The preferment went to the younger candidate. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
preferment of charges. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He got "preferment" as he calls it, and a cure of souls at Margate. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference
For although a Welsh bishopric often led to an English one, a change from Exeter to St. Asaph could hardly have been "preferment" in the ordinary sense. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Too often people with minds of their own are sidelined or don't get the preferment which is doled out to the robots and those who obey the whips 'every demand. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
"Honors and offices of preferment are not plentiful.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
He was extraordinarily ambitious for public preferment. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
He stood strongly for merit as the basis for preferment. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
Vague ideas of favour and preferment haunted their brains. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
England in 1247 in the hope of obtaining court preferment. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
English allegiance, with an offer of great preferment in the Romish. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He has served H.M. faithfully being encouraged by hopes of preferment. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Steventon was not the only preferment in the neighbourhood that George. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Thus preferment at last stumbles on him, because he is still in the way. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Captain-Lieutenant; but that I look upon as a step to higher preferment. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
The preferment, however, did not spoil him; he looked upon it as a call to duty. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
But popular and deserving as Van Buren was Ambrose Spencer opposed his preferment. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
A sign of benevolence, authority, and progress; in cope and mitre, preferment and honour. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
He died shortly after this last preferment at Croydon, Surrey, where he was buried on the 10th of June 1552. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
In society, in business, and in politics, devotion to treason is the test of merit, the passport to preferment. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
Even this limited chance at occupational preferment was exceptional for black airmen in the Tactical Air Command. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
In that day, as in this, the office of lieutenant-governor was not necessarily a stepping stone to higher preferment. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Thompson's love for the judiciary give way to political preferment, and then Martin Van Buren defeated him for governor. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
After his preferment such bold plans of operation were introduced to the council, as were calculated at once to rouze the. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
He had already served one term in the Legislature and one in Congress, and was destined to receive other honourable preferment. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
By their wisdom and justice they have arrived at an high pitch of preferment, and stand distinguished by great and small medals. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
The elegant preacher, with fair prospects of preferment, could not bring himself openly to espouse the quarrel of oppressed truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
William Cook, who owed his preferment to the General's particular friendship and generosity, and who, on pretence of sickness, had left. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
They are men whose preferment does us a great deal of wrong, and when they are down, we may laugh at them without breach of good-nature. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Is a fellow newly great and newly proud; one that hath put himself into another face upon his preferment, for his own was not bred to it. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Here is who: People who make their living by Balkanizing America into elbow-throwing grievance groups clamoring for government preferment. From Wordnik.com. [DROPPING THE 'ONE DROP' RULE] Reference
I feel rather indignant that any possible objection should be raised against so valuable a piece of preferment, so delightful a situation!. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
A ponderous man he is, and substantial, for his weight is commonly extraordinary, and in his preferment nothing rises so much as his belly. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Who beleueth there is no second person, that desireth better to acquite the goodnes and preferment which I haue receyued of your Lordship, then. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
He is one that if fortune equal his worth puts a luster in all preferment; but if otherwise he be too much crossed, turns desperately melancholy, and scorns mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Thousands go into the study of law, not so much for the sake of the profession, as for the sake of the advantages it is supposed to give them for political preferment. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
And indeed, to nothing else could it be ascribed, as a place at that board was a sure way to preferment, and attended with great privileges, and a considerable salary. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
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