Sentence examples for stake clerk from inspiring English sources
In the 1920s, local stake clerks still performed the extensive record-keeping and reporting duties that are now done centrally at the LDS Church's headquarters in Salt Lake City; consequently, the position of stake clerk was essentially a part-time job, and those called to the position received a $50 per month salary.
Democrats these days speak with a certain respectful awe about the persistence, ferocity and scope of the Republican Party's mobilization, citing, for example, how local party workers at one point staked out virtually every court clerk's office to act as an early warning system for surprise motions or orders.
Nor did the court clerk think to inform the man whose life was at stake.
Cari Lynn, a young writer who spent two years as a clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, finds a world populated by larger-than-life characters, high-stakes risk-taking, and excess in all its forms.
"Few justices write broadly or stake out new terrain in their first terms," said Richard H. Pildes, a law professor at New York University who served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall.
The clerk muttered something.
