emolument
Example Sentences
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Article II, Section 1 and Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution prohibit the president in particular and public officials in general from receiving any emolument from domestic or foreign sources while in office.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2024
District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan rejected the DOJ’s narrow interpretation of what constitutes an emolument as “unpersuasive and inconsistent.”
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2019
The third judge on the panel, A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr., focused on what constitutes an illegal emolument.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2019
The foreign emolument prohibition covers anything of value from a foreign government.
From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2018
They fall on to the floor, and are sprinkled with salt water, and are again smelted with ore and litharge, and become an emolument to the proprietors.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
