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Was the preaching of LDS Missionaries to my parents in England a white supremist act?
I am totally open to Spike Lee preaching, Bamboozled was a great movie with an important message, but it was just one message!
I concluded my pitch by saying, with perhaps a little more cheek than was appropriate, “But of course I’m preaching to the converted.”
Meanwhile, Sanders is preaching a political revolution.
They applauded him everywhere on his recent trip to Europe, but sent him home almost empty-handed, resisting the idea of a coordinated fiscal stimulus and, after years of preaching multilateralism, turning down his call for more European troops for Afghanistan.
Its own history of colonial rule makes it wary of preaching its ways to foreign civilizations, and underscores its conviction that each country must determine its own political destiny.
At home, he exasperated party politicians by preaching the need for morality in politics or by warning against excessive partisanship.
But what most characterizes Latin America’s experience is that, despite publicly preaching the virtues of a floating rate, the authorities actively intervene in currency markets, this time in different and creative ways.
When it comes to air pollution, however, Europe’s policymakers should stop preaching to others and focus on fixing their own problems.
And still, after twenty years of preaching that private markets would pick up the slack, these impoverished communities are further away than ever from using improved seeds, fertilizers, and small-scale water management technologies.
In the preaching of Islamists seeking recruits, he notes, are “descriptions of a paradise more similar to a bordello than the reward for pious individuals, fantasies of virgins for suicide bombers, morality police chasing down women showing too much skin, the puritanism of dictatorship, veils, and burqas.”
What about the millions of red-state Americans who have been preaching hard work, family values, self-reliance, and small government, while practicing the opposite?
But Putin is not merely preaching values.
Without two-way interaction, there is no learning or understanding; there is only preaching.
For the past year, the International Monetary Fund has been preaching monetary stringency to the developing world.
Experts have been preaching crop diversity, irrigation, and improved soil nutrients for decades.
The drawback for the students was that they were being indoctrinated; their school preaching support for terrorism.
For years, both the US and Europe engaged in a monumental exercise in political hypocrisy, preaching the gospel of democratic change while supporting Arab tyrants.
One way of doing so would be to stop preaching at one another, and instead engage in constructive and open-minded discussions.
Isolated, destitute, and in a state of permanent rage, the French banlieues and immigrant ghettos of British cities have turned into powder kegs where young Muslims easily fall prey to radical religious preaching and political extremism.
Preaching the virtues of a rule-based order to others, but being coy about some of those rules oneself, is not a good look.
With the Bank tirelessly preaching the merits of good governance, its failure to adopt democratic principles undercuts its own legitimacy.
Although the author of "The Clash of Civilizations" claims he wants better understanding between civilizations, he fans the flames he pretends to want to put out by preaching that conflict stems not from the barrel of a gun but from the pulpit of a creed.
As we know from environmental regulation, preaching common sense or ethics to bankers will not help; but changing bankers’ incentives – by, say, requiring higher equity-asset ratios – would work wonders.
Hundreds of angry Web sites have cropped up, the most extreme preaching the ideology of al-Qaeda and its ilk.
But here the American propensity for gratuitous preaching led to unnecessary strain in her talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government.
In the summer of 2016, with his campaign lacking a leader, Trump made Bannon – a scruffy, scrappy former businessman who was then the executive chair of Breitbart News, a website preaching white nationalism – the campaign’s chief executive.
After first disputing that there was scientific evidence of the problem, the largest polluter in the world, the US, is now simply refusing to do anything about it (other than preaching voluntary restraint—of which there is little evidence, at least in America).
By all accounts a reasonable man, Funes faces an uphill battle in preaching moderation.
But, while preaching free market doctrines abroad, the US bails out its airlines and increases agricultural subsidies at home.
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