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Word: pulpiteering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Which is why it's curious and even a little dangerous for the White House to have picked immigration as the issue to planish a presidency's rough edges. Few issues divide Bush's party so much, yet this week the President plans to launch an extensive bully-pulpit campaign on immigration. He is scheduled to travel with Senator John McCain, who with Senator Edward Kennedy has co-written a bill that would give millions of illegal immigrants the chance to earn citizenship. That would enrage G.O.P. conservatives who believe the U.S. should secure its borders and deport illegal aliens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Both Sides of the Fence | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...fundamentally a question of reconnecting with the American people," says a senior member of the Bush team. "One of the good things about being President of the United States is that even when you're down, you have the ability to control your own destiny through the bully pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Time to Regroup | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...that echoed over the heads of the Death Cab for Cutie fans while they waited in line for the tickets to be gathered carried over to the inside experience. Sadly, grief was matched only by sedation when the band finally made their way onto monochrome stage.The press and the pulpit gave their piece to the fluttering of gossip about the group as early as 1998. Within just a few months of the release of “Something About Airplanes,” the band’s second well-praised album, one reviewer from Pitchfork.com wrote...

Author: By Adam C. Estes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Death Throes for Indie Cuties | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...complicit in omertà, the mob code of protective silence. But most are scared that the government cannot protect them if they talk. Lingering in front of the cathedral after Fortugno's funeral, Giuseppe Macri, 50, says he was skeptical that all the strong words spoken from the pulpit would be followed by action. "Calabria is the most neglected region in Italy," he says. "There's always someone else's emergency that comes before ours. We Calabrians have lost faith. We know next week, all the attention will be gone." Macri's only son will be finishing high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Comes To Locri | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...Late to Win This War?" illustrate that TIME has no idea what this enemy is like. Nor do you understand that the insurgents will not negotiate or play by the rules. They will not give up until they are defeated. I hope the President will use his bully pulpit to put that in perspective for the uninformed who think that the U.S. has made a mistake and that the war against terrorism is a video game you can wind up before dinner. William H. Files Evansville, Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

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