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Example sentences for "loyalties"

Lexicographically close words:
loyalist; loyall; loyally; loyals; loyaltie; loyalty; loynes; loza; lozenge; lozenges
  1. The Moghul's seal meant less than nothing to highwaymen, or to servants and drivers whose loyalties were always for sale.

  2. But it's always difficult to know where their final loyalties lie.

  3. How else are men's loyalties to be guaranteed?

  4. It will stir in us loyalties that have long been asleep.

  5. We wished to carry on the war as we had carried on other wars, to our risk and peril, with all the loyalties of fighting men.

  6. It has absorbed the loyalties and fervor that used to be poured out upon art and religion.

  7. Most individuals are loyal to certain of these organizations and these loyalties are the social realities which must be recognized in any attempt to unite them in larger aims.

  8. At the same time, the railroad and trolley have abolished the isolation of the rural community and have made possible the diversion of local interests and loyalties to larger centers.

  9. In short, when the artist in him had abdicated, the family man, in whom personal and domestic interests and relations and loyalties take precedence of all others, had come to the front.

  10. We know what his instinctive religious tendency was; yet he had a fatal way of entangling his loyalties with very dogmatic ministers of the gospel.

  11. Emerson, in short, instinctively regarded his function, his loyalties and his responsibilities as those of the man of letters, the servant of humanity.

  12. The private loyalties which a man must have toward his own people, grounding as they alone can his morality and genius, need nevertheless to be seldom paraded.

  13. Its moments have nothing in common except their loyalties and a conspiring interest in what is not themselves.

  14. For such a man art will be the most satisfying, the most significant activity, and to load him with material riches or speculative truths or profound social loyalties will be to impede and depress him.

  15. She was one of those individuals, I perceived, whose loyalties dominate them; and who, in behalf of those loyalties, carry chips on their shoulders.

  16. She would not go herself: she would remain at Adelphi, faithful to the daily things, undramatic labors and loyalties that make civilization something more than a vision.

  17. I can never be free from the bonds of a hundred duties, responsibilities, loyalties to persons I love and principles I cherish.

  18. Naïve constancies to custom, habits sprung out of old conditions and logical no more, and even the cruder loyalties to the past, lived in it unchanged.

  19. Addington was very strong in him that night, the old decent loyalties to the edifice men and women have built up to protect themselves from the beast in them.

  20. The loyalties of the great characters of biblical and other times can be made the source of great inspiration; the supreme loyalty of Jesus to his mission will exert a powerful appeal.

  21. Is he taking such personal part in the various social and religious activities of the church and the community that he is "getting his hand in," and developing the attachments and loyalties which can come only through participation?

  22. A knowledge of its philanthropies will make a good foundation for the later loyalties to be developed toward the church as an institution.

  23. Not only must loyalties be secured, but these must grow out of a realization of the cost and worth of the cause or object to which loyalty attaches.

  24. I like a man to be more emphatic in his loyalties and aversions.

  25. That was a terribly modern accusation for you to make, Terry, just as if loyalties and affections were ostrich-plumes and ermine to be worn or discarded with the fashion.

  26. Mr. Bernard Shaw, as we have seen, will consent to tolerate the universe minus the three loyalties to the family, the nation, and God.

  27. Among those things which he has never seen are the loyalties involved in love, country, and religion.

  28. However, these units have questionable loyalties and capabilities.

  29. Significant questions remain about the ethnic composition and loyalties of some Iraqi units--specifically, whether they will carry out missions on behalf of national goals instead of a sectarian agenda.

  30. Can any vision of "internationalism" take the place of these powerful personal loyalties to racial ideals?

  31. Without these subconscious devotions and loyalties the human animal would be a forlorn complex of mind and sense.

  32. Intricate webs of village and family loyalties were tested to the limit in affairs such as TAT, the collapse of a savings bank in a pyramid scheme in which some top level officials were implicated.

  33. In a region where tribal and village loyalties predominate these are pertinent and important facts.

  34. Although the Macedonians themselves were divided in their sentiments between loyalties to Greeks, Yugoslavs, and Bulgarians, the land eventually reverted to Yugoslavia during World War II.

  35. In time of revolution, life is difficult, ancient loyalties clash with new yet living principles, sympathy and justice even are unsure guides.

  36. Leaders of great movements who have been successful in controlling the energies and loyalties of millions of men have been frequently men of this high and contagious voltage.

  37. It means that a man with qualities that sway men's emotions and stir their imaginations can attach to himself the profoundest loyalties for personal or class ends.

  38. Prothero's mind, replete with historical detail, could find nothing but absurdity in the alliances and dynasties and loyalties of our time.

  39. The tradition of nationalism and patriotism, around which have gathered our chief political loyalties and instincts, has become in the actual conditions of the world an anti-social and disruptive force.

  40. And all these loyalties conflicted at one time or another during the turmoil of the war.

  41. During the Great War there was a confusion of loyalties that has not yet been cleared away.

  42. Unless we can develop loyalties beyond the borders of our own country, all efforts to abate the horrors of war are bound to be futile.

  43. No doubt there were other loyalties that were urged on my attention, but the list given is sufficient.

  44. Ye-es; but loyalties cut up against each other sometimes, you know.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loyalties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.