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

Lady Tyrrell—all the ladies, in fact—have set their minds on it, and if I objected there would instantly be a party cry against me, and that is the one thing I have always avoided.”

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

He belonged to no camp; he was a slave to no party cry; utterly unselfish, his sole aim was to seek after the truth for the sake of truth, and to proclaim it.

From An Outline of Russian Literature by Baring, Maurice

Yet he lent himself to the party cry that Pitt was taking his first measures for the re-enslavement of Ireland.

From Burke by Morley, John