Sentence examples for emoluments in from inspiring English sources

(The Standard of Hong Kong notes that he will reap $1 million in "emoluments" in his new job, not to mention performance bonuses and stock options).

Although Congress passed the mechanism reducing emoluments in 1909, the procedure was named "Saxbe fix" after Senator William Saxbe, who was confirmed as Attorney General in 1973 after Congress reduced the office's salary to the level it had been before Saxbe's term commenced.

Costs such as personnel emoluments in a trial setting are usually pegged at competitive market prices, but in a real setting, and under a government programme, these costs are substantially reduced as government workers are often paid a much lower rate.

In addition, the emoluments clause in the U.S. Constitution prohibits elected officials from accepting benefits from foreign powers.

If he doesn't do this, some of them say, he will be in violation of the emoluments clause in the Constitution (Article 1, Section 9), which bars Presidents from taking payments of any kind from foreign states.

Since the moment he took office, Trump has almost certainly been in violation of the Emoluments Clause in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution.

But that's not the only Emoluments Clause in the Constitution.

There's more than one Emoluments Clause in the Constitution, however.

The "emoluments clause" in the Constitution broadly prohibits office holders, including the president, from accepting presents "from any King, Prince, or foreign State".

The Emoluments Clause in the Constitution prohibits any "person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States]" from accepting gifts or money from foreign entities in order to prevent a possible situation of bribery.

Another question overshadowing Trump's overseas holdings is whether any additional money spent by foreign governments to protect them would trigger the Emoluments Clause in the U.S. Constitution, which restricts members of the government from receiving gifts from foreign states.