Sentences with phrase «sense of their allegiances»

When I left the boardroom of the Des Moines Partnership on the Monday after Thanksgiving, I had no clear sense of their allegiances.

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The question of allegiance is a pressing one for the Jesse Jacksons of the black church who must decide who they ultimately represent: the black community, a coalition of ethnic groups, the Democratic Party or a sense of moral right in the universe.

To be a person in any satisfactory sense is to have a characteristic way of life — a system of ideals and values that one has adopted as his own or to which he has declared his allegiance.

And yet, those of us who profess allegiance to these traditions can not always suppress a sense that no matter how hard we listen, we often do not hear anything:

I feel a distant sense of kinship with Mexicans but no political allegiance to the regime in Mexico City.

«In the perspective of the Bible, conversion is turning from idols to serve a living and true God and not moving from one culture to another and from one community to another as it is understood in the communal sense in India today», and further that so long as baptism remains a transference of cultural or communal allegiance, «we can not judge those who while confessing faith in Jesus, are unwilling to be baptised» (Renewal in.

There is an overwhelming mass of noise from certain quarters easily betraying their political allegiance as they invoke the name of the Supreme Deity (God) and their local «gods» (conceived and characterized in diverse senses and guises) to sustain the NPP's Akufo - Addo that he is divinely destined to defeat President Mahama at Election 2016.

Effective bird dog training aims to consolidate the dog's basic sense of obedience and allegiance to its master.

In Ocarina of Time, Ganondorf pledges his allegiance to the King of Hyrule, but Zelda senses that he has evil intentions [1].

The Popism artists in Melbourne in the mid-1980s — including Maria Kozic, Phillip Brophy and Peter Tyndall, among others — owe no obvious visual allegiance to Richter's work, but he was conceptually influential, as was his sense of irony.

About the Abstract Expressionist movement and his fellow artists Motherwell said: «But really I suppose most of us felt that our passionate allegiance was not to American art or in that sense to any national art, but that there was such a thing as modern art: that it was essentially international in character, that it was the greatest painting adventure of our time, that we wished to participate in it, that we wished to plant it here, that it would blossom in its own way here as it had elsewhere, because beyond national differences there are human similarities that are more consequential...» (5)

Like Martin, Black claims allegiance to the legacy of Abstract Expressionism; in a sense, she has extended it into the twenty - first century, if one can call a transformation an extension.