party cry
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It is happily only a party cry, and that only of so meagre a nature, that it is almost an inaudible squeak.
From Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter by Colin Munro
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
While we have always demanded emancipation and enfranchisement for the African race, we have no great enthusiasm for "negro suffrage" as a party cry, because it is too narrow and partial for the hour.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is the least vulnerable of the three, and for this reason it is the least fitted to furnish a party cry.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
Well, Father Rowley has really managed to make out of what was becoming a sort of ecclesiastical party cry something that really is evangelical and at the same time Catholic.
From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie
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