0 present participle of rally --
1 to (cause to) come together in order to provide support or make a shared effort: --
"Workers of the world unite!" was their rallying cry/call (= a phrase said to encourage support).
[ + obj + to infinitive ] The general rallied his forces to defend the town.
The president has called on the people to rally to/behind the government.
Supporters/Opponents of the new shopping development are trying to rally local people in favour of/against it.
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.
Its lyrics issued a rallying cry as well as a prophetic warning.
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?
Not only, then, was access no longer the central rallying cry, but the cost of medicine had in most nations been effectively socialized.
At a normative level, it has provided a rallying point for scholars dissenting from the dominant neo-liberal paradigm.
A semblance of conformity with the imperial constitution also eased the task of rallying princes to his project.
And multiparty elections quickly became a useful rallying cry for would-be political leaders.
Others have pointed to the fact that it remains a vital concept, even a rallying point, in certain fields such as musicology and politics.
