party cry

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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)

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

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 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 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