Band of Hope

noun

1. a society promoting lifelong abstention from alcohol among young people: founded in Britain in 1847

Example Sentences

Out of this time had come the temperance movement, which taught my mother as a schoolgirl to write “alcohol is a poison not a food” in her exercise books and equipped my 16-year-old father with an ornate certificate from the Christian charity Band of Hope on which he signed a pledge “to abstain from all intoxicating drinks as beverages” – the last two words presumably exempting a medicinal shot of brandy.

From The Guardian

All together now:♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ “It’s the wheel of fortune / It’s the leap of faith / it’s the band of hope … in the circle, the circle of life!”

From The Guardian

How different when efficient volunteers are there, in readiness for the Sunday-school, and the Band of hope, and the missionary society, and the congregational choir, and for visiting the sick, and every other service of Christian love!

From Project Gutenberg

Amongst the leading mines at present being worked are the celebrated 'Block Hill,' the 'Band and Albion,' 'Redan,' 'Washington,' 'Koh-I-Noor,' 'Band of Hope,' 'Victoria United,' 'Llanberis,' 'Smith's Freehold,' 'Williams' Freehold,' together with scores of others, employing upwards of three hundred steam engines, with an aggregate of about ten thousand horse-power, besides numerous machines worked by horses.

From Project Gutenberg

A number of cards of invitation to meetings and the match list of a Band of Hope cricket club were stuck into the looking glass frame with Coote's name as a Vice-President.

From Project Gutenberg