1.   A number of communes were independent of any seigneur, and owed allegiance to the Crown alone.

2.   The Empire, a loose alliance of city-states and provinces owing allegiance to its Emperor, and the kingdom of Bretonnia.

3.   He owes allegiance to them for all the help they have given him.

4.   New ruling administrators owed allegiance to the state.

5.   It was conducted, too, in French since France was the country to which most of them owed intellectual allegiance.

6.   The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and owe allegiance to a wide diversity of schools of thought.

7.   Americans owed allegiance to political parties almost as they did to religions.

8.   A person is considered a dual national when he owes allegiance to more than one country at a time ...

9.   About a third report that they owe no allegiance to either party.