Then the move from outside the church to inside the church would perhaps have more rhetorical power. (firstthings.com)
But whereas Reaganism gave real power to corporations, it gave only rhetorical power to communities. (firstthings.com)
In one sense, their use constitutes one more form of accountability, as those politicians who like to draw their moral and rhetorical power from religious traditions must do so at the cost of being judged by those very traditions. (totalpolitics.com)