The phrase
"rally cry" refers to a strong and inspiring message or call to action that encourages people to come together, support each other, and strive towards a common goal.
Full definition
Over the past couple of years there's been a growing
rally cry in support of failure.
As always they ignore the cause and source for real examination and promote a «men are all violent to kids and mothers too»
rally cry from the opposition.
My wife and I now own a dance studio and employ nine teachers, this will be my
new rally cry.
Me too is definitely an
awful rally cry and not what I would want to associate with when sharing serious experiences about actual sexual abuse.
Manifestos like this one may make for great
rallying cries for the bigger - is - better crowd, but ultimately they rely on an absolute impossibility — that resources are limitless, and that each of us is free to do exactly as he or she pleases.
By extension, should we revisit the «college - for - all»
rallying cry of many education reform efforts?
But charter schools and the parental choice movement that goes along with them have also
become rallying cries for conservative groups and the Tea Party movement that's praised the business - like approach to education and want to see a larger expansion of the schools.
You see, as the developers found out after doing the second one without the community, kickstarters can often work
as rallying cries for a game's fanbase and a way for players to feel more involved.
In many respects, Pence's conservative
rallying cry against tobacco regulation is similar to more recent conservative hobby horses: campaigns against energy - efficient lightbulbs and against attempts by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban some vendors from selling large sodas.
Despite the lack of evidence that such issues have arisen anywhere, the charge has been an emotional
rallying cry on the right.
But the phrasing could also boomerang, given the Nixon campaign's occasional parrying of insults like «unqualified lesbian»
into rallying cries.
Refusal to accept corporate donations has become a new
rallying cry among progressive senators.
To conclude, I'll paraphrase his famous
rallying cry when the stock market crashed in 2008 and despair reigned:
Kinder Morgan's 1,000 - kilometre expansion project has become a
national rallying cry for environmentalists, sparked protests from Indigenous communities, caused a trade war between two provinces and brought about the arrest of a federal party leader.
Ricky Gervais held sadistic sway over the show on the four occasions he hosted; accepting last year's DeMille award, Meryl Streep delivered a resistance
rallying cry just days ahead of President Trump's inauguration.
That's the
old rallying cry of Alberta's firewall movement of the early 2000s, which urged the province to establish its own police force, pension fund and income tax collection, and to retreat from other areas of federal influence.
We're not going to have a big
rally cry around it, but we do think authors would like to know that their e-books are not available in libraries, and they can decide what they want to do,» explained Raphael to Andrew Albanese.
Overall, what we have here is vintage Chomsky issuing a rabble - rousing,
rallying cry intended to rouse the masses before it's too late.
A rare, startling film that is a striking critique on a repressive society and a forcefully
feminist rallying cry.
Addressing the problem of mounting college debt has become a political
rallying cry across the country.
Avon Ladies used to be a fixture of U.S. pop culture, their «Ding Dong Avon Calling»
rallying cry part of the vernacular.
New York is one of just two states (along with North Carolina) that still does that, and the effort to end this practice has become a
big rallying cry for Assembly Democrats and the IDC, as well as a big sticking point in the budget talks.
Bush failed to correct this
populist rallying cry as he calculated it would have been politically impossible.
The Senatorial Selection Act was introduced in 1989, in part to allow the Progressive Conservative government of Don Getty to co-opt the issue of Senate reform, which had become a
powerful rallying crying of the populist Reform Party.
Mr Barber's
rallying cry comes as the government remains locked in talks over where the axe should fall, as Chancellor George Osborne finalises his spending review due to be revealed on 20 October.
@iain There is more to life than money, but trade deals is one of the
major rallying cries of the Leavers... that we'll be able to negotiate better trade deals for ourselves once we're out of the EU.
At a legislative hearing in Lower Manhattan last fall, James Sheppard, the chief of police in Rochester, and Steven Krokoff, his counterpart in Albany, aggressively knocked down what has been an
emotional rallying cry on the right.
In response, Magneto (Ian McKellen) uses it as a
final rallying cry for the war against humans while Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) is trying to keep his fellow mutants calm in the chaos.
MAIZE has been genetically engineered to produce a
chemical rallying cry for help against the plant's worst pest in the US.
I was charmed, of course, when the editors at Das Netz titled my article on this Die Mauer muss weg, (The Wall Must Go), a
great rallying cry of historic resistance.
In response: Kevin Miles, Chief Executive of the FSF, said: «The Football Supporters» Federation has a long -
standing rally cry — Twenty's Plenty for Away Tickets.
I hear one disgruntled Conservative activist repeat George Osborne's conference
speech rallying cry to a circle of chums.
While this
cryptocurrency rallying cry is typically used as the price of a coin starts a climb, this time the slogan's being used to demonstrate excitement over the progress that's being made on a long - anticipated bitcoin code optimization.
So protesters,
whose rallying cry on Twitter was marked by the #NoDAPL hashtag, were joyous when the Army Corps of Engineers, which was in charge of permits for the project, appeared to move against it in December.
Those words could easily be a customer
service rallying cry — the sort of thing you'd find printed out and pinned up in the break room.