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• Allegiance (disambiguation) — Allegiance is the duty which a subject or citizen is widely expected to owe to the state to which he belongs.Allegiance may also refer to:In music:* Allegiance (As Blood Runs Black album), the debut album by Deathcore band As Blood Runs Black *… …   Wikipedia

• Allegiance — Al*le giance, n. [OE. alegeaunce; pref. a + OF. lige, liege. The meaning was influenced by L. ligare to bind, and even by lex, legis, law. See {Liege}, {Ligeance}.] 1. The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• The Centre Party —     The Centre     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Centre     (THE CENTRE PARTY).     This name is given to a political party in the German Reichstag and to a number of parties in the diets of the various states of the German Empire. The oldest… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• State and Church — • The Church and the State are both perfect societies, that is to say, each essentially aiming at a common good commensurate with the need of mankind at large and ultimate in a generic kind of life, and each juridically competent to provide all… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Church —     The Church     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Church     The term church (Anglo Saxon, cirice, circe; Modern German, Kirche; Sw., Kyrka) is the name employed in the Teutonic languages to render the Greek ekklesia (ecclesia), the term by which… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Oxford Movement (1833-1845) —     The Oxford Movement (1833 1845)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Oxford Movement (1833 1845)     The Oxford Movement may be looked upon in two distinct lights. The conception which lay at its base, according to the Royal Commission on… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Inhabited Island — English theatrical poster Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky Sergei Melkumov …   Wikipedia

• allegiance — I noun adherence, adherence to duty, attachment, bounden duty, call of duty, case of conscience, commitment, constancy, deference, devotedness, devotion, duteousness, dutifulness, faith, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, fides, homage, imperative… …   Law dictionary

• The Vicar of Bray (song) — The Vicar of Bray is a satirical song (Roud # 4998) recounting the career of the Vicar of Bray and his contortions of principle in order to retain his ecclesiastic office despite the changes in the Established Church through the course of several …   Wikipedia

• The Green Book (IRA training manual) — The IRA Green Book is a training and induction manual issued by the Irish Republican Army to new volunteers. It was used by the post Irish Civil War Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Cumann na mBan, ( League of Women ), along with offspring… …   Wikipedia