Its folklore and legend, usually disguised as history, are allowed to account for group actions, to provide a focal point for group loyalty, and to become a cohesive force for national identification.

* Edgar Degas ( a realist who despised the term Impressionist, but is considered one, due to his loyalty to the group ) ( 1834 – 1917 )

Mad has provided an ongoing showcase for many long-running satirical writers and artists and has fostered an unusual group loyalty.

Members of a profession have also been defined as " workers whose qualities of detachment, autonomy, and group allegiance are more extensive than those found among other groups ... their attributes include a high degree of systematic knowledge ; strong community orientation and loyalty ; self-regulation ; and a system of rewards defined and administered by the community of workers.

At a time of political unrest, with changes from Hindu Rajput rulers to Muslim Moghul emperors and viceroys, and possibly back again, a wise group would display allegiance to both creeds, but its ultimate loyalty was probably only to itself.

In the meantime, a group of Hungarian noblemen swore loyalty to the last Anjou monarch, Ladislaus of Naples, putting their hands on the relic of Saint Ladislas of Hungary in Nagyvárad.

These captive slaves were not considered part of the ethnic group or ' tribe ', African kings held no particular loyalty to them.

Prominent legal challenges in the 1950s were brought by the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group whose beliefs preclude swearing loyalty to any power other than God, and who objected to policies in public schools requiring students to swear an oath to the flag.

In adulthood, his loyalty to Buffy and her group of friends costs him his job for a time.

The term " Anglo-Irish " is no longer commonly used to describe southern Irish Protestants, or Protestant citizens of the Republic of Ireland as a group, since — despite retaining a certain distinctive identity — they have mostly been keen to stress their Irishness and loyalty to the Republic of Ireland.

Despite their loyalty, the ethnic group faced economic and political adversity at hands of the white population during times of economic hardship for whites.

These factors, combined with the fact that Southerners have continued to maintain strong loyalty to family ties, has led some sociologists to label white Southerners a " quasi-ethnic regional group.

Major themes in Natsume's works include ordinary people fighting against economic hardship, the conflict between duty and desire ( a traditional Japanese theme ; see giri ), loyalty and group mentality versus freedom and individuality, personal isolation and estrangement, the rapid industrialization of Japan and its social consequences, contempt of Japan's aping of Western culture, and a pessimistic view of human nature.

Baron agrees with Ladd, inasmuch as loyalty is " to certain people or to a group of people, not loyalty to an ideal or cause ".

:: It is a social group toward which a member feels respect and loyalty.

Hazing is often used as a method to promote group loyalty and camaraderie through shared suffering ( male bonding in fraternities ), either with fellow participants, past participants or both.

On the morning of, a group of officers commanding about 3, 000 men assembled in Senate Square, where they refused to swear allegiance to the new tsar, Nicholas I, proclaiming instead their loyalty to Constantine and the Constitution.

If the Bond prompted disloyalty and insubordination in some of the Cape inhabitants, it also caused loyalty and patriotism in another group.

Finding the Cabal insufferable, Sir William Coventry resigned as Secretary to the Admiralty and went back to the House of Commons, where he emerged in 1669 as the formidable leader of a group of parliamentarians known as the " Country Party "-a group of MPs held together by their suspicion of corruption in high places, suspicious of the king's dubious foreign policy and, increasingly, suspicious of his loyalty to Protestantism.

This introduced the concept of orientation to work and distinguished three main orientations: instrumental ( where work is a means to an end ), bureaucratic ( where work is a source of status, security and immediate reward ) and solidaristic ( which prioritises group loyalty ).

# Wedge-driving rumors intend to undermine group loyalty or interpersonal relations ( e. g. American Catholics were seeking to avoid the draft ; German-Americans, Italian-Americans, Japanese-Americans were not loyal to the American side ).

Among the natives, though Corsican nationalism is strong, and feeling often runs high in favour of a union with Italy, loyalty to France, as evidenced by elections, remains stronger.

Druze are known for their loyalty to the countries they reside in, though they have a strong community feeling, in which they identify themselves as related even across borders of countries.

The Italians expected disaffected potentates like Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, Ras Mengesha Yohannes, and the Sultan of Aussa to join them ; instead, all of the ethnic Tigrayan or Amharic peoples flocked to the Emperor Menelik's side in a display of both nationalism and anti-Italian feeling, while other peoples of dubious loyalty ( e. g. the Sultan of Aussa ), were watched by Imperial garrisons.

Cowdrey writes, " he ( Gregory ) was surprisingly flexible, feeling his way and therefore perplexing both rigorous collaborators ... and cautious and steady-minded ones ... His zeal, moral force, and religious conviction, however, ensured that he should retain to a remarkable degree the loyalty and service of a wide variety of men and women.

A number of Maya states at first pledged loyalty to Spain, but revolted after feeling the heavy hand of Spanish rule.

The Churchill's loyalty to the royal household was ardent ; and their only feeling about Arabella's seduction on King James II seems to have been a joyful surprise that a so plain girl had attained such high preferment.

Land reform, instead of allying the peasants with the government, produced large numbers of independent farmers and landless laborers who became loose political cannons, with no feeling of loyalty to the Shah.

In 2010, King revealed that she was offered a ministerial job in 2000, if she spoke publicly against Ken Livingstone however she refused feeling it was too harsh on him despite her unreserved loyalty to the government.

He later wrote of feeling suddenly " bereft of friends ... a castaway adrift on a sea of anger and recrimination, an object of distrust ... torn between loyalty to principle and loyalty to friends and associates.

Beneath an apparent cynicism and frivolity Taaffe hid a strong feeling of patriotism to his country and loyalty to the emperor.

This approach would also result in army officers being more professional, instead of feeling personal attachment and loyalty to the province and region from which they came.

* The loyalty and feeling of inclusion in the social history or collective essence of an institution or group, such as in school spirit or esprit de corps.

Jimmy the Hand, a young thief, foils an assassination attempt on the prince by a fellow thief, and feeling loyalty toward the prince from previously aiding his escape from the city with Princess Anita ( in Magician ), he chooses to warn the prince of the attempt on his life instead of reporting the traitor to the Mockers, Krondor's powerful and highly organized guild of thieves.

The motivation behind this may be to increase the number of users of a system, to assert the superiority of one choice over another or out of brand loyalty, pride in an operating system's abilities, or to persuade software vendors to port specific applications or device drivers to the platform.

Aware of the military superiority of the well-trained Swedish army, the nobles of Greater Poland surrendered to Wittenberg on 25 July in Ujscie after the Battle of Ujście, and then pledged loyalty to the Swedish king.

In the US, loyalty to one sanctioning body or another is a fundamental example of brand loyalty, where devotees of one, vigorously assert the superiority of their chosen body over all others.

PRA recruits were required to take an oath of loyalty to the NJM party and the natural superiority of Marxist socialism as a basis for government.

He is harsh and shows no affection for his dog, but White Fang still displays loyalty toward him out of respect for his superiority.

A torn individual, Raistlin exhibits a strong superiority complex ( as far as his power in magic and his intelligence are concerned ), and knows almost nothing of true loyalty to others ( although, despite this, Raistlin usually keeps his promises and pays his debts ).

Atahualpa's final victory over Huáscar in the days just before the Spanish conquerors arrived resulted in large part from the loyalty of two of Huayna Capac's best generals, who were based in Quito along with Atahualpa.

Through this, the Fujiwara would gain influence over the next emperor who would, according to Japanese family tradition, owe loyalty his grandfather.

John hesitated and decided not to attack Louis immediately, either due to the risks of open battle or over concerns about the loyalty of his own men.

The Libertarian International – founded at the Congress of Saint Imier a few days after the split between Marxist and libertarians at the congress of the Socialist International held in The Hague in 1872 – competed successfully against social democrats and communists alike for the loyalty of anticapitalist activists, revolutionaries, workers, unions and political parties for over fifty years.

This illustrates the amount of influence the firm has over the market ; because of brand loyalty, it can raise its prices without losing all of its customers.

Morocco's claim to sovereignty over the Sahara is based largely on an historical argument of traditional loyalty of the Sahrawi tribal leaders to the Moroccan sultan as spiritual leader and ruler.

Leaving a large force behind to prosecute the siege, he moved off towards Évreux, which Prince John had handed over to his brother to prove his loyalty.

Initially a small branch of the Sturmabteilung ( the " Brownshirts " or Stormtroopers, abbreviated in German as SA ), the SS grew in size and power due to its exclusive loyalty to Adolf Hitler, as opposed to the SA, which was seen as semi-independent and a threat to Adolf Hitler's hegemony over the party.

In August 1982, mutineers in the Seychelles Army, maintaining loyalty to Rene but in revolt against alleged conditions in the service, took over the radio station.

Although many colonists no longer believed that Parliament had any sovereignty over them, they still professed loyalty to King George, who they hoped would intercede on their behalf.

Gladstone claimed that this decree had placed British Catholics in a dilemma over their loyalty to the Crown and their loyalty to the Pope.

* March 8 – Hachikō, the loyal dog who was remembered for his loyalty to his owner, even many years after his owners death, passes away on the very same spot he had waited for over nine years.

In 1860, Ogden switched his loyalty to the Republican Party, which shared his views regarding slavery, although he left the party over a dispute with Abraham Lincoln.

Clive Bell published an appeasement pamphlet ( he later supported the war ), and E. M. Forster wrote an early version of his famous essay “ What I Believe ” with its choice, still shocking for some, of personal relations over patriotism: his quiet assertion in the face of the increasingly totalitarian claims of both left and right that " personal relations ... love and loyalty to an individual can run counter to the claims of the State ".

* Gratian, age 16, takes over the government at Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ), but ministers wishing to retain the loyalty of the Illyrian army and fearing a usurper.

In 620 BC Nabopolassar seized control over much of Babylonia with the support of most of the inhabitants, with only the city of Nippur showing any loyalty to the Assyrian king.

Lewis and other party members were attempting to strengthen loyalty to the Welsh nation " over the loyalty to the British State ".

The issue of loyalty emerged in the debates over the Wade – Davis Bill of 1864.

This requisite loyalty statement stirred concern and protest from the American Association of University Professors and over 153 institutions.

Protesting his loyalty, he aimed to be recognised as Henry VI's heir apparent ( Henry was childless after seven years of marriage ), while also trying to destroy the Earl of Somerset, who Henry may have preferred to succeed him over York, as a Beaufort descendant.

Because of disagreements with the dean over her taking a loyalty oath and submitting to fingerprinting, the campus was thrown into protests and she was forced to go to court to remain able to teach.