Sentence examples for preach back to from inspiring English sources

And why, too, they have ended up asking a mere child to preach back to them what they so desperately wish to hear.

Young may be preaching to the choir, but he also lets them preach back; the record closes with a churchy a-cappella version of "America the Beautiful" that reaffirms the link between patriotism and protest.

His father worked for a furniture store, was a city marshal and remembered hearing Marcus Garvey preach his Back to Africa gospel on a Harlem street corner.

For so long a member of the Nation of Islam, he adopted a more moderate form of his faith in 1975 and his wife Lonnie says now that he "evolved to understand that what he was preaching back then [in the 1960s] was not true Islam".

This is what Reagan and Thatcher preached back in the 1980s.

Troy heard him preaching back when Troy was in the closet, sometime in early 1960s LA: Your grandfather is the first person I ever heard use the word homosexual from the pulpit and it wasn't a put-down.

The docu-series "Polygamy USA" profiles an off-shoot Mormon community in Arizona that still practices the plural marriage their forefathers preached back in the 19th century.

Mr. Scheele and Mr. Ford have preached a "back to basics" approach that hews to improving the business instead of redefining it, as Mr. Nasser originally sought.

Garvey preached a back-to-Africa message of empowerment; many of his followers believed his prophecy that a black king would be crowned came true when Haile Selassie became emperor of Ethiopia in 1930.

When religious feeling washed over him, he began visiting the henhouse out back to preach to the Dominiques and the Rhode Island Reds.

NEW HAVEN — Dodging 5-year-olds at the Calvin Hill Day Care Center here, Erika Christakis admired how the teachers celebrated free play as a route to intellectual inquiry, listened to children rather than preaching and stood back to let them find their own way.