As pope, he was not free from nepotism and simony, in controversy passionate, and in policy intriguing and faithless.
His nepotism was most shamelessly practised, and he increased his revenues by taxing the brothels of Rome.
He could indulge in nepotismonly to a limited extent, but he did in that direction what was possible.
His entrance upon this ecclesiastical dignity, however, did not lead him to give up his sensual and immoral course of life, and after his elevation to the papal chair he practised nepotism after the example of the Borgias and the Medicis.
The nepotism and extravagance of the popes had left an empty exchequer, which this sale of indulgences was intended to fill.
He studied law at Bologna, and after his uncle's election he was created successively bishop, cardinal and vice-chancellor of the church, an act of nepotism characteristic of the age.
The conclave believed he was strongly opposed to the nepotism then prevalent.
Long ago he had rebuked thenepotism of the Popes, but Pius had forgotten his epigrams.
The personal character of the Pope, the exactions which he laid upon the Romans for the profit of his favorites and his family, and his unblushing nepotism were the subjects of frequent satire.
American nepotism puts to shame the one practised in Europe.
Prelatic luxury was curtailed, brazen vice retired from public view, and the free exercise of papal nepotism was finally restrained by Pius V.
The familiar factors of peculation and nepotism had an important influence on these naval and military developments in China.
Nepotism in China is part and parcel of the family system, which is the palladium of the nation.
These two plagues - cronyism and nepotism - haunt public procurement.
A tsunami of destruction, a tidal wave of misappropriation, an orgy of crime and corruption and nepotism and cronyism swept across the unfortunate territories of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
In between sushi and sake they bemoaned and grieved over corruption and nepotism and cronyism ("I simply love their ethnic food, but they are so.
Cronyism and nepotism led to the legalized robbery of the assets of the state through bogus privatisation schemes.
With him nepotismassumed its most brutal and barbarous development, reflecting the character of its pontifical author, who was without the smallest ray of good.
At last, in 1471, twenty-one years before the discovery of America by Columbus, Sixtus the Fourth became Pope, and with him began that nepotismwhich soon became famous as a Roman institution.
Nepotism did not exist, and the word itself was unknown.
The latter pontiff gave to nepotism fulness of power when he resolved “to have no business with any one not dependent upon his house.
Alexander the Seventh, of the Chigi family, had about him five nephews and one brother, which a contemporary characterized as “nepotism all complete.
From a dropsical Nepotism swollen to elephantiasis, which nobody can defend, I pass to Gift-Taking, which with our President has assumed an unprecedented form.
Pray, Sir, what words would Jefferson use, if he were here to speak on the open and multifarious nepotism of our President?
Nepotism is already condemned by history, and most justly; for it is obviously a form of self-seeking, hostile to purity of government, and strangely out of place in a Republic.
These vacillations on the part of Leo have been slightly touched upon, in order to clear the ground for displaying his ambitious nepotism in its proper field,--the duchy of Urbino.
But a fatality seems to have attended most papal diplomacy: based upon nepotism or personal ambition, it was generally thwarted by its own fickleness or imbecility.
It is a lonely life, as the dread of an accusation of nepotismhas prevented any of the later popes from having any of their family with them, and etiquette always obliges them to dine, &c.
The alarming spirit of nepotismwhich Giovanna developed at a later day was, I fear, a growth from the encouragement we gave her charitable disposition.
In opposition, however, to this centralising policy, the nepotismintroduced by Sixtus IV.
His character stood so high that the reproach of nepotism was never raised by his promotion.
The nepotism of the cardinals and prelates has survived that of the Popes.
Louis Philippe had a numerous family, was avaricious to the last degree, and allowed avarice and nepotism to govern his policy, rather than the honour and interests of the great kingdom over which he presided.
Their state of secession from the Holy See arose largely out of the nepotism practised by the last Popes--a nepotism writers are too prone to overlook when charging Alexander with the same abuse.
We judge it--under the circumstances that Louis XI had surrendered it to the Church--to be a far more flagrant piece of nepotism than was Alexander's now.
Nepotism had characterized many previous pontificates; open paternity was to characterize his, for he was the first Pope who, in flagrant violation of canon law, acknowledged his children for his own.
The establishment of papal dominion, as we have seen, encouraged, if it did not necessitate, nepotism; and nepotism involved prodigality and dissipation.
Whatever effect nepotismof this character produced across the Alps, it served certain purposes in Italy.
The influence of nepotism on sub-infeudation, in the case of ecclesiastical fiefs, is too important to be passed over.
It was to guard against the nepotism of the heads of monastic houses that such a clause as this was occasionally inserted: Terras censuales non in feudum donet: nec faciat milites nisi in sacra veste Christi.
Nepotism nourishes even in democracies, and Henry, a Colonel at twenty-two and Lord-Deputy before he was thirty, was not the man to carry on the traditions of the Protector.
Moreover, he was a relative of the Governor's wife, and to some men, even in that day, nepotism was an offence.
The papacy was at that time changing to a political despotism, and nepotism was assuming the character which later was to give Cæsar Borgia all his ferocity.
It was probably the increasing sense of the untrustworthiness of political support, rather than nepotism in its ordinary sense, which led the Protector to rely more and more on the services of members of his own family.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nepotism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
