She's declared an end to her old allegiance.
They do carry within them some vague memory of the old allegiances.
For those who cannot afford it, family money and networks reflecting old allegiances in villages now under Israeli rule help pay school fees.
Many see Australia moving away from its old allegiances, towards a future firmly within the Asian region.
"To be a doubter," she writes, "is a great old allegiance, deserving quiet respect and open pride."
I suspect They think she could get the Lone One to give in and come back to Its old allegiance.
This was different still: an older allegiance, which had ruled the Highlands for a thousand years.
The most famous is the treaty of 1386 between England and Portugal, the world's oldest recorded allegiance between two nations.
The height of the stakes these days, though, were breaking apart all the old allegiances.
But of course, such a reorganization did not suddenly change the old allegiances of the people living in these areas.