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)
The Juarists saluted him by their party cry, "Viva la libertad!"
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth
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
Responsible government had ceased to be a party cry and had become the common heritage of all Canadians.
From The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor by Skelton, Oscar Douglas
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)
