Sentences with phrase «in fealty»

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.

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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.

But the court's resistance to those claims was not, in my view, because of any mindless fealty to «separation between church and state» — quite the contrary.

Many Christians believed that since Jesus Christ alone is our Lord, and it is to Him alone that we must swear fealty, then any such oath to a flag, or a human ruler, is idolatry (cf. similar concerns raised by Greg Boyd in The Myth of a Christian Religion).

In the early centuries of the church, the Roman Empire also had it's banners and seals, and Roman Citizens were required by law to swear fealty to Caesar by stating some sort of Pledge of Allegiance to one of his banners or seals.

Tallulah13 «Frankly, the christian message at it's bare bones is simple: Swear fealty to the «one god» and you will be rewarded» = > not quite, it is faith in the grace and mercy of God to bring us through to the Promise

I argue that in Boston, Catholic culture lost first its integrity and then its power because Church leaders made the same fatal mistake, offering their first fealty to the church that is «it» rather than the Church that is «she.»»

And when the war was over, not only was their fealty to the Democratic party now graven in stone, anything that smacked of the old order or of the forces of America First was simply unthinkable — out of the question — anathema — to them.

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

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

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.

The other three parties, registered for the 1979 elections, were variants of these two major planks: the Nigerian People's Party (NPP), under Zik; its offshoot, Great Nigeria People's Party (GNPP), under Waziri Ibrahim, and the People's Redemption Party (PRP), under Mallam Aminu Kano, still bore ideological fealty to tendencies in the 1st Republic.

Nixon's campaign is trying to build on the playbook established by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in 2016, when he was able to draw thousands of small - dollar donors, a move intended to highlight his lack of fealty to special interests and corporations.

«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 race in Queens Council District 26 is similar, though in this case the machine candidate, Deirdre Feerick, appears to hold no fealty except to the Process.

Kwatra's temporary help was on some level a sign of fealty to Stringer — Kwatra has labor clients in his private consulting work — and one that represents a real potential problem for Spitzer.

«Meanwhile, hypocrites like Stewart - Cousins who pay fealty to powerful union thugs and bosses do more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood,» Loeb wrote in a Facebook post that he later deleted.

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.

And with Donald Trump poisoning the Republican brand, even if Democrats only pick up a few of those nine seats, the IDC will find it difficult to pledge its fealty to the Republican Party in 2017, in Hoylman's view.

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.

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).

In adapting Annihilation, the first book in the trilogy, writer / director Alex Garland has seemingly pledged fealty, attempting a speculative film with «weird» baked into its genetic codIn adapting Annihilation, the first book in the trilogy, writer / director Alex Garland has seemingly pledged fealty, attempting a speculative film with «weird» baked into its genetic codin the trilogy, writer / director Alex Garland has seemingly pledged fealty, attempting a speculative film with «weird» baked into its genetic code.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin zombie - like movies.»

At the beginning of the game, your chosen officer will have little or no standing in the conflict and so swearing fealty to an existing ruler proves to be a wise move in the early going.

The Salvation is hemmed in by its fealty to the ghosts of westerns» past, though a good, game cast offers quite a bit of compensation.

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.»

Many states also sanitize American history in order to foster fealty to the American way: the Texas Education Code provides that «textbooks should promote democracy, patriotism, and the free enterprise system.»

Fans of American pony cars practically swear fealty to Chevy, Dodge, or Ford; such is their pride in their chosen brand.

Oath of Fealty features the interwoven threads and political intrigue like her Vatta's War books, but in a fantasy setting.

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.

In Canada the United Empire Loyalists embraced Georgian architecture as a sign of their fealty to Britain, and the Georgian style was dominant in the country for most of the first half of the 19th centurIn Canada the United Empire Loyalists embraced Georgian architecture as a sign of their fealty to Britain, and the Georgian style was dominant in the country for most of the first half of the 19th centurin the country for most of the first half of the 19th century.

Here, we are treated to the fruits of Mapplethorpe's obsessive interest in form, texture, and the dramatic play of light and shadow, not to mention his fealty to honest representation of how some gay men interact.

Also, though it's not directly relevant to the issue of the most productive approach in terms of our own long term interests (which I think if people really understood this problem would involve a lot more fealty to moving off of FF now, and the idea of building even more coal plants — which are also responsible for most of the excess that allows bio accumulation of the serious neurological toxin mercury in our food supply, damages watersheds, mountain tops, sometimes whole communities and ecosystems, and, CC aside, is also very polluting — would be more apt to be seen as the idiocy it is), in some sense, no one has a full inherent right to anything really we as a world have built up: It has been a collective effort and you can only drive a Ferrari for instance, because of the hard work of countless others before you and along side you.

I've wondered this myself I fear it is an army of NGO soldiers urban rangers armed with tax free status self and mutually assured in their righteousness unknown and without fealty to any electorate huddled with false security on the rung of the ladder just beneath those that appointed them gifted in memo prose tolerant of endless policy meetings with the endurance of a Tour de France rider Phds in engineering who can't change a car tire Drs of French Poetry expert in environmental policy unbiased like no generation before washed vaccinated coiffed getting just the right amount of exercise as to not get too muscular their best athletic skill is typing whilst walking on a treadmill atheistic or at least agnostic suspicious of others who are not in therapy...

The Canadian Oath of Allegiance (also the first part of the Oath of Citizenship), an oath of government / judicial office, administered in the presence of the Governor General, is «a promise or declaration of fealty to the Canadian monarch».

... It's disconcerting that voices who have, in their former lives, sworn fealty to the Constitution, and a newspaper whose ability to express its views depends on it, are so quick to scream that law enforcement blew it when they comport themselves (somewhat) with the rules.

It comes as no surprise to me that a profession (in which I am officially licensed myself though I never formally practiced it) should take 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.