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Definition of Bully pulpit
1. Noun. 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"
Definition of Bully pulpit
1. Noun. (American English) an advantageous position from which to express one's views ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bully Pulpit
Literary usage of Bully pulpit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adult Literacy And New Technologies: Tools For A Lifetime by Office of Technology Assessment (1994)
"... and the Indian Education Act. Public Awareness, "bully pulpit," and National
Leadership President Herbert Hoover's 1929 advisory committee on national ..."
2. The Teamsters Investigation: Hearing Before the Committee on Education & the edited by Peter Hoekstra (2001)
"I think we've got the same objective in mind and I'm hoping that you can use your
bully pulpit and would actually ask you to use your bully pulpit to help ..."
3. The Role of Natural Gas in Environmental Policy by Stephen L. McDonald, Mina Mohammadioun (1993)
"The bully pulpit includes talking to every audience that will have me about the
need for all new utility boilers to burn natural gas, the advantages of ..."
4. Third Party Movements Since the Civil War, with a Special Reference to Iowa by Frederick Emory Haynes, State Historical Society of Iowa (1916)
"... he had "such a bully pulpit".903 It is difficult to estimate the results of
such multitudinous activity, but that it contributed to the changed attitude ..."
5. Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt by Lawrence Fraser Abbott (1919)
"... official speeches as "preaching," and he more than once said that he put what
he had to say in the form of sermons because he had such a "bully pulpit. ..."
6. One America Indivisible: A National Conversation on American Pluralism and by Sheldon Hackney (1999)
"... National Conversation initiative: "Dr. Hackney is trying to use the bully
pulpit without preaching. He wants to be a convener rather than an ayatollah. ..."
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