party cry
Example Sentences
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He saw the danger of allowing responsible government to remain a party cry, and he removed "that most delicate and debatable subject" from party politics by conceding the whole position.
From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by Morison, J. L. (John Lyle)
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 Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)
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 Leighton, John
The party cry of ‘driving out the pollution’ was raised against the Alcmaeonidae and other families in Athens, who were supposed to lie under a traditional curse.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
The Juarists saluted him by their party cry, "Viva la libertad!"
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth
