“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.”

“The man who was not a sinecurist or a peculator was pretty sure to be a profligate or a gambler.”

“Industry had always been besieged by insecurities and sinecurism and Department A was not the exception.”

“The poorest countries in the rurally protected cartel will be helped out of the mire of previously accepted Socialistic sinecurism.”

“Also, cleaning up their own corruption, waste and sinecurism would free unions to challenge the hegemony of the giant corporations over American society.”

“Examples abound of cosy sinecures being parcelled out to those who have served in constitutional posts.”

“Doctors, nurses and teachers in the productive public sector have had their pension rights compromised by the mushrooming of public sinecures.”

“The only new hires that diversity initiatives generate are in college administrations, already overloaded with sinecures.”