rallying cry
IPA: rˈæɫiɪŋkrˈaɪ
noun
- A form of war cry that encourages people to unite in a common cause
Examples of "rallying-cry" in Sentences
- These are rallying-cry issues for A.M. radio fans, but how many Republicans actually reflect on such policies?
- These rallying-cry slogans appear in the memo, as do cartoons of Al Sharpton in a wetsuit ... renderings by Rove.
- The rallying-cry noun is offensive to many Muslims: three years ago, Osama bin Laden maligned U.S. forces in the Middle East as “crusader armies spreading like locusts.”
- The parallels with Israel and its annexation of the West Bank are inescapable: settlement, military occupation, resistance, and religion as an ethnic marker and rallying-cry.
- Another aspect - related to this authoritarianism - is that infamous rallying-cry of the right Political Correctness, or, to give it it's full title Political Correctness Gone Mad!
- Where "entertainment" is used as a rallying-cry, a banner to gather the troops round, often the underlying assumption is an imperative to provide escapism of the most unreconstructed variety.