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bully pulpit

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bully pulpit
n.
An advantageous position, as for making one's views known or rallying support: "The presidency had been transformed from a bully pulpit on Pennsylvania Avenue to a stage the size of the world" (Hugh Sidey).
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Noun1.bully pulpit - a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter; "the American presidency is a bully pulpit"
public office - a position concerning the people as a whole


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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.
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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.
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You waste a page and our dime to give this professional self-promoter a bully pulpit on yet another antigay tirade.
False prophets by Santerre, Albert / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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