fealty

How To Use fealty In A Sentence

• While President Obama swore fealty to free trade, he also called for "balanced growth," which is diplo-speak for U.S. efforts to get China to spur domestic consumption and rely less on exports. Will Marshall: Does America Have a China Policy?
• As all watched, Maelgwn crossed the sand, knelt before Llewelyn, and swore an oath of homage and fealty to the Prince of Gwynedd. HERE BE DRAGONS
• All kinds of groups use fear to terrorize the loners and coerce fealty from those who don't want to be a target.
• Homage and fealty performed by the great men after the coronation were arguably of greater practical importance than the ceremony itself.
• In that same vote, Israel abstained, apparently fearing international interference with their own outlaw nuclear weapons program, and Britain abstained in an act of diplomatic fealty to the “special relationship” between Tony Blair and George Bush. Think Progress » The Pictures of Corruption: How Hastert Used Tax Dollars to Turn a $1.5 Million Profit
• The team dispersed in ignominious defeat, and it was not until after dark that the dogs came sneaking back, one by one, by meekness and humility signifying their fealty to White The Love-Master
• May they soon come, in penitence, to pledge eternal fealty to the nation. The Curtained Throne
• It has never been part of any serious concept of America to believe that we must show blind fealty to whosoever happens to be in a public office at any given moment.
• Why, look ye," said the latter, as the coin jingled in his bag, "I was ever held in good repute as a guide, and can make my way blindfold over the bogs and mosses hereabout; and I would pilot thee to the place yonder, if my fealty to the prior -- that is -- if -- I mean -- though I was never a groat the richer for his bounty; yet he may not like strangers to pry into his garners and store-houses, especially in these evil times, when every cur begins to yelp at the heels of our bountiful mother; and every beast to bray out its reproaches at her great wealth and possessions. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
• The land was held not "in fee simple" with absolute ownership, a concept which was not a part of English law at the time; but it was granted "in free and common soccage" with the holder a tenant of the King with obligations of fealty and of the payment of a quitrent. Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699