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A clause in the U.S. constitution prevents sitting legislators from receiving emoluments from their own votes.emoluments = compensations
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The government official was accused of accepting emoluments from foreign governments in violation of the Constitution.emoluments = payments
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The President of the United States shall, at stated times, receive for his service a compensation which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected; and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them. (source)emolument = compensation
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But what neither Franklin nor Adams was ever to know was that Bancroft, too, was a British spy, his "emoluments" from the Crown amounting to 500 pounds per year.† (source)
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Great emoluments of the spiritual variety in toiling close to Nature.† (source)
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His age bore certain fruits, emoluments of service.† (source)
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He claimed, at least, none of the exemptions and emoluments of the romantic passion.† (source)
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After withholding taxes this meant that the anemic blue check placed on my desk each Friday by the hunchbacked little woman who managed the payroll represented emolument in the nature of a little over ninety cents an hour.† (source)
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Nobody, however, had been there, and I suspect no one desired to go there in person, just as an astronomer, I should fancy, would strongly object to being transported into a distant heavenly body, where, parted from his earthly emoluments, he would be bewildered by the view of an unfamiliar heavens.† (source)
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I had a great liking for you, and your defection, your going back to private practice merely for commercial gain, your selling out for what I presume is a very high emolument, is one of the very greatest blows I have recently had to sustain.† (source)
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The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.† (source)
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Some of Mr. Whitefield's enemies affected to suppose that he would apply these collections to his own private emolument; but I who was intimately acquainted with him (being employed in printing his Sermons and Journals, etc.), never had the least suspicion of his integrity, but am to this day decidedly of opinion that he was in all his conduct a perfectly honest man, and methinks my testimony in his favour ought to have the more weight, as we had no religious connection.† (source)
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Holding the office directly from the crown, I believe, all the royal emoluments incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his.† (source)
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"Honor and emolument!" echoed Richard, in painful suspense; "show me the paper, girl.† (source)
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That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of stipendiary emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly due and payable.† (source)
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Customers came in, as the forenoon advanced, but rather slowly; in some cases, too, it must be owned, with little satisfaction either to themselves or Miss Hepzibah; nor, on the whole, with an aggregate of very rich emolument to the till.† (source)
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