How To Use Soapbox In A Sentence
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He was a big clumsy galoot in how he delivered his theory, but you don't have to look that far to see what set him upon his soapbox.
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The news had no real news, just endless presidential openings or soapbox speeches.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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New commuters who embrace the "lifestyle" are far often way to self-congratulating and hate on other forms of transportation, which turns off a lot of people to "people who ride bikes/cyclists" in general. (how many times have i heard someone get up on a soapbox about the evil of cars without having any idea about where the person they are lecturing is coming from?)
We Need People Who Ride Bikes, Not Cyclists « PubliCola
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Environmental activists have climbed on their soapboxes to protest the president's action.
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But choking off open discussion/critique is a common practice of any number of authoritarian soapboxes on the Web.
An explicit statement of the prescriptivist philosophy « Motivated Grammar
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We were interested in pushing forward certain issues and getting up on our soapbox about them.
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Therefore I feel obliged to get up on my soapbox and voice my opinion.
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One of them climbed aboard a soapbox and began informing the locals why gays should be allowed in the military.
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Shorter "lotusland soapbox": "I'm shocked at the crudity of Republican political discourse and smear tactics.
Archive 2008-10-01
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Also, etiquette and netiquette are key words here, and your equivalent of shouting out on soapbox isn't gonna bring anything more productive than witty remarks (I held my breath and counted to 10 too).
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They believe their own hype, and they have a powerful soapbox from which to promote it.
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Thomas' article, counterpointed by a more persuasive discourse by security consultant Martin, seems to be soapbox oratory on behalf of the company.
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In short, this law will provide a soapbox for extremists of all types.
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I'm not using this soapbox to slam the concept of equity financing, nor the venture capitalists who make it possible.
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Through the use of chat rooms, any person with a phone line can become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox.
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Share a professional concern with a close confidante or intimate Saturday, but come Sunday you must get on your soapbox.
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Please don't let reporters use it as a soapbox for moralizing.
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She never misses the chance to get on her soapbox about government reform.
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Sir Alex Ferguson, by his own admission, was on a soapbox at Carrington this morning after what he described as a thoroughly depressing week.
The Guardian World News
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Thus, blogs can function as a teen's diary, a political pundit's soapbox, or even simply as one person's view of the news.
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He never questioned his own devotion to theater; an actor's actor, he would set up on a soapbox and perform for a scarce audience if the situation called for it.
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They served to link isolated communities and provide a voice and soapbox for the voiceless.
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Here he comes, puttering up in his little soapbox derby car with its duck horn.
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Blogging Tory "the lotusland soapbox" deigns to lecture us on political gender equality:
Archive 2008-10-01
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His new pal helps him fulfil his dream of becoming a soapbox derby champion, much to his family's disapproval.
The Sun
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He likened the Internet to Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, London, where robust opinions can be expressed - but with the speaker using old technology called a soapbox.
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Is it about using our purses genuinely to do our bit, or are we just jumping on a conscience-cleansing soapbox already over-populated by celebrities and eco-warriors?
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An effigy of the kaiser is washed down Wall Street with a fire hose; confetti pours down; 800 Barnard girls snake-dance on Morningside Heights, and a coffin made of soapboxes is paraded down Madison, with the kaiser symbolically resting in pieces within.
L. Debard and Aliette
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To the side of it stood a lonely soapbox and a microphone.
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However, I'm also reminded of an analogy between blogs and old-style soapbox speakers in City parks.
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MattY’s quixotic notion that the Senate ought to be abolished is the sorta thing folks used to stand on soapboxes in public parks to talk about, sorta like Ron Paul insisting on the gold standard.
Matthew Yglesias » Trapped in the Senate
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It was also in the 1970's that Mic joined the legendary Pram Factory Theatre in Melbourne, creating Soapbox Circus, where he was ringmaster, musician, juggler and acrobat.
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Standing on soapboxes, handing out pamphlets, mass demonstrations - is there enough legal protection for those who want to make a political point in a public space?
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While the media certainly has the obligation to report on the news, one wonders how much complicity it is taking on by giving these sorts of groups such an open and fairly uncritical soapbox on which to make their demands.
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First, these protests allowed workers to express their political views; as already noted, in this respect they might be seen as similar to the soapbox speakers and the cafeterias which lined the Square.
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He was the soapbox orator who could quote Virgil or Shakespeare to give dignity to a bitter grudge.
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The whole thing turned into an opportunistic political catfight, with booksellers given a soapbox and a spotlight to use in trying to make a buck off the pain and suffering of a nation.
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I don't like getting on a soapbox, I am not a spokesperson for any of this, I am just an actor - but it is kind of curious.
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But Tamte isn't atop a soapbox regaling a tale of sudden abandonment from the Japanese publisher, saying that Konami was very honest about its position, though he recalls how surprised his team was when they found out they had lost funding.
Joystiq
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He was the soapbox orator who could quote Virgil or Shakespeare to give dignity to a bitter grudge.
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The fact that individual reporters would still have rights to distribute homemade handbills or orate from a soapbox would mean little.
Kent Greenfield: Why Progressives Should Oppose A Constitutional Amendment to End Corporate "Personhood"
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However, I will not stay quiet when a preacher gets on his soapbox and tries to persuade us to buy what clearly amounts to simple gaudery.
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Excuse me while I climb off my soapbox, and go on living my life! selah says:
Me no rike remonade - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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We all get a chance to stand on our soapboxes and yabber on about whatever strikes our fancy, yet we are also happy to spend the time reading what others have to say and discussing what's on their minds with them too.
Bloggers are Great People
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Yet whenever I get on my activist soapbox I am reminded by fellow childcare providers that ‘at least you get paid to stay at home with your baby,’ as if caring for my own child is some kind of grand extravagance.
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However, I'm also reminded of an analogy between blogs and old-style soapbox speakers in City parks.
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It definitely has a place in music, but it's not our thing to stand on a soapbox and speak out.
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Oh and does anybody have a good soapbox for me to stand on?
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If we find out that professors already believe they have all the answers, and that they view their positions as mere soapboxes for their own political beliefs, well, then that is corruption.
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In addition, the Constitution protects not only the sermons of a solitary activist, standing on a corner soapbox.
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Answers a soapbox to vent your frustrations, rant, or otherwise violate the question and answer format.
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One of them climbed aboard a soapbox and began informing the locals why gays should be allowed in the military.
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If not, what does it take to convince you that you're providing a soapbox to an unstable lunatic?
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We need to stop allowing these people who have soapboxes to put whatever conspiratory plotline they saw on TV show in our heads and making baseless accusations just to get us worked up amongst ourselves.
Avlon: Partisan politics ought to end at the water’s edge
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Ok, off the soapbox Mr M, it's late and I'm tired and ratty.
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It stretches the powers of even the most experienced muckrakers and soapbox haranguers to find the least routine and boring bits of nonsense to present to us as the news.
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But I'll get up on my soapbox about almost anything if I hear someone else express a strong opinion about it that I don't agree with.
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I wanted to talk about the pension age. It's rather a soapbox of mine.
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These new suffragists took to the streets, organizing mass parades, automobile caravans, and soapbox speaking.
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We were interested in pushing forward certain issues and getting up on our soapbox about them.
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Seroiusly, do these idiots pay any attention to the LAW they are charged with upholding or has it really all just become a game of waving the wang from the soapbox to pander to subsets of the public identified by polling?
Abortion issue clouds health care debate
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So while I haven't stopped caring about designing and developing for the Web, I don't publicly stand on that particular soapbox that much anymore.
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Every couple of feet one stood on a soapbox and made angry speeches to passing picketers.
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And while I'm on this soapbox, don't forget to give blood if you are eligible.
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Throughout the week, a great number of teams who didn't get to grace the finals stage - including the teams from New York's Louder Arts and St. Paul's Soapboxing slams highlighted in a story that aired on WBUR-FM -- delivered generally well-wrought and decidedly practiced work in more confined, sold-out venues, combining the intimacy of theater with the intensity of prizefight.
Phil West: Poetry Slam at 25: Why Some People Stand in Line in the Rain to Hear Poems
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To some it is the lowest form of radio, yet the phone-in show, that bizarre combo of confessional, soapbox and sounding board, is the one medium where the public ceases to be a statistic and actually finds its voice.
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Environmental activists have climbed on their soapboxes to protest the president's action.
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Like the soapbox speakers, the cafeterias offered working-class people places to debate and discuss a wide range of issues.
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I could see myself standing on a soapbox or addressing my adoring subjects from a balcony.
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Honest and heartfelt though these sentiments may be, this sort of unsubtle, soapbox writing has no place in a work purporting to be serious literature.
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It seems that you would rather get up on your soapbox and shout then have a meaningful conversation.
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Blogging Tory "lotusland soapbox" asks, "Ever Seen Something So Stupid It Makes Your Head Spin?
Archive 2008-06-01
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Sometimes it gave me the chance to mount my soapbox and sound off on subjects I care passionately about, and sometimes it opened my mind to new topics and ideas that I then went on to write about.
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Nevertheless, I have an opportunity to get up on the soapbox here and rant and rave, and a candidate should show an ability to grasp a variety of social issues.
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We were interested in pushing forward certain issues and getting up on our soapbox about them.
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But at the same time, as a multireligious and increasingly wealthy country, India automatically gives Pakistanis a luxury they lack at home: a giant soapbox from which to challenge the weight of intolerance within their own society.
Beyond Cricket Diplomacy