How To Use Preferment In A Sentence
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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’.
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I think they are more in touch with the part of their organisation that will provide them with preferment in their party.
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And there were occasional cracks in gentry solidarity — especially when opportunity for preferment presented itself.
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The most credible left wing candidates for succession or preferment would not change much of the last manifesto.
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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.
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A notable pluralist, he received lucrative ecclesiastical preferments from the king, including prebends in six cathedrals, pensions, and livings.
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Others are discommoded because a constituency colleague has won preferment.
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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
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Sentences "and the" Summa Theologica "stood a better chance of preferment than he who had mastered Saint Paul.
Beacon Lights of History
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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
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The media love this sort of stuff - and a network of opportunists in the bureaucracy can always be found to present their future masters with the hard evidence in the hopes of future preferment.
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I wrote to him at different dates; regretted that I could not come to London this spring, but hoped we should meet somewhere in the summer; mentioned the state of my affairs, and suggested hopes of some preferment; informed him, that as The Beauties of Johnson had been published in London, some obscure scribbler had published at Edinburgh what he called The deformities of Johnson.
Life Of Johnson
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Alternatively, such an entry might mean a temporary absence, on Church business if not a foray in quest of preferment.
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This is why the public sector needs to be above preferment and dealism.
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We cannot function as a country if there is politically and legally sanctioned preferment for one group.
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By that time he'll be in his late forties and ripe for a plum preferment.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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Chafing at his position of dependence, and indignant at Temple's delay in getting him preferment, he returned to Ireland, was ordained, and received the small prebend of Kilroot.
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He says that an ambitious tantivy, [2] missing of his towering hopes of preferment in Ireland, is come over to vent his spleen on the late Ministry, etc.
The Journal to Stella
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Then I did meekly remind her of her flirtatious preferences for the young beef-witted London chaps, and her incertitude and disdainful capriciousness towards myself, who was not a beetlehead or an obtuse, but a cultivated native gentleman with high-class university degree, and an oratorical flow of language which was infallibly to land me upon the pinnacle of some tip-top judicial preferment in the Calcutta High Court of Justice.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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The endowments of the mind -- reason, wit, learning, must be used in subserviency to religion; the enjoyments of the world -- estate, credit, interest, power, preferment, must be improved for the honour of Christ.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Pentecost, where he resigned his bishoprike into the popes hands (as the fame went) being troubled in conscience for that he had receiued it by the kings preferment.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
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Others again desire knowledge in order to acquire money or preferment by it; that too is a discreditable quest.
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His preferment pleased his many admirers.
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In the race for wealth, honours and preferment [a man] may run as hard as he can and strain every nerve and muscle in order to outstrip all of his competitors.
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Great preferment for poor Madge to be brought up the street wi’ a grand man, wi’ a coat a’ passemented wi’ worset-lace, to speak wi’ provosts, and bailies, and town-clerks, and prokitors, at this time o’ day — and the haill town looking at me too — This is honour on earth for ance!”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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By midwinter these intraband tensions were exacerbated as Big Road's own young men reacted suspiciously to their leader's preferment.
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He says that an ambitious tantivy, [2] missing of his towering hopes of preferment in
The Journal to Stella
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But perhaps Lord Flaxton will fail to produce the magic preferment out of his coronet.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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These unconstitutional preferments were supposed to be temporary expedients to jumpstart racial integration.
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He shall have all the good words that may be given, [2082] a proper man, and 'tis pity he hath no preferment, all good wishes, but inexorable, indurate as he is, he will not prefer him, though it be in his power, because he is indotatus, he hath no money.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It spread rapidly, to the detriment of Spanish, because it was the new language of government, preferment, and education.
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Yet the one shall be dubbed a hero, the other called an admirable fellow, and be contended for by every client, and his double-tongued abilities shall carry him through all the high preferments of the law with reputation and applause.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Courtenay's aristocratic connections carried him rapidly up the ladder of preferment.
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the preferment went to the younger candidate
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The appointment was the officer's last posting, offering no prospect of promotion or preferment thereafter.
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His aristocratic and clerical connections ensured his rapid preferment, but he was only a minor pluralist.
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It was at this moment in her day when she received supplicants for preferment in the court, members of the administration or the armed forces over which she wielded great influence.
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His voluminous surviving correspondence is full of letters from noblemen of all ranks eager to gain his favour or reporting on tasks that he had given them in the hope of further preferment.
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Sheldon's patronage preferments followed apace, and Stradling was soon a substantial pluralist.
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The great honour which Nebuchadnezzar put upon Daniel, in recompence for this service, and the preferment of his companions with him, ver.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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He had held very numerous preferments, including no less than five archdeaconries, and was Master of the Rolls.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See
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Others again desire knowledge in order to acquire money or preferment by it; that too is a discreditable quest.
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But you may be on your way to preferment in the new Administration.
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A biga is a preferment, a mixture of flour, liquid, and yeast that is allowed extra time to ferment slowly -- long and slow being key elements in the making of good bread -- to build flavor that it will then pass on to the bread when it is mixed into the dough.
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His literary career, combined with his reputation for eccentricity, dandyism, and a love of dancing and theatre, prevented his preferment in the Church.
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According to Professor G.M. Trevelyan (England Under Queen Anne), part of the reason for Swifts failure to get preferment was that the Queen was scandalized by the Tale of a Tuba pamphlet in which Swift probably felt that he had done a great service to the English Crown, since it scarifies the Dissenters and still more the Catholics while leaving the Established Church alone.
Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gullivers Travels
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Colleagues vie with each other for preferment, yet must closely collaborate to fend off competition from without.
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Now, as for those in our church who contend for the ceremonies, many of them are led by such _argumenta inartificialia_, as wealth, preferment, &c., and if conscience be at all looked to by them, yet they only throw and extort an assent and allowance from it, when worldly respects have made them to propend and incline to an anterior liking of the ceremonies.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Money was being subscribed liberally by persons of good family who hoped for political preferment and could not get it from the old parties, and by corporations tired of being "blackmailed" by Kelly and
The Conflict
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Hearne continued a staunch nonjuror to the end of his days, and refused many University appointments, including the Keepership of the Bodleian Library, which he might have had, had he been willing to take the oath of allegiance to the government; but he preferred, to use his own words, 'a good conscience before all manner of preferment and worldly honour. '
English Book Collectors
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The Aristocrat's esthetic consciousness is one kind of esthetic pursue, like self-conscious, reflect society's lofty esthetic interest. It also clearly preferment the literature's surmounting side.
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More important, the premium on "original" research has caused the eclipse of teaching and resulted in the overproduction of jargon-heavy esoterica or trivial "scholarship" intended merely to win preferment within the professors guild.
Hello, Adjunct, Meet Prof. Cozy
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Those are truly honourable, and those only, in place of power and trust, who make conscience of their duty, and whose deportment is agreeable to their preferment.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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When knaves come to preferment, they rise as gallowses are raised in the Low Countries, one upon another's shoulders.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
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He reestablished the Polish language in the schools and churches of Posen, that is of Prussian-Poland, nominated a Polish ecclesiastic to the archbishopric of that province, and conferred so many court dignities, government offices, and decorations upon the compatriots of the fair Jenny, as to give rise to the remark that the best road to imperial preferment at Berlin was to add the Polish and feminine termination of “ska” to one's name.
The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe
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To hang on a royse, his future roya, future dispenser of position, wealth, preferment, military opportunity ---well, there you have it.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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Preferment should be based on merit and not pliability.
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The elevation of his patron to the highest dignity of the empire, of course opened to Kara-Mustapha the road to fortune and preferment -- from his first post of deputy to the _meer-akhor_, or master of the horse, he was promoted to the rank of pasha of two tails -- and after holding the governments successively of Silistria and Diarbekr was nominated capitan-pasha in 1662 by his brother-in-law Ahmed; but exchanged that appointment in the following year for the office of kaimakam, in which capacity he was left in charge of the capital on the departure of the vizir to the army in Hungary.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
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preferment of charges
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This is why the insiders' network is so strong - its members look after each other with appointments and preferment.
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He secured all kinds of preferment from local cadres, and even several marriage proposals from attractive and ambitious young ladies, before his exposure.
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I will be a country gentleman, in the true sense of the word, and will accept of no favour that shall make any one think I would not be of the opposition when I think it a necessary one; as, on the other hand, I should scorn to make myself a round to any man’s ladder of preferment, or a caballer for the sake of my own.”
Pamela
