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under the banner of1As part of a specified group: the party is running under the banner of the Left-Wing Alliance...- The bloggers are running under the banner of the Iraqi Pro-Democracy Party.
- In the last federal election, he ran under the banner of the Green Party in Windsor.
- These organized interests coalesced under the banner of the American Party, which resulted in the advocacy of a variety of policies designed to please each element of the coalition.
1.1Claiming to support a specified cause or principle: campaigns fought under the banner of multiculturalism...- The party has fought two campaigns under the banner of devolution and has not reached its objective of forming the Scottish administration.
- Another trend, supported by the government under the banner of diversity, has been the decline of formal family relationships and a rise in smaller households.
- This is an important distinction that has been overlooked in the resolutions of organized psychiatry and in the media, where the claims are lumped together under the banner of abuse.
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