party cry
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A party cry seldom becomes extinct; but its successful revival demands the sense of some tangible grievance.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
It remained for a second French revolution, combined with the infatuation of English tories, to supply the motive power which converted a party cry into a national demand for justice.
From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by George C. (George Charles) Brodrick
A subscription was opened in the columns of the Marseillaise to replace the sequestrated animal, and "La vache à Gambon"—"Gambon's cow"—became a derisive party cry.
From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by John Leighton
Yet he lent himself to the party cry that Pitt was taking his first measures for the re-enslavement of Ireland.
From Burke by John Morley
It believed the denunciation to be a mere party cry, a scream of disappointment and impotence from those who held no places and controlled no patronage.
From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Alexander Johnston
