10 sentences with 'loyalists'

Example sentences and phrases with the word loyalists and other words derived from it.

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« It was not only British loyalists who condemned the unruly mob. »
« Julius Caesar returned to Rome two years later after hunting down Pompey's remaining loyalists. »
« This system of rewarding party loyalists is known as the spoils system (from the expression "to the victor go the spoils"). »
« Meanwhile, New York City served as a refuge for loyalists who disagreed with the effort to secede from the Empire and establish an American republic. »
« To break the stalemate, the British revised their strategy and turned their attention to the southern colonies, where they could expect more support from loyalists. »
« Lucrative positions, such as postmaster and deputy postmaster, went to party loyalists, especially in places where Jackson's support had been weakest, such as New England. »
« The major campaigns of the following years took place in the middle colonies of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, whose populations were sharply divided between loyalists and patriots. »
« Rewarding party loyalists with government jobs led to spectacular cases of corruption. Perhaps the most notorious occurred in New York City, where a Jackson appointee made off with more than a million dollars. »
« In 43 BCE they took control in Rome and then launched a successful campaign against the old Republican loyalists, killing the men who had killed Caesar and assassinating the strongest senators and elites who had tried to restore the old institutions. »
« The Nationalists triumphed in Spain in early 1939, having cut the pockets of loyalists among themselves. They were recognised internationally as the legitimate government of Spain and, despite their promises to the contrary, immediately began retaliating against the now defeated Loyalists. »

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