(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.
Reward
Definition:
(v. t.) To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.
(n.) Regard; respect; consideration.
(n.) That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.
(n.) Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.
(n.) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.
Example Sentences:
(1) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(2) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(3) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(4) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(5) "The company and its shareholders have been handsomely rewarded for that."
(6) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
(7) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
(8) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
(9) The hypothesis that metabolic rate, as well as foraging and recruiting activities, depend on the motivational state of the foraging bee determined by the reward at the food source is discussed.
(10) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
(11) Six other rats were rewarded only if their sequence of left and right responses in the current trial differed from each of the previous five trials.
(12) Cats were trained to press a lever for 0.5--1.0 ml of milk reward both in the presence and absence of ambient light.
(13) He is 100% committed in every training session and that is why I rewarded him with the chance to play.
(14) As a result existing job definitions and traditional forms of organization are being challenged and attempts made to restructure work so that it becomes meaningful and rewarding in the fullest sense, to the individual, to the enterprise, and to society.
(15) Since these tumors are often multiple and small, angiography is not very rewarding.
(16) The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life.
(17) The collaborative approach focused on rewards of behavioral change and minimized attention to prevention of negative behaviors, while openly valuing input from the women who are potential health promoters in their own communities.
(18) Not only is there a great need, but it is a personally rewarding and satisfactory experience.
(19) The glutamatergic mechanisms of neostriatum and nucleus accumbens septi play a minor role in attenuation of tegmental self-stimulation with droperidol, fluphenazine, trifluoperazine and clozapine but these mechanisms seem to be responsible for the suppression of "reward" phenomenon with haloperidol, thioridazine and aminazine.
(20) Free money offers The Halifax's £100 cash is available to people who switch to its Reward current account.