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a person who loves his or her country and supports its interests and policies
die-hard loyalists engaging in espionage against the revolutionaries
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Recent Examples of loyalists
But after a week of berating the national retailers, Berry Chantilly loyalists forced Whole Foods to listen to their requests.
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Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
The government, for its part, lagged badly in providing these emergency services but wasted no time pushing through its broader program of consolidating power by eroding civil liberties and installing political loyalists in less-visible professional and technical levels of government.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
His team would consist not of experienced, independent advisers but of blind loyalists, many among them dedicated to carrying out the plans in Project 2025 to deconstruct the national security apparatus, including the military, to ensure its absolute obedience to the chief executive.
—Alexander Vindman, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2024
His government seized thousands of farms and turned them over to ZANU–PF loyalists, decimating Zimbabwe’s once vibrant agricultural sector and triggering the kind of economic collapse rarely seen outside of a war zone.
—Tendai Biti, Foreign Affairs, 20 Aug. 2019
Many see their own state bureaucracies as holding outdated and overly politicized perspectives—which may be true, although this state of affairs tends to arise because ruling elites often hand out good government jobs to regime loyalists without much regard to merit.
—Calvert W. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
The government, for its part, lagged badly in providing these emergency services but wasted no time pushing through its broader program of consolidating power by eroding civil liberties and installing political loyalists in less-visible professional and technical levels of government.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
His team would consist not of experienced, independent advisers but of blind loyalists, many among them dedicated to carrying out the plans in Project 2025 to deconstruct the national security apparatus, including the military, to ensure its absolute obedience to the chief executive.
—Alexander Vindman, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2024
His government seized thousands of farms and turned them over to ZANU–PF loyalists, decimating Zimbabwe’s once vibrant agricultural sector and triggering the kind of economic collapse rarely seen outside of a war zone.
—Tendai Biti, Foreign Affairs, 20 Aug. 2019
Many see their own state bureaucracies as holding outdated and overly politicized perspectives—which may be true, although this state of affairs tends to arise because ruling elites often hand out good government jobs to regime loyalists without much regard to merit.
—Calvert W. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
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