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Перевод: sinecure

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синекура

Тезаурус:

1. Milton remarked that this chair had hitherto been a sinecure, though it carried a salary of over 100 per annum and would "serve any gentleman especially a lawyer".
2. On occasion a member of parliament might be asked to obtain a sinecure, a nominal place which would provide income without the necessity of having to do anything to earn it.
3. He ended up staying two years, partly because he found out that the sinecure in Stirling had, to use an aikido expression, dissipated.
4. John Wallace, one of the magistrates of the burgh of Arbroath, explained his reasons for seeking a sinecure appointment worth 50 or so for his son, by emphasising his fear that "the lad will turn out but indifferently qualified for business otherways I should not give so much trouble in asking something for him
5. One way of evading restrictions was to find sinecure posts for good players; one man was given the job of checking the advertising posters for the club, though the most common trick was for club directors, who were often substantial employers, to find part-time or simply bogus jobs for which payment was made.
6. official post, often a sinecure, the nominee usually being appointed by the sovereign or the government.
7. Barnes railway bridge was a sinecure compared with the limbo of the Willesden Marshalling Yards.
8. It would not be an easy sinecure and the job specification called for someone not only with wide experience in the profession and a clear understanding of the issues at stake, but also a cool head and tough hide in the face of the increasing political and public interest in auditing.
9. Had he known that the sinecure into which he had expected to step was but a chimera, he would have opted for staying in the army which had, in fact, suited him.
10. This lucrative sinecure was owned from 1554 to 1723 by the Thurn-Taxis family.
11. The schoolmaster's appointment was at times treated as a sinecure for the vicar of Evenley, a Magdalen living.
12. In 1852 he relinquished his teaching duties on grounds of poor health and was appointed to the sinecure posts of director of the College, secretary and resident governor.
13. In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe, though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections; in the last twenty years of its life, when Gibbon was a member, it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State.