Sentences with phrase «bully pulpit»

Even if Zuckerberg doesn't have answers yet, you'd think there would be some post on his personal Facebook page (which he uses as a sort of bully pulpit for his beliefs and missions for the company), to see him on evening news interviews, or even penning a post on Facebook's blog.

Michael Rooks, recipient of the 2015 Nexus Award, used his acceptance speech as bully pulpit to remind us what the arts community has achieved and what it can accomplish through collective creativity and will.

Well, what if we retired the «God is anti-» refrain pouring from bully pulpits, and instead took a strong position on what our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is for?

Voters no longer need to rely on elected officials with bully pulpits to inform thier vote, they are just clicks away from a research and entering their own political discussions.

Mr. Trump's willingness to again single out Amazon and characterize it as a tax cheat and a job killer is a remarkable use of the presidential bully pulpit that could have serious implications for the company even without any formal moves by the federal government.

They are standing on their own bully pulpit and smashing their own hammer into their own head.

The «Author's Guild» does not represent authors, it does most of its work and bully pulpit speeches for publishers, and a handful of super-rich lucky ones at the top, who are anxious to protect their position of privilege.

«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.

He'll have access to an extraordinarily effective bully pulpit and the ability, suddenly, to wage public arguments on level terms with anyone.

And model three would set «shoot - the - moon» targets and use the federal bully pulpit to exhort leaders in states and districts to improve.

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.

He holds two important bully pulpits: chair of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and chair of Waterfront Toronto's Design Review Committee.

This also means that we are all provided with our own potential bully pulpits, and from time to time we all use them simply to express our anger and our outrage at those in our path, whether those things are merited or not.

You operate from the evangelical bully pulpit, that was built upon the fears of millions and millions of people, by the use of intimidation, guilt tripping and the taking advantage of people's weaknesses.You speak from an arena of safety, privileges and comforts that Paul didn't even dream about.

«I'm starting to see the governor is putting the time and attention into crafting stronger bully pulpit speeches.

When the board was ruled unconstitutional, the borough president became a ceremonial bully pulpit.

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

Washington (CNN)- Senior White House adviser David Axelrod brought the White House bully pulpit to bear Wednesday on Rep. Mark Kirk, the Republican hoping to capture Barack Obama's old Senate seat in November.

«It has a much more bully pulpit aspect to it,» Poloncarz said Monday.

I think of the freedom faculty have to pursue their ideas and use Harvard's unparalleled bully pulpit to publicize their findings.

Though presidents usually enjoy the biggest bully pulpit, Martin Luther King proved no less influential.

Legislation and bully pulpit aside, the Trump team faces plenty of opportunities on the regulatory and de-regulatory front, not just in sanely implementing programs like ESSA and IDEA without constraining state flexibility but also — especially — in the civil rights realm.

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.

So what do I, in my infinite wisdom and from my grand bully pulpit, think you should use instead?

But art, with an «appreciation for, and a comfort with, ambiguity,» as Gottesman told me, may prove a better delivery method for that message than the dogmatic bully pulpit.

Right - wing politicians promote contrarian / denier fallacies from bully pulpits.

Lacking the presidential bully pulpit but boasting the largest congressional majority in generations, top Republicans accused President Obama of loading his State of the Union address with partisan priorities instead of demonstrating the leadership...

Rather, Nate, who teaches at a highly successful school - within - a-school for at - risk high school students in Tacoma, said he wants to use his new bully pulpit to talk about the only things that really matter: the resource inequities that lead to the kinds of horrific conditions we're seeing in photos of Detroit public schools and the need for more high - quality and diverse teachers.

«Nobody has a better bully pulpit than the governor,» the senator said.

Observers of the office say Mr. de Blasio wielded it as an effective bully pulpit but accomplished little in substantive change.

Nor is empowerment akin to granting individuals his or her own bully pulpit.

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.

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.

Make it a body that really makes a difference... One of the most import things for the Secretary (of State John Kerry) and myself is we are going to have a bully pulpit, the microphone for the next two years.

«I would think [Mnuchin] would be likely in the bully pulpit / public approach similar to pre-crisis business types in the job like [O'Neill] or [Snow],» he wrote.

He is using the bully pulpit to stand up for workers by taking on the most powerful American companies, including Ford (F), General Motors (GM), Toyota (TM), Boeing (BA), Lockheed Martin (LMT), and United Technologies (UTX) / Carrier.

It does have a bully pulpit, however.

«There's a role for him to use presidential leadership and use the bully pulpit to get the base supportive of this debate.»

Pointing out that he is not making a political statement, Marrion said Trump's use of the bully pulpit has implications for the markets.

What it does have, though, is a little more than the bully pulpit because these reforms [to financial regulations] that are under way are the product of a process where all the major economies are around the table and they're participating in their development, and then they agree ultimately at the leader level in the G20.

President Obama has used the bully pulpit of the White House to drive a clear and consistent message to his Cabinet, Congress, state and industry leaders, and the world: America will be a global leader in the clean - energy race.

As chairman emeritus of MFS Investment Management, Robert Pozen used his bully pulpit to argue for Social Security reform and the protection of Americans» retirement assets.

But I think it puts business on notice that this president is willing to use the bully pulpit to embarrass them.

The president systematically used the bully pulpit and his executive authority to reinvigorate the building blocks of his 2008 coalition.