By midwinter these intraband tensions were exacerbated as Big Road's own young men reacted suspiciously to their leader's preferment. |
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His aristocratic and clerical connections ensured his rapid preferment, but he was only a minor pluralist. |
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Colleagues vie with each other for preferment, yet must closely collaborate to fend off competition from without. |
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Others are discommoded because a constituency colleague has won preferment. |
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It doth also portend in some genitures sudden preferment, but an unlucky end thereof. |
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The most credible left wing candidates for succession or preferment would not change much of the last manifesto. |
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Courtenay's aristocratic connections carried him rapidly up the ladder of preferment. |
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The appointment was the officer's last posting, offering no prospect of promotion or preferment thereafter. |
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We cannot function as a country if there is politically and legally sanctioned preferment for one group. |
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I think they are more in touch with the part of their organisation that will provide them with preferment in their party. |
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It spread rapidly, to the detriment of Spanish, because it was the new language of government, preferment, and education. |
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Seats on committees were handed out by party whips as a watery consolation to backbenchers rejected for preferment. |
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His literary career, combined with his reputation for eccentricity, dandyism, and a love of dancing and theatre, prevented his preferment in the Church. |
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Although he had previously opposed royal policies, he was a believer in firm government and accepted preferment in order to uphold the king's power. |
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He secured all kinds of preferment from local cadres, and even several marriage proposals from attractive and ambitious young ladies, before his exposure. |
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But you may be on your way to preferment in the new Administration. |
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Endorsements are traded for preferment in future shadow cabinet appointments or favour in elections to select committees. |
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But it is also a response to coalition government, which has diminished opportunities for preferment among the governing Tories. |
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That Lord Strathclyde had been just as perfidious did not prevent his preferment. |
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This is a salutary example for backbenchers, most of whom spend more time grumbling about their lack of preferment than mastering hard policy. |
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I hereby consent to the preferment of this indictment pursuant to section 577 of the Criminal Code. |
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Patronage is broadly defined as appointments, contracts and other measurable forms of preferment. |
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Aboriginal society is awash with politics, the politics of preferment. |
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This is why the public sector needs to be above preferment and dealism. |
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Procurement policy, which prohibits preferment for local contractors and workers, is stoking up more and more resentment of the EU and its inflexible regime. |
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In unusual circumstances involving a significant public interest, the Assistant Deputy Attorney General may recommend that the Attorney General consent to the preferment of the indictment personally. |
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Mr Qarase favours preferment programmes for indigenous Fijians, the transfer of state lands to native landowners and the cancellation of compensation to evicted Indian sugarcane farmers. |
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Chinese and Indians, for the most part, grudgingly accept the government's various preferment schemes for the Malay majority as the price they must pay for stability and security. |
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The preferment design passes different stades. |
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Other countries allow a woman's marriage to be arranged for payment or preferment and in others women's poverty forces them to marry foreign nationals for financial security. |
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Put at the disposition of our customers, all our knowledge and technical means to conceive, make, assembling and deliver in timely fashion a preferment and quality tooling. |
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He could flatter with the best of them occasionally but he was never a careerist, a brown-noser, a systematic butterer-up of those who could get him preferment. |
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I know some who wittingly have drawne both profit and preferment from cuckoldrie, the only name whereof is so yrksome and bail-ful to so many men. |
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A few months later, he wrote the music for D'Urfey's play, The Fool's Preferment. |
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