So why then did the IOC's members stay so loyal to their former president?
Angelenos tend to be intensely loyal to their own neighbourhoods but indifferent to the surrounding megalopolis.
Other forces, notionally under the new Hamas government's orders, stayed largely loyal to their Fatah commanders.
The two presidential front-runners are not just loyal to their fathers: they are fixated on them.
But authors, playwrights and actors tend to be loyal to their agents, rather than the firms that employ them.
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They are more self-indulgent in their purchasing, more individualistic in their wants, and more loyal to their favorite brands.
The village school is run by the Shabab, but only those loyal to their cause are allowed to attend.
Here's one of our biggest findings, and CEOs hate it: People are more loyal to their teams than to their companies.
Gen Ys will do anything that makes sense to them, including reading, paying a fair price, and being loyal to their employer.
Fewer than one-quarter of consumers surveyed feel very loyal to their providers, while another quarter said they have no loyalty at all.
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Judging by what they told pollsters, they were also more ambitious than Western women, and more loyal to their employers than men.
Japanese workers are extremely obedient, hard-working and loyal to their group.
While any neighbourhood will have plenty of coffee options, Seattle residents feel very loyal to their particular district and tend not to move far once they have found their niche.
The second reason, which is even more important in the long run, is to make me happy and to want to remain buying and loyal to their brand!
Militia members across Libya remain loyal to their groups and distrust the new government's authority, in part because of the "taint" of a link to the Gadhafi regime, Wehrey said.
While the majority of Iraq's security forces are loyal to their commanders and to the central government, and support the coalition forces they fight alongside, many Iraqi units have been infiltrated by enemy forces - most prominently, by members of Iranian-sponsored Shi'ite militias.
Militia members across Libya remain loyal to their groups and distrust the new government's authority, in part because of the "taint" of a link to the Gadhafi regime, said Frederic Wehrey, a senior associate in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
But the substance of his speech made absolutely clear that while Obama and his advisors are concerned that for the first time in 80 years a significant number of American Jews may abandon the Democratic Party, they are unwilling to pay even the slightest substantive price to keep the Jews loyal to their party.
Executives at Sorrell's operating companies, trying to explain their complex and shifting alliances, say they have "dual nationalities, " loyal to both their specific brand and to WPP.
Special advisers, he added, should be "highly intelligent", "unequivocally loyal" to their ministers and able to "scrutinise the work of mainstream civil servants".
That macro effect happens when people stop thinking of themselves as loyal only to their current employer, and when they start thinking of themselves as ongoing participants in the broader community.
The Fatah activists who took to their guns are loyal to the cause but not, unconditionally, to Mr Arafat.
They cleaned up criminal gangs and enforced an amnesty, agreed with Israel, in which militants loyal to Fatah surrendered their weapons.
Ever scanning weather reports for big waves, surfers are also famously loyal, whether to their significant other or one another, especially when in the water.
With the failure of an abortive campaign to intimidate Slovenia into withdrawing its declaration of independence, forces loyal to Milosevic turned their full terror on Croatia.
Yes, it would be nice to reward loyal fans for doing their best to make the game environment a better place, but how might this be taken advantage of to score free product?
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And many of the hype artists were the big old enterprise companies, struggling to stay in the game, and hang on to their loyal customers, until they can come up with a competitive response to the newcomers.
But they should deal with it, as it has the potential to run off some of their most loyal customers to whom they have just given the wonderful gift of lifetime premier status.
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Second, the Obama administration should explain and possibly reevaluate its vetting process for foreign national employees of or advisors to American embassies, particularly in Egypt, where Egyptian nationals loyal to the military regime have used their embassy positions to deny Coptic religious asylum requests to the United States.
Mr Cardenas's success threatens only to widen the gap between people loyal to his father and their opponents.
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