Turnout tends to be higher in nations where political allegiance is closely linked to class, ethnic, linguistic, or religious loyalties.

Ethnic, national, religious and other loyalties usually predominated over straight class interest.

In this instance, a shared middle-class aspiration trumped religious and tribal loyalties.

Volunteers came to fight for a variety of reasons including religious or ethnic loyalties and in some cases for money.

There's little new or surprising about appeals to ethnic, racial or religious loyalties.

The question about her religious loyalties had obviously unsettled the girl.

In earlier times, people had tended to have overlapping political and religious loyalties.

In Lebanon, a patchwork quilt of religious loyalties paralyses the State.

However, in some areas where religious loyalties remain strong, such loyalties can still alter the pattern of class voting.

The marriage was to be plagued by domestic strife over religious loyalty until Julia's death.