preferment

About the same period he lost all his other preferments.

He took orders, but seems to have held no preferment.

He retained both these preferments until his death in 1707.

He certainly didn't take it as any evidence of preferment.

Any hope that he might have had for preferment in the new government vanished.

His preferments were numerous, but for many years not very lucrative.

He retained his preferments under Elizabeth and died early in 1563.

Having taken orders in the English church, he had rapid preferment.

This placed him in a good position for future preferment and appointments.

In the past, ambitious young men have been known to use their bodies to gain preferment.

The next two callers were in need of inside guidance to political office or preferment.

It is not possible to be sure about all his preferments because of his common name.

Even in retirement, cardinals defend their preferments, and then some.

He had passed up endless preferments, a command of his own, to remain with her.

The same difference runs through all the inferior degrees of preferment in both.

But how does he justify any preferment at all?

He was deprived of these three preferments in 1559.

However, a volume of poems dedicated to the king brought him preferment.

He refused preferment when his party was in power.

In one scenario, groups use majority power or other forms of force to exact preferment for themselves.

Then an extraordinary chance gave the barber's son the connections which he needed for preferment.

Nor did I imagine for one second you've come sucking after preferment or special privilege.

A more important piece of preferment followed, but it was not obtained without intrigue.

Later his High Church opinions established him in preferment and position.

William White, for whom in 1662 he obtained preferment.