apart the church in Asia as free in Christ under its own head the Catholicos, not opposed to the west but equal in rank and authority to any western Patriarchate.

Either they will be guided by the spiritual leader of their church and withdraw support from the Republican «trickle down» economy advocates or they will choose their love of money over allegiance to their religion and follow Rush Limbaugh into his world of hatred and bigotry, his own little Hell.

Wherever there are signs of widespread social discontent and / or the fear of war, we have the conditions in which people are ready to give their blind allegiance to a charismatic, authoritarian leader in the belief that he or she will be able to restore a more ordered and secure environment and save them from a much worse fate.

Islamic expansion has been progressive, steadily spreading out from its original center (which retains a cosmic significance), claiming the allegiance of the whole world and, with few exceptions, maintaining the gains it has made.

In so doing it has differed in many respects from the Catholic Church in China, which is deeply divided between those who continue to voice allegiance to the Vatican and those who are willing to align themselves with a patriotic movement similar to the Protestant one.