From 1780 to 1834 he held the lucrative sinecure of teller of the Exchequer. |
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A governorship was a lucrative and prestigious position, but it was not a sinecure. |
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The Lord Privy Seal or Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal is one of the traditional sinecure offices in the British Cabinet. |
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Unlike his brothers, he was a freelance artist with no churchly sinecure to guarantee him income. |
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Since you can't fire the current manager, ease him out by finding a cushy, better paying sinecure elsewhere. |
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The administration associated with setting up both as a company or a sole trading entity is no sinecure in today's world. |
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The problem is, he is demonstrably no intellectual of any great ability, he is ill-disciplined and looks to the academic sector for a comfortable sinecure. |
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The rectory continued, usually as a sinecure, until it was impropriated in 1546 to Christ Church, Oxford, and soon afterwards to the secular lords of Sudbury manor. |
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Their ancestors were originally used to attack otters in deep waters, no sinecure, flush badgers and hunt common vermin. |
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We all know that negotiating harmonising directives will be no sinecure with 25 Member States around the table. |
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To start with, it is no sinecure to find a client willing to embark on an insecure road. |
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Upon arriving in Da Nang, General Hieu felt immediately that he was assigned to a sinecure position. |
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Keeping track of all this is no sinecure, and that is why our system is also a mobile time clock. |
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In fact, the low-ish center of gravity, despite the considerable upper fairing, makes riding above 20kph a sinecure. |
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Unlike the Parliament, the Commission is not elected, but appointed by the member-states, and is frequently used as a sinecure for retired or has-been politicians. |
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That's one reason news of her appointment to a well-upholstered sinecure in state government comes as a surprise. |
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The job is often a sinecure offered to widely admired figures. |
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This was no sinecure, with maintenance an important part of the job, although there were many opportunities to derive profit. |
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This concise report but prolix shows that travel is not always a sinecure. |
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Derby had intended to replace Chelmsford once a vacancy in a suitable sinecure developed. |
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The office of Lord Privy Seal is a sinecure, though he is technically the Keeper of the Privy Seal. |
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Nonetheless, the job at NATO was far from a sinecure. |
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To build a worldwide population out of a genetic pool of approximately 500 mares and about a dozen stallions, and in the same time preserve its fertility, vitality and racial characteristics is certainly not a sinecure. |
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For several months Churchill served in the sinecure of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. |
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Wordsworth was by 1820 respectable and highly regarded, holding a government sinecure, but wrote relatively little. |
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On his return to Manitoba, he managed to obtain a sinecure through his political connections, and spent the rest of his career filling a series of undemanding patronage positions. |
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The Paymaster General Act 1782 ended the post as a lucrative sinecure. |
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However, by the time of World War II, politics, at least in the federal sphere, was no longer regarded as sinecure for well-intentioned part-timers. |
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His role, intended to be a sinecure, was taken seriously by Newton who went about trying combat the country's growing problems with counterfeiting. |
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John Gosden has a near 25 per cent strike record at Doncaster and the Newmarket trainer looks good for a double there today with Arctiid and Sinecure. |
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