Sentences with phrase «fealty from»

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.

Patrick strikes a shrewd balance of thunderous rage and soft - spoken authority while intensely portraying Gary as a perversely righteous paterfamilias who demands unquestioning fealty from his sons, and relies on death threats when blood ties are no longer sufficient.

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This tax - the - middle - class - more reality contrasts with the political rhetoric we hear from federal and provincial politicians, who have talked up their fealty to middle - class finances.

To be sure, from the days of the Exile on, the majority of Jews lived not in Palestine but in foreign lands, where they were played upon by alien customs and ideas, and in such a situation continued fealty to the ancestral faith was far more a matter of individual choice than it was in the homeland.

He describes spontaneous combustions, voluntary associations, movements which come into being without a charismatic leader or celebrity to whom members swear fealty and from whom they pick up jargon.

Crowe plays this note fairly well in his early scenes, his downcast eyes and reserved, low voice in front of the king indicating that fealty that comes from fear of punishment rather than devotion — a fear thoroughly justified when Robin's frank talk to his sovereign on the justness of these «holy wars» lands him in the stocks with proto — Merrie Men Will Scarlet (Scott Grimes), Little John (Kevin Durand), and Allan A'Dayle (Alan Doyle).

Adapted by writer - director Miyazaki from the children's book by British fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones, the film is a richly layered reflection on unreasoning patriotism, fealty to the state, war for war's sake and technology versus mysticism and nature.

Reynolds and co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (returning from 2016's Deadpool) understand that the film's irreverence is rooted in a fealty to the superhero genre.

Science fiction fans can easily imagine this scenario, thanks to building blocks like the communications implant from Oath of Fealty (1981) by Pournelle and Niven, and of course references to computer avatars from Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson.

Kang has decided to stitch together a world from across both time and the multiverse and dub the resulting mishmash Chronopolis, with all the worst characters from across the timeline pledging fealty to him.

If the equids are borrowed from Picasso and Cattelan, then the expressionistic passages of color pay fealty to Guston.

We are taught that we owe an undivided fealty to our clients, for whom we must advocate with a resolve tempered only by the duty to «advise and encourage a client to compromise or settle a dispute whenever it is possible to do so on a reasonable basis and... discourage the client from commencing... useless legal proceedings,» as the Model Code drafted by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada puts it.