Sentences with phrase «as soapbox»

I rarely use this blog as a soapbox, but, as a long - time member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, I can not let David Giacalone's post about it (bar & guild) go unanswered.

Government interference in what scientists paid by the government are allowed to use their position as a soapbox to preach?

From the hippies to the gays, the diggers to the cockettes, and the Black Panthers to the Foodies — each of these groups used or continues to use the shaky grounds on which we walk as both a soapbox and platform for ideas, performance, and social change.

Pardon my candidness, but a lot of teachers (at least from my experience) use their classrooms as their soapbox.

Without coming across as a soapbox for narcs or unserious stoners, Rolling Papers gives a clearheaded account of things as they stand and where they might be headed.

Sorry to use your article as a soapbox but can't resist.

Religion, specifically the religion that resented the vulgarization of «Xmas,» was as much a part of the culture as the soapbox derby and the Fourth of July parade.

That is, Shakespeare presents no overarching idea meant to serve as a soapbox from which the playwright can browbeat the audience with his convictions.

They don't «use» their experience as a soapbox.

The founders of growing companies such as SoapBox Soaps and Contently explain how they stay on point.

Not exact matches

The 25 - year - old co-founder of SoapBox Soaps had a go - to wardrobe which he describes as «par for the course.»

When Greg Clark stepped down as the leader of the Alberta Party Ms Soapbox wondered whether the party had lost its mind.

I read the piece by Jean in the Herald and was appalled at the half - truths, misleading statements, and lies as Ms. Soapbox elucidates so well.

I do nt get on my soapbox and preach to a congregation and warn them they will go to hell if they do not believe as I do.

Treat others as you want to be treated and don't cast stones, lessons most christians seem to forget from their soapbox.

As a new way for brands to stand out and connect with the Natural Products Expo audience, we introduced the Soapbox Series.

People who visit crafty pages on Facebook have things going on in their lives too — try to see your page as escapism for them, rather than a sounding board or soapbox for you.

The warning comes as Jim Murphy, former Scotland secretary, resumes his countrywide soapbox tour after warning the «Yes» camp were organising street confrontations at his meetings.

«Are you using City Hall as merely a soapbox for a run for the 2020 national Democratic ticket?»

A party built on Thatcher's values or even Major's soapbox heritage, as opposed to the privilege of MacMillan, is the only viable route to power.

You can think of it as the online version of Speakers» Corner in London's Hyde Park — not only can you hear the soapbox speakers, you can also tell which ones have attracted the largest crowds.

Science Soapbox: utilizing the podcast as a platform to connect science with policy and global affairs Maryam Zaringhalam, Avital Percher and Devon Collins The Rockefeller University

This list of questionable and out right bad ingredients went on, and I could stay on my soapbox for just as long, but you get the picture.....

Soapbox is offering my followers 20 % off with code Kristinsoapbox and all of these products are available as of today!

I don't like getting up on soapboxes (I'll leave the peeps on my Facebook newsfeed), but I'm proud to show my support in any way I can, even if it's something as simple as wearing red and spreading the word.

Schrader's direction is unobtrusive but agile, as though she considers it her duty to provide a cinematic soapbox for Zweig and politely exit the spotlight.

It needn't have been a soapbox, but all the same the subject matter surely lends itself to some sort of debate... Writer / director Mitchell Lichtenstein also falls into the trap of giving Dawn an easy way out, as so many of the men in the film seem to be almost cartoonishly evil.

It presents a future in 2022 that seems unlikely not because we're not currently on the verge of some great ecological disaster, but because rough math suggests that the Heston character would've been born the year before the film's 1973 release and thus his declaration that he'd never seen a grapefruit (or grass, or cows) should worm its way into the audience consciousness as Soylent Green's statement that it's not serious, thoughtful science - fiction, but rather soapbox and screed timed to coincide with, in 1972, the first international conference on climate change.

The aggregate effect of all the juggling is that The Commitments becomes alternately a soapbox for Parker using his green cast as a bullhorn and an extended concert video shot with the same two - camera set in various pub sets featuring a band that, for the most part, turns R&B classics into their mechanical pod counterparts.

This deeply exploitive moment is used as proof that there can be no justice for a black person in the South because it's suggested that the horrific images Jake conjures for his soapbox would be ineffectual unless the white jurors were to imagine a white victim.

Bobcat Goldthwait's documentary feature manages to avoid both excessive cronyism and soapboxing as it traverses from a portrait of his professional mentor, influential standup Barry Crimmins, to something that could scarcely be less of a laughing matter.

In an interview with Indiewire, the filmmaker was direct about the political implications: «You can get on your soapbox, you can push your political agenda or your religious agenda, against gay marriage, against racial equality, but you can't argue about these people in their home... Equality as a concept isn't something I think we ever achieve, it's something we make progress toward, and hope that we don't slip back and lose any of it.

Customers tend to place equal importance on their customer support experiences as they do on the actual product, and social media have given them a powerful soapbox to voice their complaints on the matter.

It read as if it had been crafted by agenda - driven, progressive historians seeking a soapbox for their efforts to convince young people that America is a pretty awful place.

And yes, I also use the blog as a «soapbox» for my views on educational policy issues.

I turn around and see a crowd around our car, so I walk back toward the Alfa, hop a flagstone wall, and immediately step onto my soapbox to deliver the history of Al - Fa Row - May - Oh, as well as the genesis story of the 4C, all the while playing with the traveling family's German long - haired pointer puppy, Chief.

That was the sort of vision and imagination that led him to two master's degrees as well as engineering soapbox racers, B - 2 stealth bombers and Chevrolet motorsports programs.

They are basically standing on their own little soapboxes proclaiming that library lending would be the death mark on mainstream bookstores such as Waterstone's and mom and pop stores across the country.

As long as they're helpful to readers, and not just soapboxes to talk about one's own issueAs long as they're helpful to readers, and not just soapboxes to talk about one's own issueas they're helpful to readers, and not just soapboxes to talk about one's own issues.

And if I might get on the soapbox for a moment, I would like to say that we all as investors should begin to vote down management pay and incentive packages where we can.

However, beyond looking at the short - term goals of improving their storesâ $ ™ bottom line, retailers should consider using their digital soapboxes to further their long - term interests by promoting programs, organizations and initiatives that will help to keep the pet industry healthy and vibrant as a whole.

Advertising and using Wikipedia as a «soapbox» are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted.

* Gets out soapbox * Okay Splash Damage, I know you felt that «if [you'd] added female models, [you'd] have had to cut in half the number of assets [you] planned to make as each would need a male and a female version,» but are you seriously telling me that 50 quadrillion choices wouldn't have been plenty?

As I mentioned, the Sunday Soapbox feature was Riddles» idea and I'm fairly certain the concept for this particular editorial was his as welAs I mentioned, the Sunday Soapbox feature was Riddles» idea and I'm fairly certain the concept for this particular editorial was his as welas well.

Beyond being a parody of gaming as a whole, the crew at IF and Compile Hearts also use Neptunia as something of a soapbox to comment on issues in gaming.

Again, I'm not drawing a giant point with this Soapbox, but rather a whimsical «hmm» as I think about how interesting and — in this case — disappointing it is that technology collides with art in such an inseparable manner with my favourite medium.

There is also her Facebook page: part stream of consciousness, part soapbox, she uses it as a platform to highlight not only the work of established artists but those who have been overlooked or forgotten.

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I wonder if it's even possible to draw a firm, black - and - white line between «censoring scientific results» and «suppressing use of a government position as a political soapbox»?

Mr. Black, you need to follow - up on his actions since the APS provided him the soapbox: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (hereafter referred to as TVMOB), who inherited his title, has been challenging Al Gore, who won a Nobel prize, to a debate for years now.