This means they often feel a primary loyalty to the party and will vote contrary to conscience to support a party position.

More important, however, many lobbyists now owe their primary loyalty to the party, rather than to the industries they represent.

Slammer had been there too, but more aloof, so was not the primary loyalty.

At least that's what spies believe, so their primary loyalty is to their own group and the other groups playing the same game.

It impressed on him that he was expected to maintain a primary loyalty to the bloc of younger men among the scientists.

I understand that your primary loyalty must be to your native city.

If there was any- thing he disliked, it was a man who didn't know where his primary loyalties lay.

The auditor's primary loyalty must be to the board and investors.

I hate to say this, but at this point, American and all that, my primary loyalty is here.

Our primary loyalty is to our children: they are ours, and we love them.