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 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

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

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)

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