Their history has been a constant quest for national identity: a conflict between strong regional loyalties and central authority.

They had generally taken on regional loyalties according to residence.

Far from being unified, the movement is torn both by regional loyalties and by the specific interests of its member unions.

This is not the benign regional loyalty where we stress our differences for the fun of it.

The beverage was beer, Olympia, out of regional loyalty.

It is coupled with a pronounced tendency to form political alliances based on regional loyalties.

The race turned on more personal and political factors, from friendships to regional loyalties.

In a country where regional loyalties are intense, firm Soviet rule kept the peace.

The great appeal of world football is the strong national and regional loyalties.

It does not want to field a military that is essentially a collection of local units with regional loyalties.