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bully pulpit |
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a bully pulpit (American) an important job or position that someone can use to persuade other people to accept their ideas. The presidency is a wonderful bully pulpit to convince the country of the need for a balanced budget. See also: bully |
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Tom McClintock for lieutenant governor: Every candidate for this second-in-command job says they are going to make the position less ceremonial and use the bully pulpit to push important policy. Each chapter describes in detail how the Business Roundtable has used the bully pulpit to systematically bash America's public schools and push its agenda to privatize or change the public schools to its liking. You waste a page and our dime to give this professional self-promoter a bully pulpit on yet another antigay tirade. |
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