Sentences with word «fealty»

In 1984 she confirmed her change of fealty in a scholarly forum.

Second, Duncan and Barnes said they'd be allowing states to apply for waivers in return for pledging fealty to elements of the administration's NCLB «blueprint.»

Mr. Loeb wrote this week that «hypocrites who pay fealty to powerful union thugs and bosses do more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood,» singling out the minority leader of the State Senate, who is African - American.

Blair pressed privatisation, deregulation, outsourcing, PFI, demutualisation and more in fealty to the market and the global corporate world.

While the fact that Szczesny had been at Arsenal for close to a decade and feels a clear sense of fealty with the club and fans led many to conclude that Ospina would be the player to make way for Cech, it now seems as though it is the Pole who has been sacrificed.

Don't be surprised if the announcement about Turner is accompanied by some sort of statement of fealty by the candidate to the Queens GOP organization in its current incarnation.

In the «MeToo» environment, though, a character like Christian who smothers his wife and demands fealty feels awfully problematic, and the movie never provides the balance to overcome these issues.

The inevitable result is weary cynicism among school practitioners... In hindsight, NCLB's passage was less about improving schools or fostering results - based public sector accountability than about declaring fealty to a gallant but utopian ambition.

Curran demonstrates less fealty to the political powers - that - be, more willingness to hear the public and do its will, and an unusual humility.

Mr. Jennings over the years has offered fealty to Cuomos Mario and Andrew.

And even Conrad Black saw fit to unleash a polysyllabic spree against the Law Society's initiative, decrying the Law Society for taking «unto itself the totalitarian power to exclude or otherwise punish anyone who declines to declare total fealty to principles enunciated by the professional self - regulator».

«While it's tempting to anthropomorphise the universe as something to which we owe good behaviour, I suspect such fealty is merely a way to chastise ourselves for the perceived sins of contemporary society.

Ask yourself — how can you claim that you respect human life while choosing fealty to weapons - makers over support for measures favored by the vast majority of your constituents.

The president, they noted, promised unwavering fealty last year to the National Rifle Association, drawing thunderous applause at its annual convention by declaring, «To the N.R.A., I can proudly say I will never, ever let you down.»

Their expressions of fealty toward or reliance upon that One God are plastered all over the monuments in Washington, for everyone to read.

«Sadly, Governor Cuomo has browbeaten or is owed fealty by every watchdog of state government,» Molinaro said.

As with the Irish Percentage Boy above, Mann's insistence on complete ideological fealty leads him to keep some very odd company.

-LSB-...] a freshman congressmen who is quickly becoming the poster boy for the Trumpcare train wreck, after putting blind fealty to an unpopular president party above the welfare of his constituents.

Henry arrived in England on the 8th of December and took oaths of fealty from the influential English Barons before being crowned at Westminster Abbey with his wife, the powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine, on December 19th.

Those whose fealty lies with Elizabeth I (1533 — 1603) should procure John Guy's new book anon.

Throughout ancient times, this kind of coerced fealty was required by powerful states and empires.

«It is partisan, it is mean spirited, it is cheap politics, it's un-American, it causes the congressional people to show fealty to their political leadership at the expense of their constituents,» Cuomo said in Selkirk.

The moody blue color palette underscores the self - assured repose — a feeling of complete fealty and ease with the painter.

Republicans, citing fealty to market competition and consumer choice, could also rally around prepaid doctor groups.

They counter what some consider the usurpation of power represented by the financial oversight board (PROMESA) imposed by Washington, whose primary fealty, they believe, is to the hedge funds who hold much of the island's $ 72 billion in debt.

Dollarama's owners inspire similar fealty in their employees.

The whipsaw changes roiled agriculture markets, and not everyone who makes a living off the land retained the same fealty to Trump as Wacker.

But I do want to know if a candidate places fealty to the Bible, the Book of Mormon (the text, not the Broadway musical) or some other authority higher than the Constitution and laws of this country.

I too share Hitchens's dislike for the utopian vision of a globalized state, where national differences disappear and some sort of coerced political fealty to a collective Oceania erases regional, cultural, linguistic, and tribal idiosyncrasy.

Some of them bowed in mock fealty, Wayne's World - style.

Result: Russia feeds fake news about Goodell, Brady, Bunchen love triangle to deflect coverage of Allen's attempts to seize power in exchange for George Allen's fealty after his next presidential run in 2020.

Watch the ad again, notice the glassy eyes, the pinched tone, the mechanic fealty psychologists who study Stockholm Syndrome call «capture bonding.»

In addition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fast hit - and - run appearance Friday, other pols paying fealty included state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Comptroller John Liu and Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio.

Corbyn's demand that MPs give him loyalty are fatally undermined by his absence of fealty over 32 years to Neil Kinnock, John Smith, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown or Ed Miliband.

And there are some early pointers as to how this is going to be done in an interview given by Owen Paterson, shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, and Marion Little, the Conservatives» «UK Battleground Director», to Mick Fealty on Slugger O'Toole over the weekend.

Unlike Asian women, Asian men tend to be much more authoritarian, conservative, religious and profess fealty toward their cultural values that are often incompatible with Western mores.

Other than a token fealty to the variable degrees by which characters» actions are governed by some sense of human connection instead of purely self - interest, Predators doesn't offer up much in the way of subtext or nuance.

In his eloquent fulmination on «the De Palma Conundrum,» The New Yorker's Richard Brody says, «De Palma's peculiar fealty to the history of cinema — his overt dependence upon the films of Alfred Hitchcock and his plethora of references to other classic filmmakers... results in zombie - like movies.»

They also expanded the role of other characters, whilst somehow managing to retain near fealty to Leonard's written words.

Talent agencies control their tarento (talent) much in the way the daimyō (feudal lords) controlled the samurai in their clans, supporting their livelihoods in return for absolute fealty.

The film, however, includes Zuckerman (David Strathairn) as nothing more than superficial fealty to the source material, and the film reflects Swede and Merry's breakdown largely at surface value.

Over and over again, Anderson obsessively considers a trap that's forged by a dysfunctional contrast between self and society, offering protagonists who wish to be alone yet are susceptible to loneliness anyway out of their incurable fealty to the human condition.