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under the banner of something

if you do something under the banner of a belief or idea, you say that you are doing it in order to support that belief or idea The pro-lifers are campaigning under the banner of traditional family values.

under the banner of something

using the support or protection of a belief or idea They're part of a group that goes under the banner Youth Against Crime.

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I seem in unusually good spirits; my perception of things is clear, I feel as light and cheerful as though I were in heaven; but I know for a certainty, that if to-morrow a dim remembrance of it should swim before my mind, it will then seem nothing but stupid nonsense, as I have often experienced already--especially before I enlisted under the banner of the police, for that dispels like a whirlwind all the visions of an unfettered imagination. Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context If (which Heaven forbid) the middle classes ranged under the banner of the opposition should succeed in overthrowing those social superiorities which are so repugnant to their vanity, another struggle would follow hard upon their victory. The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context More results

? References in classic literature

I seem in unusually good spirits; my perception of things is clear, I feel as light and cheerful as though I were in heaven; but I know for a certainty, that if to-morrow a dim remembrance of it should swim before my mind, it will then seem nothing but stupid nonsense, as I have often experienced already--especially before I enlisted under the banner of the police, for that dispels like a whirlwind all the visions of an unfettered imagination.

Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context

If (which Heaven forbid) the middle classes ranged under the banner of the opposition should succeed in overthrowing those social superiorities which are so repugnant to their vanity, another struggle would follow hard upon their victory.

The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context

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