Sentence examples for a pulpit for from inspiring English sources

Ms. Merkel has never used the chancellery as a pulpit for gender equality.

From 1302 to 1310 Pisano again worked in Pisa, this time for a pulpit for the cathedral.

As TuneCore has grown, it has also served as a pulpit for Mr. Price to criticize the ways of the music business.

At moments the stage became a pulpit for his hard-sell approach to Gershwin that fused his Al Jolson and Sinatra aspects with an aggressive exuberance.

Now, having used his late-night stage as a pulpit for discussing health care, he holds himself like the moral conscience of the fraternity's grad board.

Some fear that the United Nations could return to the dark days of the 1970s, when the Security Council was paralyzed by cold war tensions and the General Assembly was a pulpit for anti-Western ideologists.

2. Dare to Be Dull The vice presidency is a poor pulpit for a charismatic candidate, accustomed to cheering crowds.

That changes the process.' Several of the O.J. Simpson jurors had to be dismissed because they signed book contracts during the trial".When a trial attracts a frenzy of television coverage, it often becomes a bully pulpit for wider political issues, rather than a careful determination of the guilt or innocence of the defendant.

It can be much more than a bully pulpit for domestic politics; it can also be a platform that addresses who we are as a global society--not as a monolith, but as a collection of cultures struggling to come to terms with our differing systems of values, common aspirations, and increasing interdependence.

"I remember standing at a huge pulpit for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur in Melbourne, Australia, in front of a few thousand congregants; only a fraction came during the year," said Rabbi Adlerstein, who teaches Jewish law and ethics at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

Coverage of the disasters continues to dominate discussion in Australia, and the Open provided a bully pulpit for fund-raising.