The phrase "raised a cry" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to start or initiate a loud and urgent call or protest. Example: The villagers raised a cry when they saw smoke coming from the direction of the forest. Here, "raised a cry" indicates that the villagers began shouting and sounding alarms to alert others of a potential danger.
As the presidential helicopter descended on the grounds of the ambassador's residence in Regent's Park, preparing to whisk Mr. Trump away to a black-tie dinner in a secluded palace outside the capital, protesters raised a cry.
When a group of actors who barnstormed the country to raise money for the U.S.O. got to Philadelphia, a housewiferly-looking lady standing an a curbstone recognized Cary Grant going by in a car and raised a cry of "It's Cary Grant!" She watched him out of sight, then murmored.
The New Yorker, June 20 , 1942P. 9 When a group of actors who barnstormed the country to raise money for the U.S.O. got to Philadelphia, a housewiferly-looking lady standing an a curbstone recognized Cary Grant going by in a car and raised a cry of "It's Cary Grant!" She watched him out of sight, then murmored.
By Groucho Marx and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, June 20 , 1942P. 9 When a group of actors who barnstormed the country to raise money for the U.S.O. got to Philadelphia, a housewiferly-looking lady standing an a curbstone recognized Cary Grant going by in a car and raised a cry of "It's Cary Grant!" She watched him out of sight, then murmored.
In some corners of Washington, that raises a cry against "mandates".
Evidently fragile, and perhaps severely depressed, Emily raises a cry for help when she drives her car at speed into a wall.
But in fact they are raising a cry that goes back more than a century that Thailand is not "ready for democracy".
Ms. Weingarten was raising a cry against the demonizing of teachers and the widespread, uninformed tendency to cast wholesale blame on teachers for the myriad problems with American public schools.
There isn't necessarily a need to dwell on it too much, to raise a cry right then and there, to take a stand at the expense of working with an organization or a group, but noticing it is fundamental, will become second nature, will acknowledge the oddness at a personal level -- and that is the first step to a meaningful change.
In their distress, some violent areas have raised a separatist cry, but their prospects of breaking away seem remote.
Offshore wind farming is not a particularly radical endeavor; like inner-city congestion pricing (to name another proposed measure that has raised a loud cry of opposition, in this case in New York City), offshore wind farms have been successfully implemented in Europe.
