Yet if the new Cabinet has no formal allegiance to the ruling party, it does not seem neutral.

This did not please his elder brother, the Young King, who demanded that both Richard and Geoffrey should swear formal allegiance to him.

There was a general assumption that traditional rights of all kinds were too fundamental to be overridden by a mere change in formal political allegiance.

But we won't convince them without some kind of formal allegiance among us.

They were part of clan Fraser, though they never gave a formal allegiance to Lord Lovat as chief.

The disorganized crew demonstrated formal allegiance to the Russian Provisional Government and even sailed out for a gunnery practice on orders from Alexander Kerensky.

Aquitaine (including the Duchy of Vasconia) pledged formal allegiance to the Frankish leaders several times (Odo in 732, Hunald in 736 after being defeated), but remained actually independent.

Aside from his formal allegiance to family, Randy's closest friend is Babs, the butler's daughter.

It is likely that al-Zarqawi had some contact with bin Laden but never took the bayat and never made any formal allegiance with the Saudi or his close associates.

The rest of us who did not swear formal allegiance to the king of Yurt, that is the priests, the royal family of Caelrhon, and I, stood together at one side, watching.