(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.
Stipend
Definition:
(n.) Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
(v. t.) To pay by settled wages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rule-abiding parents can get a monthly stipend, extra pension benefits when they are older, preferential hospital treatment, first choice for government jobs, extra land allowances and, in some case, free homes and a tonne of free water a month.
(2) For now, temporary carers receive rice, secondhand clothes for the children, toiletries and a small stipend, while regular financial help from the government and Unicef is being considered.
(3) Litvinenko also received a regular stipend from the oligarch Boris Berezovsky , his friend and patron, who had arranged his escape from Russia in October 2000.
(4) We know they’ve cut stipends to foreign fighters and many foreign fighters are in arrears on pay.” Hammond also delivered his strongest critique yet of Russia’s air campaign in Syria , accusing Moscow of deliberately carrying out strikes on schools and hospitals.
(5) The purpose of this study was to examine trends in providing specific benefits, namely, stipend, housing, meals, and uniform laundry, to students in full-time clinical education at the University of Michigan from 1967 to 1977.
(6) Ecomic pressures may force the physician on an Australian stipend to consider working outside his fellowhip or residency.
(7) At the time it pointed out that the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who has questioned Barclays executives appearing before the banking standards commission, receives only three-and-a-half times the average clergy stipend of £21,900.
(8) Some of these organizations provide a stipend for the relief worker.
(9) In addition, recognised refugees have only a matter of days to move out of reception centres once their applications are successful, at which time they stop receiving monthly stipends and risk becoming destitute.
(10) You might be able to share your access to an academic journal or pay a small stipend for someone’s internet hosting as a deposit for a future holiday.
(11) The material they publish was commissioned and funded not by them but by us, through government research grants and academic stipends.
(12) Fellowship stipend sources are much more diverse; federal training grants, professional fees, foundations, medical school funds, and research grants contribute significantly.
(13) While the Russian government has ordered deep cuts in its space and hi-tech programmes , Zimin’s Dynasty Foundation had just raised its annual budget to $8.6m to be allocated to research stipends, publishing, and outreach.
(14) Charlotte, standing calm and still in the middle of all the flap and pother – the Bennets should award her a special stipend just for advising Elizabeth not to be so bloody rude to Darcy every time she speaks to him (I paraphrase) – and gazing with a cool, appraising eye on her own and everyone else's best chance of the greatest happiness while everyone else's vision is either blinkered with pride, blurred by prejudice or occluded by simple stupidity (Lydia!
(15) This study demonstrates the significant benefits to both foster parents and the children in their care of providing enhanced services and stipends to foster parents.
(16) The judges said it was not merely an anomaly that Berlusconi was paying monthly stipends to witnesses testifying in a trial in which he was indirectly implicated.
(17) They have developed working business arrangements – the pirates pay a stipend to be left in peace.
(18) Coates joins 23 other MacArthur fellows who will receive a no-strings-attached stipend of $625,000, paid out over five years in quarterly installments.
(19) The original purpose of this survey was to obtain sufficient salary information on residency programs to assist us in evaluating our residents' annual stipend.
(20) Expect wheelchairs in Downing Street as the coalition does away with the long-established principle that people who have contributed their own national insurance in the past, and then become sick and disabled, should expect a modest stipend from the state in recognition of this.