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Example sentences for: fealty
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Most but not all in this core swore fealty (or bayat) to Bin Ladin.
Oaths of fealty were demanded from Scottish nobles, while English officials were installed to oversee the running of the country.
Of course, the notion that Asian-Americans are torn between an outward allegiance to this country and a hard-wired fealty to some Oriental motherland has a long and undistinguished pedigree.
An article explains that Al Gore enlisted for the Vietnam War out of fealty to his father and distaste for draft dodgers: Gore deplored "the inequity of the rich not having to serve."
Everywhere we turn today, it seems fashionable to conceive of American minorities as communities in exile, sojourners who owe greater fealty to their racial kinfolk, wherever they might live, than to their own neighbors, whoever they might be.