preferment

How To Use preferment In A Sentence

• The monarchs and bierarchs of Bacon's day do appear, but chiefly as recipients of the stream of anxious supplications for preferment Bacon submits throughout his ‘troubled life’.
• I think they are more in touch with the part of their organisation that will provide them with preferment in their party.
• And there were occasional cracks in gentry solidarity — especially when opportunity for preferment presented itself. Gutenber-e Help Page
• The most credible left wing candidates for succession or preferment would not change much of the last manifesto.
• Although he had previously opposed royal policies, he was a believer in firm government and accepted preferment in order to uphold the king's power.
• A notable pluralist, he received lucrative ecclesiastical preferments from the king, including prebends in six cathedrals, pensions, and livings.
• Others are discommoded because a constituency colleague has won preferment.
• The man was evidently consumed by ambition, highly interested in pelf and preferment, and a natural Tory who defended the slave trade and imperialism, which Adam Smith so much deplored. Triumph at Trafalgar
• Sentences "and the" Summa Theologica "stood a better chance of preferment than he who had mastered Saint Paul. Beacon Lights of History
• For some the door is the threshold to still greater fame and preferment; for others, it's the open jaws of the political crematorium. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS