party cry
Example Sentences
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Yet he lent himself to the party cry that Pitt was taking his first measures for the re-enslavement of Ireland.
From Burke by John Morley
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
The Juarists saluted him by their party cry, "Viva la libertad!"
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
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 Alexander Johnston
