Sentences with phrase «with bully pulpits»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

And, Bradshaw noted, much of the improvement coincides with the Obama administration's efforts to fund research and use its, ahem, bully pulpit to improve school climate.

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.

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...

He has little more than a bully pulpit with which to persuade or cajole a firmly entrenched Legislature that is perfectly happy with the status quo and altogether adept at preserving it.

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.

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.

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

But once possessed of the bully pulpit, the same policies that would have not reassured in opposition (eg Ed Miliband advocating an apprenticeships levy) become varnished with a new seal of authority (eg George Osborne introducing an apprenticeships levy).

However, since he does have center stage with high public approval, and the bully pulpit, he defines the argument and the enemy.

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!

• 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.

Now, if DeVos can marry that restraint with the kind of articulate and unflinching rhetoric on display last Thursday, she just may start to get the hang of this bully pulpit thing.

That stipulation seemed unnecessary for a job that was to me about setting a vision for the district, managing high - level employees, dealing with board politics, handling relationships with the press, the community, and the unions, and most important, using the bully pulpit to fight for kids.

With No Child Left Behind (NCLB) emphasizing math and reading, business and manufacturing leaders calling for workplace readiness in our graduates, and politicians citing lagging international competitiveness in science and math, the Arts Endowment chairman must utilize the bully pulpit more than ever before.

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.

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.

bully pulpit (a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter)

Historically, I think we have always linked the Office of President with the power of the «bully pulpit», but could it be that the information / communication revolution has broadened the distribution of the bully pulpit?

If Obama takes the position that legislation can be negotiated without regard to whether its supporters believe in the scientific evidence or not, if he brings to the bully pulpit no serious vocabulary on climate change, no gravitas on climate science, then how likely is it that he will lead government and society to deal with the problem in a «comprehensive» way?

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.

«The bully pulpit of public health has helped with smoking, HIV / AIDs prevention, and lead paint poisoning to mention a few examples.

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.