Influenced by the cabalier spirit, his military poems showed an ambition of strong personal loyalty.

受侠义精神的影响，他的军旅诗表达了带有浓厚恩义色彩的个人抱负。

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Mubarak's will to power has known no bounds: he chooses all the country's elites based solely on personal loyalty to himself.

穆巴拉克的权力意志没有界限：他对全国精英的选拔完全基于对自己的忠诚。

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I know my junior fellow apprentice well. He looks like a rascal, very vulgar, but actually he is high-hearted than anyone. He stresses much on personal loyalty and principle.

我师弟我对他很了解，虽然他看似很无赖，很恶俗的，实际上他却比一般人都清高得多，很多方面很义气也很有原则。

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So, they make their personal or dynastic rule absolute based on loyalty to them as individuals and not to the state as some sort of abstraction.

所以,君主将个人或者王朝的绝对统治,建立在［民众］对其统治家族的忠诚,而非国家这样的抽象概念上

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Unsurprisingly, his appeals to personal loyalty have had a hollow ring.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Mr Assad rapidly filled their positions, but in a country governed by a clique held together by personal loyalty, the dead men will not easily be replaced.

ECONOMIST: Syria

Another tool that can come in handy is personal loyalty.

ECONOMIST: Could he lose?