You're preaching to the choir.

But Putin is not merely preaching values.

Behaviour is the highest form of preaching.

I'm fed up with him always preaching to me.

Jehovah's Witnesses are known for their door to door preaching.

He was preaching God's Word to a small group of believers.

Experts have been preaching crop diversity, irrigation, and improved soil nutrients for decades.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

By all accounts a reasonable man, Funes faces an uphill battle in preaching moderation.

Not by preaching, not by telling, not by reading, but by addressing your mind.

It attributed the rise to the nationalistic preaching that has taken root in both countries.

Preaching nationalism, its managers will believe in their universal competence, as opposed to KGB style professionalism and corporatism.

But, while preaching free market doctrines abroad, the US bails out its airlines and increases agricultural subsidies at home.

At home, he exasperated party politicians by preaching the need for morality in politics or by warning against excessive partisanship.

Europe's lukewarm if not outright hostile response to John Paul II's revivalist preaching testifies to the difficulty of this assignment.

With the Bank tirelessly preaching the merits of good governance, its failure to adopt democratic principles undercuts its own legitimacy.

It is in such circumstances that the key feature of terrorism comes into play the preaching of hate by often self appointed leaders.

One who speaks very good English and who would, preferably, before preaching about love, provide warrants to defend himself against the charge of terrorism.

Several cities of Germany obtained the privileges of the jubilee , as indulgences were called, but the preaching of indulgences led to abuses and scandal.

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.

So, preaching for freedom of speech is easy here, but as you have seen in contexts of repression or division, again, what can a cartoonist do?

Before airplanes existed, he traveled to more parts of the world than I have been, preaching the radical word of love, peace and social justice. The word of Islam.

But after years of preaching and practicing one of Zionism s main tenets, will the removal of settlements continue in the West Bank, or will this be a one time exception?

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.

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 privatization and social repression, he has placed himself to the right of the right, hoping to take back the votes that the mainstream right has been losing to Jean Marie Le Pen s fascistoid National Front for the past 20 years.

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.

With the Bank tirelessly preaching the merits of good governance, its failure to adopt democratic principles undercuts its own legitimacy. The claim that the World Bank needs an American president to ensure that the US keeps donating money is ridiculous.

I was preaching in San Jose some time ago, and my friend Mark Kvamme, who helped introduce me to this conference, brought several CEOs and leaders of some of the companies here in the Silicon Valley to have breakfast with me, or I with them.

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). The international community has yet to figure out what to do with an aberrant member who fails to live up to its responsibilities as a global citizen.