party cry

Example Sentences

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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 MacKenzie, Compton

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)

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 Johnston, Alexander

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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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 Munro, Colin