Sample Sentences foremolument (editor-reviewed)
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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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Baby-linen—for babies then wore robes of state—afforded still another possibility of toil and emolument.† (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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Have you posts of profitable pecuniary emolument?† (source)
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Great emoluments of the spiritual variety in toiling close to Nature.† (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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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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"No, no, it is not in the militia," cried Elizabeth, showing the packet in her hand, and then drawing it back with a coquettish air; "it is an office of both honor and emolument."† (source)
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His age bore certain fruits, emoluments of service.† (source)
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No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.† (source)
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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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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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He claimed, at least, none of the exemptions and emoluments of the romantic passion.† (source)
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No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.† (source)
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