(n.) The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although federal ethics laws do not directly apply to the presidency, Trump risks a constitutional violation under the emoluments clause.
(2) The legal watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics filed a federal lawsuit against Trump shortly after his inauguration accusing the president of breaching the emoluments clause of the constitution, which prohibits receiving payments or gifts from foreign governments.
(3) Emolument said Goldman paid its managing directors well – at the top layer of investment bankers – but it appeared less generous than competitors for traders on the next rung down.
(4) While it is true that some rules on conflict of interest for executive branch employees do not apply to the president, Trump will be bound by bribery laws, disclosure requirements and a section of the US constitution known as the “emoluments clause” that bans elected officials from taking gifts from foreign governments.
(5) For some, it’s all about the money: there is a strong correlation between these course admission statistics and those put out by salary benchmarking website Emolument , which used data from 55,000 individuals to work out which degrees help their graduates get rich quick.
(6) In Trump’s Washington, we don’t need all those checks and balances, ethics lawyers and emolument clauses.
(7) That decision, given the Trump Organisation’s reliance on foreign governments to grant valuable trademark licences and permits, may in fact contravene the United States constitution’s prohibition on presidents receiving gifts or any “emolument” from foreign governments.
(8) However, if businesses in which he had a stake benefit from payments from foreign governments or foreign state-owned companies, he would risk violating the “ emoluments clause ” of the constitution.
(9) Ben Cardin, the Democratic senator for Maryland, proposed a Senate resolution that Pres Trump obey the emoluments clause of the constitution, which forbids bribery (Trump had refused to put his holdings in a blind trust).
(10) Robert Benson, chief executive of Emolument, said banks from continental Europe, such as France’s Société Générale and Crédit Agricole, had the problem of matching pay from their less lucrative home market with high wage demands in London.
(11) It’s just a different thing.” While it is true that some rules on conflict of interest for executive branch employees do not apply to the president, Trump will be bound by bribery laws, disclosure requirements and a section of the US constitution known as the “emoluments clause” that bans elected officials from taking gifts from foreign governments.
(12) That provision found in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the US constitution provides that “no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state”.
(13) The organisation intends to bring a legal challenge accusing the president of violating the US constitution’s emoluments clause by accepting payments from foreign governments at his hotels and other properties.
(14) Richard Painter, a chief ethics counsel to President George W Bush, said Trump must sell his businesses or risk violating the “emoluments clause”.
(15) Trump is, however, subject to the constitution’s emoluments clause, an anti-bribery provision that forbids the president from accepting “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State”.
(16) Other experts agree that the emoluments clause could impact Trump’s businesses.
(17) If Donald Trump’s business arrangements involve his receiving payments, directly or indirectly, from a foreign government or an entity it controls, that would violate the emoluments clause,” Clark said.
(18) But attention has fallen on the emoluments clause of the constitution, which bars public office holders from receiving payments from foreign government officials.
Pay
Definition:
(v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
(v. t.) To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
(v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
(v. t.) To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).
(v. t.) To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
(v. t.) To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
(v. i.) To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
(v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
(n.) Satisfaction; content.
(n.) An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(4) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(5) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(6) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(7) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
(8) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(9) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
(10) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(11) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(12) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(13) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
(14) A microdissection of the orbital nerves of the cat was made paying particular attention to the accessory ciliary ganglion.
(15) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
(16) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(17) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(18) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
(19) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(20) So fourth, we must tackle the issue of a relatively large number of officers kept on restricted duties, on full pay.