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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alternatively, such an entry might mean a temporary absence, on Church business if not a foray in quest of preferment .
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By January 1989 nineteen of her twenty-one Cabinet ministers owed their first preferment to her.
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For others there may be a lack of preferment and other problems of staleness and complacency.
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His own preferment was not a little due to his discerning hospitality.
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Obvious answers first: he hopes for preferment .
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Renewed prospects opened up for preferment in Ireland.
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Then an extraordinary chance gave the barber's son the connections which he needed for preferment .
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Western gunfights were alcohol-related, or else involved battles over gambling, prostitution, or political preferment .