Sentence examples for general gratitude from inspiring English sources

And yet the Justices' chilly response to Dreeben's argument suggests that, at this point, they're not interested in policing the line between "general gratitude" and quid-pro-quo corruption.

The second was more subtle, that the tipper "stood to benefit from the group's general gratitude for his largess" so that "it makes him one of the guys, they're all kind of impressed".

By Jonathan Alter April 3, 2014 Justice John Roberts, in his decision for the majority in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, said that there was a difference between the "quid pro quo corruption" of someone buying off a politician and "the general gratitude a candidate may feel toward those who support him or his allies, or the political access such support may afford".

The irony is that, as Dreeben pointed out to the Court, that phrase was actually meant to distinguish a politician's legitimate feelings of "general gratitude," as the Court put it in a 2013 case, from the impermissible act of swapping a political favor for money.

You have to be very, very cynical if after reading a few of her interviews or following Dunham on Twitter, a general gratitude that she exists does not warm your dark little heart.

In essence, McDonnell's argument is that all the gifts from Williams were legal, that such gifts merely engendered a "general gratitude" toward Williams and Star Scientific, rather than an explicit quid pro quo.

Thus, giving a gift or tip to a civil servant out of general friendship or gratitude and without an intent to influence his official behaviour is not punishable as bribery, though it may be prohibited under other legislation limiting corrupt practices.

Welcomed by warm applause from his staff, the new Secretary-General expressed his gratitude and stressed the urgent need to address a host of international crises.

Nor was there much in the way of sentimental gratitude for General Pershing's doughboys.

Despite his general unpleasantness, Mr Burns' gratitude to Marge is both welcome and unexpected.

We like to think this is a general score for the gratitude lovers, since the results found that people who express thankfulness felt happier with their lives.