The gravity of the situation was aggravated for years by the jobbery and corruption of the men who had the fate of the country largely in their hands.
Jobbery and extravagance are unknown, and politics, as there is no money in it, has ceased to be a trade.
One can bear coldly the jobbery of enemies, but not that of friends, and to Adams this kind of jobbery seemed always infinitely worse than all the petty money bribes ever exploited by the newspapers.
There was a strong push made to get one laid down in Broadway, and corporation jobbery had nearly succeeded.
There is another evil which attends these frequent elections of the chief magistrate--namely, the enormous patronage at his disposal, and the mass of jobbery and corruption to which the exercise of it almost invariably leads.
He then plainly told Sandwich that he thought the Government owed him this, which had been granted in the noontide of jobbery to former admirals, as a compensation for what he had lost in the West Indies in 1762.
The Hospital was at that time a hotbed of the dirtiest conceivablejobbery and thieving of the lowest type of the eighteenth century.
One of the most successful pieces of jobbery stands to the credit of the year 1754, when the Tory sitting members, General Oglethorpe and Peter Burrell, were opposed by two Whigs, James More Molyneux and Philip Carteret Webb, a London lawyer.
For some time popular resentment against the feebleness and jobbery of the stadholderless government had been deep and strong.
In any case, whether the clergy, backed by Rome, elected their bishops, or whether the king and nobles made their profit out of the Church appointments, jobbery was the universal rule.
The melancholy history of the consequent dickering and dealing, jobbery and robbery, down to 1835, when the great Municipal Corporations Act swept it all away, may be read with profit by all Americans.
The "spoils system" has helped to sustain all manner of abominations, from grasping monopolies and civic jobbery down to political rum-shops.
A single act of Parliament may substitute a new law for an old one; but no one resolution or bill has a magical power to extinguish long habits of jobbery and corruption.
Jobbery is any scheme which aims to gain, not by the legitimate fruits of industry and enterprise, but by extorting from somebody a part of his product under guise of some pretended industrial undertaking.
Jobbery is the vice of plutocracy, and it is the especial form under which plutocracy corrupts a democratic and republican form of government.
The great effect of their twelve years' exile from power had been to teach the better men of the party to detest the old methods of parliamentary corruption and family jobbery which they had learnt from Walpole and Newcastle.
Unhappily, however, much of the old leaven of corruption still hung about the Whigs, and the section which represented it was just about to perpetrate the worst piece of jobbery which their party ever committed.
And the result of what has unquestionably been crooked jobbery at Ottawa is said to be that hundreds of prospectors and miners are moving out of the Yukon and into Alaska, where they say "there is fair play," and a man may have what he finds.
Grant's first term was just closing, and jobbery and fraud were rioting in every department of the government.
The first Democratic House of Representatives after the war was elected chiefly because of the exposure of the Credit Mobilier fraud and other disclosures of jobbery which resulted from my work.
But when all is said and done, the {342} outcry over jobbery in Ireland is absurd, for it is a fact that there is more jobbery in London in a month than in the whole of Ireland in a year.
This measure was opposed (as all such measures are opposed) on the ground that "it would lead to jobbery and extravagance.
But Tory politics and common-room scandal and jobbery apart, the University would appear to have slept the sleep of the unjust.
By such concession jobbery would be made impossible.
That I translate to mean that Ulster feels that the policy of the spoils to the victors would be adopted, and that jobbery in Nationalist and Catholic interests would be rampant.
Wallingford meant to sweep all this jobbery clean away!
Jobbery and abuse of patronage would be still further prevented by making the duties sufficiently heavy.
He had brought forward in 1780 a comprehensive scheme of economical reform, with the design of limiting the resources of jobbery and corruption which the crown was able to use to strengthen its own sinister influence in parliament.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jobbery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: diplomacy; graft; jobbing; politics
