Example Sentences

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Three men have been arrested by detectives investigating a series of recent attacks in the north Down area, linked to tensions within loyalism.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2023

It is based on loyalism not being a cohesive body.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2022

Traditions of republicanism and loyalism thrive in areas where there are close community networks and extended families; communities where codes of loyalty and sacrifice are handed down from one generation to another.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2018

Typically, girl group loyalism falls into the benign end of human self-sorting.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2016

The British, with the old cry of "loyalism," and with Orangemen in the van, rioted, mobbed the Governor, and burnt down the Parliament House at Montreal.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Childers, Erskine