Sentences with phrase «from bully pulpits»

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?

I certainly agree with those who say that no government policy — from the bully pulpit to various kinds of bribes — can reliably promise to spike the birth rate.

Once a deal is reached, Paterson will become a 100 percent certified lame duck with very little power and even less ability to command attention from his bully pulpit.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

The smart ones distinguish the strength of President Theodore Roosevelt's bully pulpit from the overreliance on political tricks.

1) Repeal the Triborough Amendment; 2) State pick - up of Medicaid costs from counties; 3) Roll - back of Medicaid entitlements / coverages to median national levels; 4) Major reform of SEQR process which blocks projects Upstate; 5) Repeal NY's participation in RGGI; 6) Cut 50 percent of staff at DOE, DOH, DEC in order to let the other half do their jobs, which means serving the people instead of feeding the bureaucratic monster; 7) Support expansion of nuclear plants at Oswego, construction of new plants elsewhere; 8) Tort reform to allow doctors to practice medicine, instead of fleeing NY; 9) Use the bully pulpit to support natural gas drilling and tell the envirowackos to grow up.

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.

The GOP party chairman is barred from taking sides in the state's presidential nominating contest, tentatively scheduled for Feb. 14, 2012, but Kimball has suggested that he'd like to use his bully pulpit to influence the contest.

But the retreat from bold promises to lip service is getting plenty of cover from Cuomo, a Democrat who decided to use his bully pulpit to lower expectations on, rather than draw attention to, reform issues.

In this world, the governing party owns a bully pulpit from which the terms of trade are determined.

During this year's budget negotiation, Cuomo took criticism from good - government groups — including Horner — for his failure to use the bully pulpit to press his ethical agenda despite the «Watergate moment» presented by the back - to - back convictions of Silver and Skelos.

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.

«We didn't get into a lengthy conversation but the immediate comment from some of the mayors in the room was: How can we use our abilities, how can we use our local capacity and our bully pulpits to try and move forward sensible gun control legislation?

Since 2010 Pres. Barack Obama and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology have used the bully pulpit to encourage the proliferation of public high schools that focus on STEM education and target students from underrepresented groups.

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!

Unmoored from conservative principles, they can decide to use the federal government's substantial power — its bully pulpit, budget, regulatory power, guidance documents — to force policies they like.

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.

Since 2010 Pres. Barack Obama and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology have used the bully pulpit to encourage the proliferation of public high schools that focus on STEM education and target students from underrepresented groups.

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

Early this year, during the Aspen Environment Forum, I asked Ira Magaziner, a senior policy adviser to President Bill Clinton for six years, whether a new president, with that bully pulpit and all, could make a sustained «energy quest» — from the living room to the laboratory to the boardroom to the classroom — a prime goal for Americans.

That means using the bully pulpit to show how a more volatile climate affects everything from agriculture to transportation to 21st - century warfare.

A paper of mine on hurricanes and global warming received some inappropriate reviews from people who were skeptical of AGW and / or its links with hurricanes, with word like «paranoid», «bully pulpit», «hypocritical», used in direct reference to me personally in the reviews.

What they may overlook is that you already have a bully pulpit, and while including you on a panel isn't going to «buy» your silence or secure your public endorsement of their policies / products, excluding you from the panel certainly won't win them any PR points and certainly doesn't reflect a willingness to engage in constructive dialog.

That is the beauty of this organization, it is not the CB in that they may not work from an unfettered bully pulpit with no culpibility for their actions.