watch-word

Duty was Elspeth's watch-word, especially when it was my duty - hadn't she shot me off to India more than once, weeping, I grant you (though what she'd been up to with those grinning Frogs after Madagascar, once I'd been despatched to the cannon's mouth, I didn't care to imagine).

Watershed 2010

Transparency is a new watch-word when it comes to giving citizens the ability to find out more about what their employees in government are up to.

Errors of Enchantment » Government Spending Database now Online 2010

Isn't multiculturalism the watch-word on these shows?

AquaSketch by Frank McLaughlin - 2008 rob! 2009

From her home in Cincinnati she recalled how then, the watch-word was, "Black is beautiful", while 'Black style', was regarded as the quintessence of 'cool'.

Michael Henry Adams: Black Style Now? Shouldn't the Obamas Also Choose Black Designers? 2009

Uncle Steve was well-known for demanding high standards but even more especially, from himself; excellence was his watch-word.

75th ART STAMPEDE HONOURS STEVE RHODES Winner of the Prince Claus Award 2006 2008

Uncle Steve was well-known for demanding high standards but even more especially, from himself; excellence was his watch-word.

Archive 2008-06-01 Winner of the Prince Claus Award 2006 2008

Now I was enabled to see each of them, as I carried the watch-word along the line to the leaders of our companies.

The Phoenissae 2008

Now I was enabled to see each of them, as I carried the watch-word along the line to the leaders of our companies.

The Phoenissae 2008

To Edgar alone this gave her not new charms: he saw in her more of beauty, but less of interest; the sentence dictated by Dr. Marchmont, as the watch-word to his feelings, were she mine, recurred to him incessantly; alas! he thought, with this dissipated delight in admiration, what individual can make her happy? to the rational serenity of domestic life, she is lost!

Camilla 2008

Today the corporate watch-word is "hold the line."

Archive 2007-05-01 Steve Hulett 2007