Sentences with phrase «as a bully pulpit»

Trump is using the presidency as a bully pulpit in a different and more threatening sense, which will not only be damaging to our economic system, but unlikely to produce the results that many of his supporters appear to expect.

Shame on you, Mr Gilgoff, to use CNN.com Belief blog as your bully pulpit to spread your hate - Christian message.

@Dan Gilgoff - it is shocking that you are using CNN belief blog as your bully pulpit to publish a «hit list» of companies whose owners practice Christian faith.

They both used their office as a bully pulpit of intimidation.»

«I've used the office as a bully pulpit to make sure that our issues were heard,» Castorina said.

He also is expected to chart an independent course and use the clerk's office as a bully pulpit.

Miner has often used the job of mayor as a bully pulpit, advocating for causes beyond the scope of City Hall.

«We don't think it would be in Britain's interest to use the job as a bully pulpit to attack Brussels rather than working constructively to protect our interests,» a source told both newspapers.

In truth, the bulk of the borough presidency's power lies in its use as a bully pulpit.

Gale Brewer: One of the benefits of the Manhattan Borough President's office is that it can act as a bully pulpit for issues that are of importance to Manhattan residents.

Weprin said he believes he can use the position of congressman as a bully pulpit to speak for children and seniors.

«We don't think it would be in Britain's interest to use the job as a bully pulpit to attack Brussels rather than working constructively to protect our interests.»

«He sees the AG's office both as a bully pulpit and as an investigative unit against Albany's inbred culture of corruption,» the Post wrote.

He can use the position as a bully pulpit.

Smalley, who teaches at Rice University in Houston, is using his Nobel Prize as a bully pulpit to discuss energy, an issue he calls the most important problem facing humanity.

Just as the bully pulpit was left vacant, the billfold was barely opened.

We're encouraged by Mr. Duncan's use of his office as a bully pulpit.

Not exact matches

Other countries, such as the U.K., have gender diversity champions who have made excellent use of the bully pulpit, notably Lord Mervyn Davies, who is calling for 33 percent board participation by women by 2020.

President Theodore Roosevelt spoke of the White House as offering a bully pulpit that could be used by the president to persuade the people.

Our present day bully - pulpit abusive religions stem from the Neolithic Revolution, which, as Jared Diamond put it, was The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race.

I grew up in a bully pulpit church and no one ever referred to the pastor as anything other than «Pastor» in person or «The Pastor» in the 3rd person.

No matter how well the contraception ethic is preached, even if proclaimed from the president's bully pulpit, there will never be 100 percent compliance, just as there is never one hundred percent compliance with any preached ethic.

Are church bullies considered as those that use the pulpit or praying out loud to intimidate people... you have some leaders in the church that appears to be venting from the pulpit and then put God in it.

Groups such as Clean Up Australia have long campaigned for plastic bags to be banned «forever,» and in March last year hopes were buoyed when federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt said he was prepared to use the «bully pulpit» of government to «get rid of» plastic bags.

The Buffalo comptroller for nine years before he was elected county executive, Giambra said he brings experience to the race as well as the desire to use the post as a «bully pulpit» for his long - held advocacy for regionalizing government.

As she takes the oath of office on New Year's Day, in front of the Nassau County office building named after Theodore Roosevelt, Curran should embrace the bully pulpit on behalf of a purposeful governing agenda for Nassau County.

But Cuomo's willingness to use his bully pulpit — a poll last month showed he is viewed favorably by 70 percent of the state's voters — elevates the issue above others that he has pushed for with less vigor, such as raising the state's minimum wage.

His main power derives from investing the city's pension funds, but the office also affords Stringer a bully pulpit for critiquing city contracts as well as other investments, including those related to real estate.

James is not the first public advocate to push the limits of the office, which, as one of three citywide elected posts, offers a bully pulpit but little in the way of concrete powers.

Polanco acknowledged that in order to enact such an agenda, the Public Advocate — a largely ceremonial citywide elected position with little direct authority — needs to heavily rely on the bully pulpit and organizing, as opposed to hard power.

Opinionated former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton has found a new bully pulpit — as a cyber-columnist for the law - and - order Internet service APBnews.com.

«I have one of the better bully pulpits as mayor of the biggest city in the country, and I believe if I do it the right way it will contribute,» he said.

Veteran Democratic consultants George Arzt and Hank Sheinkopf said he would have a far greater bully pulpit as a sitting governor.

The messenger matters, especially, as Sun Tzu would have appreciated, insofar as they are positioned in relation to the bully pulpit.

However, Boris also needs to use his «bully pulpit» to smash the institutional resistance and complacency which he will find in some areas of the Metropolitan Police establishment; he must stand up as the directly elected representative of Londoners and demand action from London's police.

As is the case with his last few books, Looker is a bully pulpit — albeit one not given to Crichton's insufferable conservative leanings of late — rendered transparent by its gratuitous cockteasing: it dovetails from one alarmist exposé to the next (extreme makeovers!

As the attention of the world is focused on the glamour and star - power of the 70th anniversary Cannes Film Festival, this largest and best - known celebration of cinema is also using its bully pulpit to bring attention to the global question of the immigrant.

• U.S. Department of Education's leadership and structure — trim programs and staffing; eliminate the Office of Civil Rights and transfer its functions to the Justice Department; restore the bully pulpit and reduce the use of regulation as the Secretary's principal lever for affecting state and local policy; and create collaborative relationship with relevant House and Senate leadership.

Emanuel continued to promote charters using the bully pulpit, and CPS was approving more charters even as the district was closing traditional schools.

And via adroit use of competitive grants and — at least as important — the presidential bully pulpit, Uncle Sam may be able to give a modest boost to the movement to put families, rather than bureaucracies, in control of their children's education.

By using the bully pulpit to promote the idea of choice rather than to promote policies that support high - quality choices, and by making chartering an NCLB punishment rather than promoting it as an opportunity for partnership, the Administration's support for charters became a liability.

«I will use my office as a «bully pulpit»: to describe what should happen in our educational systems; to call attention to positive as...

As Paul Reville, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, told Business Insider, «The position of secretary of education is, more than anything, an opportunity to be a bully pulpit to express the views of the president.»

«As your president, I will be the nation's biggest cheerleader for school choice,» he said, vowing to use the presidential bully pulpit and campaign in all 50 states for the proposal.

Critical pedagogy departs somewhat from constructivism, first in its emphasis on the affective - normative domain at the expense of the cognitive - empirical domain - it is more interested in engaging students in understanding the world as it ought to be than in how it is - and, second, in its acceptance of the hierarchical, judgmental classroom, where the teacher's role is not to facilitate value - free inquiry but instead to use the bully pulpit to preach doctrinaire gospel, with schools performing the function not of political socialization but of counter-socialization.

On one level, Duncan's plea can be seen as a commendable use of his considerable bully pulpit to draw attention to the diminished professional status of teachers, and to try to attract the best and the brightest to the profession.

Her visible position as the head of the Department of Education provides her with an important platform (aka bully pulpit) to advance her agenda of privatization, but even if she can convince Congress, she will still need to make her case with the states.

Many in conservative circles see her primary role as using the bully pulpit to advance school choice policies, but government - backed school vouchers for private schools, which is something she's vigorously supported for decades, have really taken a beating recently.

As education leaders, we have limited authority outside of K - 12 space to use the bully pulpit.

Nina Reese, president and executive director of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools recently wrote in a US News and World Report column, «As a former official at the U.S. Department of Education, I applaud the administration for leveraging the power of its bully pulpit to attract the ingredient most important in a child's success: a high quality teacher.»