preferments

For what is so unmeaning as to take delight in many vain things, such as preferments, glory, magnificent buildings, clothing and adornment of the body, and not to take an extreme delight in a soul endued with virtue, in such a soul as can either love or (so to speak) love in return? for there is nothing more delightful than the repayment of kindness and the interchange of devotedness and good offices.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome Various 1887

In the annals of all award ceremonies, there are infinite examples of preposterous preferments – and Spoty is no different.

Women should be happy they have failed the Sports Personality test | Marina Hyde 2011

All Incomes would be taxed equally, without need of tax credits; elements which are nothing but preferments under any evaluation.

Libertarian Redistribution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Buckley and the early National Review conservatives went too far in hoping that such discreet preferments would suffice to end Jim Crow.

Civil Rights and the Conservative Movement 2008

I experimented with faster fermentation, and used either/or of the two preferments.

You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » Gooooooooaaaal! 2006

In Trollope's Barchester Towers, IMO his best & funniest novel, Dr. Stanhope gets several lucrative Church preferments and moves to Italy...for years.

Barack Obama at the University of Chicago Law School. Ann Althouse 2008

In one moment he imagined himself displaying the royal banner from the reconquered Castle of Edinburgh, detaching assistance to a monarch whose crown depended upon his success, and receiving in requital all the advantages and preferments which could be heaped upon him whom a king delighteth to honour.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

Further preferments and embassies fell to his lot, till in 1522 he was appointed Bishop of London by papal provision.

Archive 2008-06-15 de Brantigny........................ 2008

Further preferments and embassies fell to his lot, till in 1522 he was appointed Bishop of London by papal provision.

Cuthburt Tunstall de Brantigny........................ 2008

Covetousness, and ambition of little gains, or preferments, is dishonourable.

Leviathan 2007