under the banner of
idiom
: with a particular slogan
Both candidates are running under the banner of "no new taxes."
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These efforts are being carried out under the banner of environmental protection and the clean energy transition, but the real goal is to weaken America’s energy sector and give the advantage to China in global energy and manufacturing markets.
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Dan Eberhart, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Another round of national anti-Trump demonstrations is being planned across the U.S. for July 17 under the banner of Good Trouble Lives On, a reference to the late civil rights icon, Congressman John Lewis.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
The same unchecked powers being tested at the federal level—surveillance without cause, punishment without trial, and guilt by association—have long existed here under the banner of gang suppression policing.
—Sean Garcia Leys, Oc Register, 10 June 2025
When the Arab world was reaching for primacy under the banner of Arab nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s, Iran, Israel, and Turkey banded together to contain it.
—Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2025
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Dan Eberhart, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Another round of national anti-Trump demonstrations is being planned across the U.S. for July 17 under the banner of Good Trouble Lives On, a reference to the late civil rights icon, Congressman John Lewis.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
The same unchecked powers being tested at the federal level—surveillance without cause, punishment without trial, and guilt by association—have long existed here under the banner of gang suppression policing.
—Sean Garcia Leys, Oc Register, 10 June 2025
When the Arab world was reaching for primacy under the banner of Arab nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s, Iran, Israel, and Turkey banded together to contain it.
—Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2025
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