This saving was, in fact, fatal to the success of Springer's proposal, since it meant the extinction of so many sinecures bestowed through congressional favor.
Morrison at once came to the rescue of the endangered sinecures and argued that even although these committees had been inactive in the past they "constituted the eyes, the ears, and the hands of the House.
Other Speakers in the past were remunerated by the gift of Government appointments or sinecures conferred upon them by the Crown.
Archbishops purchased theirsinecures and in turn compensated themselves by selling minor benefices to their subordinates.
The sinecures and benefices of the Church offered the same temptations to money-making and to questionable methods that our civil offices do to-day to the dishonest and unscrupulous office-holders.
It may be selling sinecures and captaincies in a year or two, and putting another shilling in the pound upon land.
His sick-room was crowded with courtiers and sycophants, and he was selling sinecures up to the day of his death.
At the time when Chaucer was given his controllership, offices in the customs seem to have been used regularly as sinecures for the esquires.
Dioceses and benefices were to be freely consolidated, clerical sinecures were to cease, and the more scandalous abuses of the Irish Church were to be redressed.
But inasmuch as sinecures had been largely given to persons who had held public offices of business, it was thought necessary to institute pensions to an amount not exceeding one-half of the reduction.
Two of these comfortable sinecures would victual the officers and men serving in all the ships in ordinary in Great Britain, viz.
No demagogue bipeds were permitted to fatten at the public crib--no droning sinecures were lounging under the mantle of government.
Walpole was a thorough Whig and a freethinker, so long, at least, as freethinking did not threaten danger to comfortable sinecures bestowed upon the sons of Whig ministers.
Consider these sinecures in one province alone, in Languedoc, a country with its own provincial assembly, which ought to provide some protection the taxpayer's purse.
He at the same time retrenched those rich sinecures which were, so to say, engrafted on the temporalities of the Papacy.
It is a reproach to any government to waste such an immensity of revenue in sinecures and nominal and unnecessary places and officers, and not allow even a decent livelihood to those on whom the labour falls.
Sinecures and standing armies and State churches are the strongholds of tyranny and superstition.
The 'hereditary possession of wealth' is one of the master-evils, and with sinecures will disappear the systems of entails and unequal distribution of inheritance.
They have squandered our revenues, multiplied sinecures and pensions, doubled salaries, given monopolies and encouraged jobs, and depressed the poor and industrious.
During the subsequent period the cry against sinecuresbecame more emphatic.
Extravagant salaries to favorites will be reduced, andsinecures and parasites will be cut off from the payrolls.
The people will not consent to pay the manager of a railroad line a salary six times as large as that of a cabinet officer, and provide at the same time sinecures for his sons, brothers, nephews and cousins.
The hand of taxation, the collection for the sinecures and pensions, must fix its nails even in them, who really appeared too miserable to be called by the name of people.
All the bishops had sinecures of the sort, and the Court contrived to keep a few vacant at times and pocket the revenues.
The system only held together by a frail structure of privileges, sinecures and commissions, that bound the nobility closer and closer to Versailles and left a yawning gulf between them and the people.
Those of this class who have to work are provided with sinecures at state expense.
But the pensions for abolished sinecures are the most flagrant.
It would be a commencement of sinecures in the Military Department.
I am willing to pay him a full and liberal allowance for all the services he renders; but I do not think we are authorized to institute sinecures for any man.
The same writer urges the need of a tax on sinecures and pensions, and finally begs Pitt for a place for life, devolving on his son.
The reign of pensions and sinecures is at an end, and a commission in the Excise or customs, the summet of my hopes, would give me bread at the expence of leisure and liberty.
There were enough political partisans to absorb all the comfortable sinecures to be had; and such money as was still spent upon literature, was given in return for services equally degrading to giver and receiver.
Considering that such men as Horace Walpole and his like were enjoying sinecures of more than twice as many thousands for being their father's sons, the bounty does not strike one as excessively liberal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sinecures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
