preferment sentence examples

• It is unwise to trust those who seek preferment, status or a seat on the security council.
• Simony is the buying of ecclesiastical preferment - how does this affect the whole story?
• In any matter touching church preferment you would of course be listened to.
• Several others are north countrymen; others held preferment in the diocese before they became bishops thereof.
• Well, my decision is that you had better look for some other preferment.
• Within the church, cathedral preferments were eagerly sought after and their holders represented a recognized elite.
• But again i've no doubt that membership is abused to give or obtain personal preferment.
• Urban iv. repeatedly offered him high ecclesiastical preferment, which he in his humility declined.
• There have been many examples of freemasons using their membership to gain preferment in their careers and avoid due punishment for their misdemeanors.
• Fidelity to his own spirituality was always his, but political preferment went to those who followed the dictates of self-interested prudence.
• Balderston published nothing and received no preferment except for a canonry at peterborough in 1681: he was buried in the cathedral there.
• As we have already noted, wealth alone, no matter how it was acquired, could not buy official preferment.

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