rallying cry
He was an iconic figure for youth protesters, and one of their greatest rallying forces.
His emotionally charged rallying address reduced many of his soldiers to tears.
She is aware that she will need to give a rallying speech.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Encouraging and urging on
abet
barrack for someone
bread
bring
bring someone out
get in there!idiom
get out of here!idiom
go on
good/great/lovely stuff!idiom
goose
muster
pave
pave the wayidiom
pep talk
permit
prepare
spur
stimulus
stoke
urge

Examples of rallying

rallying
This is a rallying cry rather than an admission of defeat, however, and research proceeds apace.
The rallying cries of dissent become ever more ethereal and faint.
Phrases of the melody accompany the activities of the factory workers, interrupting their work and acting as a rallying call to revolt.
Their rallying cries were urgent and so often repeated that echoes can still be heard today, but the anticipated revolution and revelation never arrived.
In the last decades, however, autonomy has been fully integrated into the cycle of commerce and so has lost its impetus as a rallying force.
With its vision of belonging, it became the rallying cry of post-war reintegration efforts.
Each provided a variety of venues for rallying one's peers to a cause, in short for establishing a reputation for leadership.
Others have pointed to the fact that it remains a vital concept, even a rallying point, in certain fields such as musicology and politics.
And multiparty elections quickly became a useful rallying cry for would-be political leaders.
A semblance of conformity with the imperial constitution also eased the task of rallying princes to his project.
At a normative level, it has provided a rallying point for scholars dissenting from the dominant neo-liberal paradigm.
Not only, then, was access no longer the central rallying cry, but the cost of medicine had in most nations been effectively socialized.
Do other types of policies have a particularly, albeit less obvious, potential for working towards nation-building and serving as a rallying point for nationalist mobilization?
Its lyrics issued a rallying cry as well as a prophetic warning.
Rallying such broad support has partly been possible because the social democratic-led governments have reshaped the norms around the passing of the annual budget.
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