preferment

• For the preferment, i.e., firm starter, I used half whole wheat, half bread flour. —  The Fresh Loaf
• Too often people with minds of their own are sidelined or don't get the preferment which is doled out to the robots and those who obey the whips 'every demand. —  British Blogs
• Balls may yearn and scheme for the preferment, but stocks in Balls are sliding this week, thanks to allegations about his centrality in Damian McBride's dirty tricks operations.
• Hence there was no chance of a rush for the preferment, and the bishop would be grateful for any intimation of a willing martyr. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
• Milman's "History of the Jews" did not prevent his preferment, as he was promoted from the vicarage of St. Mary's, Reading, to the rectorship of St. Margaret's, Westminster, and a canonry in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter; after which, in 1849, he was made Dean of St. Paul's CHAPTER XXVIII MOORE'S "LIFE OF BYRON In 1827 or 1828 Mr. Hanson, the late Lord Byron's solicitor, wrote to Murray, enquiring, on behalf of the executors, whether he would be willing to dispose of his interest in the first five cantos of "Don Juan." —  A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843

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