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How to use preferment in a sentence

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By midwinter these intraband tensions were exacerbated as Big Road's own young men reacted suspiciously to their leader's preferment.
His aristocratic and clerical connections ensured his rapid preferment, but he was only a minor pluralist.
Colleagues vie with each other for preferment, yet must closely collaborate to fend off competition from without.
Others are discommoded because a constituency colleague has won preferment.
It doth also portend in some genitures sudden preferment, but an unlucky end thereof.
The most credible left wing candidates for succession or preferment would not change much of the last manifesto.
Courtenay's aristocratic connections carried him rapidly up the ladder of preferment.
The appointment was the officer's last posting, offering no prospect of promotion or preferment thereafter.
We cannot function as a country if there is politically and legally sanctioned preferment for one group.
I think they are more in touch with the part of their organisation that will provide them with preferment in their party.
It spread rapidly, to the detriment of Spanish, because it was the new language of government, preferment, and education.
Seats on committees were handed out by party whips as a watery consolation to backbenchers rejected for preferment.
His literary career, combined with his reputation for eccentricity, dandyism, and a love of dancing and theatre, prevented his preferment in the Church.
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.
He secured all kinds of preferment from local cadres, and even several marriage proposals from attractive and ambitious young ladies, before his exposure.
But you may be on your way to preferment in the new Administration.
Endorsements are traded for preferment in future shadow cabinet appointments or favour in elections to select committees.
But it is also a response to coalition government, which has diminished opportunities for preferment among the governing Tories.
That Lord Strathclyde had been just as perfidious did not prevent his preferment.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
It is the only standard of advancement, and there is no other instrument of preferment.
But was it any special preferment for the great-grandson of Edward the Fourth?
If so, all holders of preferment in the University should make as quiet an exit as they can.
However, you are now in the high road to preferment, so we will not be dull.
Why did you recommend him to his superiors for preferment on the next vacancy?
But Lee could only see in it a struggle for personal favor and preferment.
So the most attractive women will compete for your preferment.
Practice as an advocate, and push your way to insular preferment?
Gold was the only passkey to justice, to preferment, or to power.
But he had resolved to refuse any appointment, any preferment.
Which is an Art restored, and of my preferment to your Seruice.
Usually they are lawyers who have won preferment and emolument.
His first preferment was the lectureship of West-Ham and Bow.
Such expressions of anxieties about the reach of monarchal authority and preferment can be briefly contextualized by a consideration of Hall's political investments.
And I do not think it of light importance that he should have attentive and conciliatory manner towards everybody, especially towards those to whom he owes his preferment.
No money and no preferment would have drawn Creighton from his work on the Indian Survey, but deep in his heart also lay the ambition to write 'F R S' after his name.
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