Back in 2010, Cameron, who preaches localism more than he practises it, tried to "reform" the '22 by allowing ministers to attend (but not vote) – as the PLP allows – which prompted a backlash.
Gantry lusts for power yet can't resist the desires of the flesh and, although he preaches the gospel in many forms, he does not believe a word of it.
The villain of "The Swimmers" is a rich, vulgar banker who preaches an updated version of the gilded age's "gospel of wealth": "Money is power … Money made this country, built its great and glorious cities, created its industries, covered it with an iron network of railroads".
He seems to practise what he preaches – and among world leaders that is almost uniquely rare and powerful.
While Tablighi Jamaat is based on a strict interpretation of Islam that preaches peace, it is viewed with suspicion and mistrust by intelligence services across Europe.
More decisive, however, will be the speed with which the Internet approach to computing that Oracle preaches takes off.
Though technically from Baden, whose people consider themselves bons vivants beside Württemberg's Swabians, he still preaches to southern Europeans a good Pietist gospel of saving, hard work and self-improvement.If the Swabian contribution to these attitudes is obvious, the emphasis on its female and domestic sides is also appropriate, Ursula Knupfer thinks.
To avert another crunch, she preaches, the world should adopt Germany's tempered version of capitalism, its social-market economy.But in matters of war and peace Germany has yet to shed its inhibitions.
One of the star competitors Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who preaches on the al-Jazeera satellite channel has sponsored the creation of an international council of ulema, or religious scholars.
WHAT a pity that Gerhard Cromme, chairman of ThyssenKrupp and one of the leading lights of corporate Germany, practises so little of what he preaches.
His boss, Mr Greenspan, preaches fiscal virtue at every opportunity.
