11 sentences with 'loyal'
Example sentences and phrases with the word loyal and other words derived from it.
• « Cyrus II continued the practice of finding loyal leaders and treating his conquered enemies fairly, which minimised uprisings against him. »
• « The Persians may have had relatively loyal subjects, after all, but if it took months for messages to reach them, even loyal subjects could make decisions with which the kings would disagree. »
• « As long as they were loyal, paid taxes and sent troops when called upon, Persian kings had no problem letting their subjects practise their own religions, use their own languages and carry out their own trade practices and customs. »
• « He continued to advance into India for several months, following the southern Indus, but eventually his loyal but exhausted troops refused to move on. »
• « They shared the wealth distributed after military victories and could play an active role in politics as long as they remained loyal, while those who resisted were eventually crushed and defeated with only their pride to show for it. »
• « The problem for the Republic was that, although Lucius Cornelius Sulla eventually proved that he was loyal to republican institutions, other generals might not be so in the future. Sila could simply have remained in power indefinitely thanks to the personal loyalty of his troops. »
• « In fact, Julius Caesar was loyal to almost no one, not even old friends who had supported him, and he also cynically used the support of the poor to his own advantage. »
• « In the first century, most Roman soldiers became career soldiers loyal to a specific general who promised tangible rewards rather than volunteers who served only in a given campaign and then returned home to their farms. »
• « The inhabitants of the Roman provinces were accountable to their own legal systems as long as they were loyal to Rome and paid their taxes on time. »
• « In many cases, powerful nobles could field personal armies as large as those of the king, especially since armies were almost always a combination of loyal knights (by definition members of the nobility) on horseback, supplemented by peasant levies and mercenaries. »