(n.) An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.
(n.) The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.
(n.) A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wanted to make a big ideological point, and I had but one weapon in my arsenal: a pulpit that I could use to denounce the very thing that had given me a voice.
(2) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(3) So everything I do from the pulpit comes out of what I did as a librettist."
(4) Here’s how the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News — Exxon’s hometown paper, the morning read of the oil patch— put it in an editorial last week: “With profits to protect, Exxon provided climate-change doubters a bully pulpit they didn’t deserve and gave lawmakers the political cover to delay global action until long after the environmental damage had reached severe levels.
(5) "We are disappointed that he hasn't talked or used his bully pulpit.
(6) This new pope seems to have genuine concern for the most challenged members of society and better still seems to be prepared to use his pulpit to help them.
(7) He used his presidential bully pulpit to help elevate gun control from a fringe issue to a central policy priority for the Democratic party.
(8) And at the Globe theatre in central London on Sunday – even as Catholics were being urged from thousands of pulpits across the country to oppose gay marriage – there was no shortage of same-sex couples ready to heed his encouragement.
(9) An encyclical raises the prospect of speeches on climate change from the pulpit of more than 17,000 Catholic parishes.
(10) It would be disingenuous to use its problems as a bully pulpit for basic income.” He has also highlighted the risk that removing the obligation for those on benefits to look for work might encourage some people to drift into long-term worklessness .
(11) From the start, because it had a preaching pulpit but no church, it was associated with dissenters — as Bunhill Fields later became.
(12) "If he can use his bully pulpit like this I think the American people are going to get it."
(13) The Roman Catholic church provides constancy and many analysts claim Law and Justice will win the election thanks to its support from rural pulpits.
(14) "Even in the church, the priest will announce from the pulpit not to shake hands or touch," he says.
(15) The packed pink-walled church was attentive and welcoming of his message about El Señor, delivered not in the pulpit, but standing just in front of the first pews.
(16) This article deals with a type of pulpit spectacles which have been specially developed for emmetropic presbyopes.
(17) A dedicated fanbase absorb the virtues of a movie from the pulpit – Mission Pictures have close ties with ministries worldwide and provide worship packs to accompany releases – and they won't be shy about spreading the word.
(18) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(19) "Back then, at a time when there was barbed wire outside and police were not at his side, he stood at this pulpit and dared speak truth to power, truth to evil.
(20) I was lucky that my family, although poor, was enlightened enough to know that the hatred preached from the pulpits or espoused in the tabloids, was utter rubbish.
Stern
Definition:
(n.) The black tern.
(superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
(v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
(v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
(v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.
(v. t.) The hinder part of anything.
(v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
(a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(3) Quenching of intrinsic fluorescence of (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase by acrylamide, performed in the presence of Ca2+, gave evidence for a single class of tryptophan residues with Stern-Volmer constant (KSV) of 10 M-1.
(4) The death of your battery is now one of the factors that will push you to upgrade.” As Joanna Stern put it in her review of the iPhone 6s in the Wall Street Journal: “The No 1 thing people want in a smartphone is better battery life.
(5) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
(6) Heshel Melamed, a stern rabbinical paterfamilias, was his maternal grandfather.
(7) Professor Lord Stern of the London School of Economics, the author of the influential Stern Report into the economics of climate change for the Treasury in 2006, warned that if the pattern continued, the results would be dire.
(8) The influential economist, Lord Nicholas Stern, welcomed the proposal as "strong and reasonable" and "with the interests of developing countries at its heart".
(9) Tryptophanyl fluorescence of the lipoprotein assembly was quenched as indicated by a reduction in the effective Stern-Volmer constant.
(10) "There's funding that was agreed to as part of the Copenhagen accord, and as a general matter, the US is going to use its funds to go to countries that have indicated an interest to be part of the accord," the state department envoy, Todd Stern, told the Washington Post.
(11) 3.43am BST Spurs 57-56 Heat - 6:15 remaining, 3rd quarter And some thoughts via email from Daniel Vazquez-Paluch: I can't help wondering if LeBron is a victim of Stern's rule changes more than his own tendency to disappear.
(12) It "failed to recognise the significance" of damage to a gas fracking well in 2011 and did not report it to government officials for six months, leading to a stern reprimand by the energy minister, papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show.
(13) Treatment with chymotrypsin to block the E1 to E2 transition results in a new set of quenching parameters which are unchanged with Na or K. Even after detergent denaturation (1% sodium dodecyl sulfate for 30 min), Stern-Volmer plots are nonlinear, and a significant fraction of tryptophan residues remain inaccessible to quencher.
(14) (At the time, he told shockjock Howard Stern on the record that he approved of it.)
(15) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
(16) At low quencher concentrations, the quenching follows the classical Stern-Volmer law.
(17) A couple of times I’ve raised my voice, been stern and they’ve responded.
(18) Quenching of pyrene fluorescence emission of labeled ATPase by acrylamide and cesium chloride gave linear Stern-Volmer plots.
(19) In a wide-ranging news conference at the end of the G7 summit in the Wetterstein Mountains in Germany, Obama issued a stern warning against Russia, accepted praise for the work of US prosecutors at confronting corruption in world soccer, gave the US supreme court advice on how to rule in an upcoming healthcare case and defended his immigration policies.
(20) Orthodontic treatment in those days, like life in general, was simple and stern.