As a result, they were unable to reach the symbol Uhuru Park rallying-point. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Hougomont injured, La Haie – Sainte taken, there now existed but one rallying-point, the centre. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I continue to hope that the discussion of the Covenant before, during and beyond Lambeth will give us a positive rallying-point. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The nucleus of strength first gained becomes a rallying-point, round which the rest of the world will gladly congregate. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Thucydides (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. ❋ Unknown (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.” ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It is that the former have a rallying-point and that the latter have none. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I think that The DaVinci Code, as a movie, will become a rallying-point. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It will in a few weeks become the rallying-point of our diverse routes, when you shall meet her, and I join you both. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Its scattered members serve it as rallying-points for action against the people at a distance, but it has no rallying-point for direct action on its members themselves. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Biko's death became a rallying-point for the anti-apartheid movement and spurred tens of thousands of young blacks into political activism. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Botha had sound political and personal arguments for his actions and the issue was becoming a rallying-point for Afrikaner nationalism. ❋ Unknown (1998)
This will be the first time Mr Mandela has attended the Shaka Day celebration, traditionally a rallying-point for the Inkatha Freedom ❋ Unknown (1994)
But mentally, too, he survived the Franco regime, never submitting, and thus becoming a rallying-point and key figure in what remained of Spain's spiritual life. ❋ Unknown (1977)
He never submitted to it and went on with his writing, frail but unbroken, thereby becoming the rallying-point and source of power in Spain's spiritual life that we today have the pleasure of honouring. ❋ Unknown (1977)
INTERVIEWER: You mean, then, that he was more a rallying-point. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
