party cry
Example Sentences
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While we have always demanded emancipation and enfranchisement for the African race, we have no great enthusiasm for "negro suffrage" as a party cry, because it is too narrow and partial for the hour.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
It was a "party cry" to insist on all occasions upon the trouble which he took in his "trade of King" and the great fatigues which he endured for the public good.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine
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 Colin Munro
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 Oscar Douglas Skelton
