It also may be seen as the product of an allegiant orientation to the political system.

This imperial corps was envied by world governments as the most allegiant and deadly security force in the world.

In contrast, Britain and the United States are among those countries cited as exhibiting a strong allegiant orientation.

In another group, still allegiant to the gangsters, were men such as Shorty, Sorensen, Lars Jacobsen, and Larry.

Initially bellicose, Byres began to send away all those he suspected of being offensively minded-or of being allegiant to Drummond.

"There's no question that Monet was astonishingly allegiant to what lay in front of him," the Monet scholar Paul Hayes Tucker says.

As long as the political system has been able to maintain the capacity to meet the demands and expectations of citizens, an allegiant orientation has been demonstrated by citizens.

"But when I played, I hated the A.F.C." NBC is the American Football Conference network, so Simms is allegiant to it.

For your great graces Heap'd upon me, poor undeserver, I Can nothing render but allegiant thanks, My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty, Which ever has and ever shall be growing, Till death, that winter, kill it.

As I shall seek to show, the political culture remains predominantly an allegiant one, and the important question to be addressed is not "why has there been a decline in the civic culture?" but rather "why has that decline not been greater?"