Sentence examples for catchword for from inspiring English sources

Anarchism was the catchword for an international terrorist movement at the turn of the 20th century.

Six months ago, the lament was that British call-centre jobs were fleeing to "Bangalore", the catchword for India's information-technology sector.

Amy Davidson: One aspect of Iraqi culture that Steavenson explores is the idea of honor — honor, in particular, as a catchword for views of the women in a family.

Since then, Sagra has become a catchword for a spate of violence around the country in which people have banded together to defend themselves in the absence of police protection.

Just as "plastics" was the catchword in the 1967 movie "The Graduate," the catchword for math teachers today should be "fractions," said Francis Fennell, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

They prefer to speak of "reconciliation", a catchword for amnesty, now that hundreds of former officers have been convicted – many of so advanced an age that about 300 are estimated to have died so far in jail, either serving their sentences or pending trial.

Like the hoax, it was contagious: one of the "Swahili" phrases they reportedly uttered, "bunga-bunga," would become "public catchwords for a time, and were introduced as tags into music-hall songs and so forth," Stephen wrote.

Why the French theorists should have the monopoly on the understanding of contemporary culture is not clear, although their presumed leftism was appealing to would-be "advanced" critics and artists that is, aspirants to the mantle of avant-gardism, which still claimed for itself "resistance," the catchword from the 1970s on, if no longer "revolution".

Although Medvedev made modernization of Russia's corrupt, oil-based economy the catchword of his presidency, he has little to show for his efforts.

The interest in that technique, known as experiential marketing, is especially strong when the goal of a campaign is to generate buzz, the catchword du jour for positive word of mouth.

In the final paper within this theme, author Iona Heath opens with the challenging and thought-provoking statement that quality is a contemporary catchword "that seldom has real substance and all too often become a slogan for the exercise of power" [ 27].