They must make office-holding worth while by giving to the officeholders the power of effecting substantial public benefits.
To give such temporary officeholders a large measure of authority over their subordinates would mean in the long run that such authority would be used chiefly for political purposes.
So, in return for the passage of a new tobacco law, he assented to an act to keep officeholders out of the House.
Far-reaching though they were, Bacon's Laws did not include an act to prohibit officeholders from sitting in the Assembly.
Only the landowning and slaveholding aristocracy owed a nominal allegiance to the two parties whose active members were the officeholders or those who hoped to become officeholders.
Though he gave the officeholdersof Brazil an object-lesson in unblemished integrity, his actions were often harsh and arbitrary.
The pressure of Democrats for office was naturally strong, and although the civil service reformers got a few crumbs of comfort, the bald fact stood forth that within two years only about one third of the former officeholders remained.
In November, 1913, it was once more taken up and revised so as to extend the pardon to those who had participated in the negro insurrection, and to some former officeholders of the Gomez administration who had been indicted.
Before the enactment of the Interstate Commerce Act there was every year a wholesale distribution of railroad passes among public officeholders and other prominent politicians.
The influence of Federal officeholders should not be felt in the manipulation of political primary meetings and nominating conventions.
Officeholders are neither disfranchised nor forbidden the exercise of political privileges, but their privileges are not enlarged nor is their duty to party increased to pernicious activity by officeholding.
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
We have discussed a few of the methods whereby the nomination and election machinery might be improved; we must now go a step further and examine the means by which officeholders may be controlled.
Large amounts were also secured from officeholders who feared to incur the ill will of the party by refusing to contribute to the campaign fund.
Wherever it develops that officeholders no longer meet with the approval of the people, truly representative government is impossible unless some method of effective popular control is found.
It is also maintained that since the Recall is a threat, it encourages officeholders to be honest and efficient.
Appointment and promotion are upon the basis of merit, although as in the case of the Federal civil service, the standards for judging the character and capacity of individual officeholders have not yet been perfected.
The essential feature of this system, whether in local, state or National government, is that officeholders secure their positions on the basis of individual merit.
Very frequently, therefore, officeholders have secured their positions as the reward of party support, rather than because of merit.
Before long Jackson removed nearly one thousand officeholders and appointed political partisans in their places.
Congress also got rid of many other Federalist officeholders by repealing the Internal Revenue Act (p.
So he removed a few Federalist officeholders and appointed Republicans to their places.
To keep both workers and newspapers posted as to the policy of the administration, there was set up at Washington a partisan journal for which all officeholders were expected to subscribe.
In many states it was further required thatofficeholders should be Protestants, or at least Christians, or should believe in the existence of God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "officeholders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
