divided loyalty

collocation in English

meaningsofdividedandloyalty

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divided
adjective
uk
/dɪˈvaɪ.dɪd/us
/dɪˈvaɪ.dɪd/
split into two or more opposing groups who ...
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loyalty
noun
uk
/ˈlɔɪ.əl.ti/us
/ˈlɔɪ.əl.t̬i/
the quality of ...
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(Definition ofdividedandloyaltyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We can understand hisdividedloyalty.
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Their will and freedom to criticise fearlessly will not be inhibited by problems ofdividedloyalty.
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That would create adividedloyalty, and we believe that is wrong.
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They dealt clearly with the question ofdividedloyaltyand rebutted it.
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And that at once brings us up against adividedloyaltyin a national park.
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There isdividedloyaltyin the appointment of an outside trade union representative to represent employees in all conceivable circumstances.
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In most cases, it is better that the child should go to one parent or the other, and not have thisdividedloyalty.
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The problem is the potential fordividedloyaltyfrom which any trade union member must always suffer between his employer and the trade union.
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When there is a conflict of interest with a solicitor offering services to a customer of his employer, there is adividedloyalty.
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The difficulties of life come from the fact that you getdividedloyalty.
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It seems to me that this talk ofdividedloyaltyis a mere red herring.
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I submit there has been no evidence at all of the operation of this so-calleddividedloyalty.
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We have heard a great deal aboutdividedloyalty, about the necessity for preventing divided allegiance.
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The usual word used is "loyalty"; they cannot havedividedloyalty.
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This is nodividedloyalty.
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I approach this matter with slightlydividedloyalty.
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Does he agree that, with the revised arrangements, people must now feel that they no longer havedividedloyaltyto external organisations?
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We are told that the industry must be nationalised because ofdividedloyalty; that it cannot go on as at present because, if it did, there would bedividedloyalty.
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We cannot have adividedloyaltywith officials responsible, on the one hand, to a locally elected committee, and, on the other hand, to an area board.
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He did not attempt to elaborate that or to substantiate it and, as a matter of fact, thedividedloyalty of which he speaks never came into operation at all.
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