Word: pulpitation
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...Although the judge stopped him from reading a list of charges against Israel, the stout 43-year-old Fatah leader signaled his intention to use his trial as a bully pulpit. "Security will only be achieved ... by peace," told journalists, using the Hebrew he mastered during previous stays in Israeli prisons. "And peace will only be achieved by the end of the occupation...
Others, already believers, have come away from this past winter feeling a need to change tactics, change jobs, find a new way to get the urgent message across. Rick Scarborough, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Pearland, Texas, a Houston suburb, resigned his pulpit this month to put all his energy into recruiting Christians to become politically involved. "I am mobilizing Christians and getting more Christians to vote. I am preparing a beachhead of righteousness," he says. Meanwhile Wyoming state senator Carroll Miller, a popular legislator from Big Horn County, announced his retirement from politics in part so that...
Summers was able to use his bully pulpit to push issues and ideas that were important to him, MacFarquhar says...
...wake of Sept. 11, Summers used his bully pulpit to call for a reconciliation between Harvard liberal elites and the military, and suggested the University should reconsider its policy...
Opposition may prove too much for even the most aggressive proponent of the bully pulpit...