Sentence examples for lucrative appointment from inspiring English sources

In 2009, a judge in Manhattan had a lucrative appointment to hand out: oversight of a diamond district building that was drifting into foreclosure.

Receiving a lucrative appointment as music master to Queen Charlotte and her children, he became a social as well as a musical success.

He was rewarded by the Police Federation with the lucrative appointment as their political spokesman and retained that job – apart from his time as a junior minister in Edward Heath's government – until 1988.

At the time Einstein, who had moved to Berlin four years earlier to take a lucrative appointment to the Prussian Academy of Sciences and become director of the newly formed Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics, was 38 years old and in the process of divorcing Mileva, presumably so that he could marry his cousin Elsa.

In recent years, Mr. Batra has received more than $360,000 worth of lucrative appointments that judges can hand out, and his conduct as court-appointed receiver of the Cypress Hills Cemetery prompted a state investigation into judicial patronage.

In exchange, Mr. Klein and his fellow members secured lucrative appointments and were seen as a potential swing-vote bloc.

The commission said some former judges have received an inordinate number of appointments and others have gotten extremely lucrative appointments shortly after retiring.

Justice Spodek said Mr. Cohn had listed some lawyers to be considered for referee jobs and others for possible receiverships, which are generally more lucrative appointments.

The committee should insist on hearing from both him and Mr. Christie, and it should inquire into other lucrative appointments made to former Justice Department insiders.

"Many of the recipients of multiple and lucrative appointments in guardianship cases had connections to judges, political parties or court-system personnel," it said, "raising concerns that they were selected based on factors other than merit".

The most lucrative appointments -- to the city's three-member Housing Authority Board -- were awarded to JoAnna Aniello, the mother of Anthony V. Carbonetti, who was the former mayor's chief of staff, and Earl Andrews Jr., whom Mr. Giuliani reappointed.