rallying-point

Hougomont injured, La Haie – Sainte taken, there now existed but one rallying-point, the centre.

Les Miserables 2008

As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends.

Les Miserables 2008

As a result, they were unable to reach the symbol Uhuru Park rallying-point.

Three Days of Protests Planned In Kenya 2008

I continue to hope that the discussion of the Covenant before, during and beyond Lambeth will give us a positive rallying-point.

The Archbishop's Advent Letter to Primates 2007

The nucleus of strength first gained becomes a rallying-point, round which the rest of the world will gladly congregate.

Hellenica 2007

But if they had begun with us while the power of the allies was still intact, and we might have afforded a rallying-point, they would not so easily have mastered them.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

I continue to hope that the discussion of the Covenant before, during and beyond Lambeth will give us a positive rallying-point.

The Archbishop's Advent Letter to Primates 2007

As Comte says, it furnished a provisional rallying-point for efforts the most divergent, without requiring the sacrifice of any points of essential independence, in such a way to secure for a body of incoherent speculation an external look of system.

Voltaire 2007

“Ah, mademoiselle, the rostrum is today the greatest theatre of the world; it has succeeded the tournaments of chivalry, it is now the meeting-place for all intellects, just as the army has been the rallying-point of courage.”

Modeste Mignon 2007

The blow was not altogether unexpected, for Mr. Arundell had been ill for some time; but it was none the less severe, for she had always been devotedly attached to her father, and his house had been made a rallying-point for them when they were wont to return home.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006