Sentence examples for my emoluments from inspiring English sources

No one, and certainly not John Adams, made a fortune serving the United States in the late 18th century: "All my emoluments as a member of Congress for four years," Adams observed in 1777, were "not... sufficient to pay a laboring man on a farm".

I for one would be willing to pay my children large cash emoluments long into their young adult years in exchange for their silence regarding the true social organization of our family.

"In my view, having studied the Emoluments Clause ever since 1978, it's always been clear to me that its language is deliberately very broad, that it covers any kind of payment, not just a gratuity or a gift, but an ordinary payment to a profit-making enterprise," Tribe said.

Nine months later, the emoluments issue has faded from view.

The emoluments clause was forged of their hard-won wisdom.

He preferred rising in his own profession to the emoluments of the civil service.

When Ashraf saw these emoluments, Darbyshire later recalled, 'her eyes lit up and her resistance crumbled'".

But for Trump the emoluments issue, so far, remains nothing but a small nuisance.

In the government's latest budget, about $30 million was set aside for "royal emoluments".

His global business empire creates ideal conditions for ongoing violations of the emoluments clause.

"I think that our emoluments case is going to be the most impactful of all".