Out of them have been brought the watchwords of progress in every reformation which the Church has experienced.
This became subsequently still more inevitable when his own old errors met him as the watchwords of a party within the Christian Church itself, against which he had to wage a long and relentless war.
The succeeding ages have changed nothing except the watchwords of the armies.
Contemplating the exactness of his images and the justice of his judgment, the freedom of his fancy and the fidelity of his purpose, one becomes aware of the futility of literary watchwords and the vanity of all the schools of fiction.
Every time he and his attendant courtiers open their mouths it is to utter one or other of the watchwords of the revolutionary period.
These were the watchwordsof the champions of the principle of authority.
What are the watchwords which have succeeded to those of the Rabbinists who encountered St Paul?
This effort has furnished most of the watchwords of religious teaching.
On the one side we have the revolutionary thesis, the rights of man, the authority of reason, the watchwords liberty, equality, fraternity.
Then, again, these vices and passions take good care here to deck themselves out in the trappings of democratic watchwords and phrases, so that they are more often greeted with cheers than with opposition when they first appear.
They are employed as watchwords as soon as any social questions come into discussion.
Watchwords by themselves, if they remain vague generalities untranslatable into new directions of effort, will fail.
Humanitarianism, constructive reform, social democracy became the watchwordsof the day.
Thrift has been one of the watchwords of Protestantism for three hundred years.
The old watchwords still rang true; but they were not enough.
But belonging to different states, and heading the antagonist schools of Rome and Florence, the sectional spirit of Italy has placed them in contrast, and has adopted their names as watchwords of local jealousy.
Aristotle and Plato became the watchwordsof contending sects,[*68] and the usual jarring results of such logomachy were not long wanting.
Reform" has been one of the perennial watchwords of mankind; in the Middle Ages it was applied to the work of a number of leaders like Rienzi, and was taken as the program of the councils of Constance and Basle.
Uniting with the Calvinistic Methodists, she nevertheless stood aloof from none who preached a personal Christ, and whose watchwords were the salvation of souls and the purification of the Church.
It was one of the watchwords of the Reformation, cheering armies to conflict, and sustaining believers in the hours of fiery trial.
Fear rather, in this our common fatherland, lest we live to lose those great watchwords of Liberty and Opportunity which yonder in the eternal hills their fathers fought with your fathers to preserve.
Strange is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy--"Be strong!
If there are watchwords for the rabble, have not the polite and fashionable their hackneyed phrases, their fulsome, unmeaning jargon as well?
They appeal, at the first meeting, not to certain symbols and watchwords privately agreed upon, like Freemasons, but to the maxims and instincts proper to all the world.
These watchwords signify that the constitution of an infant, like that of a young plant, fixes a certain goal within broad limits for it to reach, the narrower limits being left to be determined by social ideals.
And thesewatchwords have, for many of us, not only a political, but a religious meaning.
Solidarity, collectivism, the common life--these are the watchwords of some of the most widely influential movements of our time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watchwords" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
