I want to make it quite clear that I shall never tolerate any kind of jobbery, nepotism or any influence directly or indirectly brought to bear upon me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloggers.Pakistan] Reference

Even complete nut-jobbery is fascinatingly entertaining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech] Reference

This kind of medicine will soon cure all cases of jobbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference

Both were statesmen of scrupulous honesty, who despised jobbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Dems have been elevating Tea Party whack-jobbery for months now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will the Dems' Tea Party strategy work?] Reference

This bane of political jobbery has not been confined to the libraries of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference

There are no politics among the Board of Commissioners; there is no jobbery in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876] Reference

In fact, your whole blog is one sarcastically phenomenal parody of right-wing whack-jobbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [3 things I’m not doing this weekend « XUP] Reference

The jobbery of the official party disgusted all earnest and unselfish minds amongst the youth of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics] Reference

The whole system of government tended to peculation and jobbery -- to the enrichment of worthless officials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada] Reference

There was a strong push made to get one laid down in Broadway, and corporation jobbery had nearly succeeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

In a few days the shares rose and were at a premium, simply through the jobbery to which Herzog lent himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

We reject all the manipulation and the political jobbery carried out by the United States before the Human Rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexican Newspaper Interviews Fidel Castro Part VI Examines Missile Crisis] Reference

Whatever jobbery is attempted in the selection of candidates for admission to the Academy, is soon corrected by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

This measure was opposed (as all such measures are opposed) on the ground that "it would lead to jobbery and extravagance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876] Reference

If you open a daily paper you find that its pages are entirely devoted to Government transactions and to political jobbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Bread] Reference

Freeling, on the other hand, while being no screener of jobbery and peculation, had not the strength of mind whereof jobbers and peculators do stand in dread.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference

It meant that Kelly, in his inevitable desire to defeat his enemy, would trade, combine, and descend to other underhand jobbery, which usually benefited the opposite party.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

They appear to have one object in view, and only one -- jobbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romany Rye] Reference

State political jobbery was at fault, because it had no headquarters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)] Reference

There may, and there very probably was, a great deal of jobbery going on in the dockyards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference

He did his very best to suppress the jobbery which had become a tradition in the officialism of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)] Reference

Here a wall is raised against incompetence, and against the jobbery under which incompetence would profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult of Incompetence] Reference

"There would be far less jobbery an 'corruption in government pawtronage," said Jamie Howison, the Newtown weaver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Hogarth's Will] Reference

There is no fear in them of waste, of misapplication of funds, of private jobbery, of ulterior and unavowed objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of Life and Other Sermons] Reference

Its bonding privilege was one of the most disgraceful bits of jobbery ever lobbied through a corrupt little legislature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters] Reference

But though the interest of the Minister is inconsistent with appalling jobbery, he will be inclined to mitigated jobbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Constitution] Reference

His Radical friends were denouncing placemen and jobbery, and Cobbett began to perceive what was at the bottom of the evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference

He knew at what houses it was inadvisable to introduce soap, and at what tables it would be bad form to denounce political jobbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green] Reference

Hugh was for free canonical election, with no more royal interference than was required to prevent jobbery and quicken responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference

It would imply a central commission, which would only, as was suggested, give rise to jobbery and take power out of the natural hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference

There was only one method whereby Pitt could have assured his marriage with Eleanor Eden, namely, by condescending to political jobbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference

It of course implies the existence of an administration capable of regulating a railway system, and placed above the influence of jobbery and corruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

Although he was talking of Scotland and made no reference to NI double jobbery, it must follow that Cameron will make up the NI parties 'minds for them on that score.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

For another instant let me take the assertion that my motive in this crusade is personal gain through stock-jobbery, and that I have no aim or end in view other than that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated] Reference

To a large portion of the people who frequent Washington or dwell where, the ultra fashion, the shoddy, the jobbery are as utterly distasteful as they would be in a refined New.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference