the pulpit
讲坛,讲台上,讲台,讲坛上
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- : a platform or raised structure in a church, from which the sermon is delivered or the service is conducted.
- : the pulpit, the clerical profession; the ministry.members of the clergy collectively: In attendance were representatives of medicine, the pulpit, and the bar.
- : the position of pastor or rabbi: He heard of a pulpit in Chicago that was about to be vacated.
- : the work of a preacher; preaching.
- : bully pulpit.
- : a safety rail rising about 18 to 30 inches from the deck near the bow and extending around it.a similar rail at the stern.
- : a control booth in a factory, usually elevated and glass-enclosed, from which an operator can observe and direct the manufacturing process.
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It can’t just be talking points, it can’t just be words from a pulpit, you have to put action behind it.
The broadcasts have become a pulpit for the president’s verbal attacks against those who disagree with him.
Gloria made clear he will use his mayoral pulpit to champion the plan.
A Belgian church has a chalkboard sitting at the pulpit with the jungle peeking through the windows behind it.
Reinke lost his pulpit and was drummed out of the conservative Missouri Synod of the Lutheran denomination.
He is also accused of using the pulpit to further a cult of personality surrounding himself.
To Hice, I suppose, speaking the “biblical truth” means endorsing John McCain from the pulpit, like he did in 2008.
Look, Hice has every right to spew his hate from the pulpit to those who chose to attend his services.
Samuel Badcock, an English divine and writer, died; admired as a pulpit orator and a man of literary talent.
"It has been a most merciful escape," Maloney said, his pulpit voice struggling with his emotion.
A mob attacked him in the pulpit; the military fired upon the people, and 10 persons were killed and 16 wounded.
The lectern, as the pulpit-stand in English churches is called, was fashioned of oak taken from Nelson's flagship, the Victory.
Against plays, players, and playgoers they waged in pulpit and pamphlet a warfare characterized by the most intense fanaticism.