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stipendiary
adjective
Receiving a stipend
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"We held an inquiry into the incident and considered the improper conduct of Mr Gibbons," Robert Earnshaw, the stipendiary steward, said.
That trend means heavier reliance on stipendiary (paid) magistrates, and threatens to end a voluntary tradition dating back to 1195 .We used to recruit heavily from the nationalised industries, and public services like health and education".
There are now more than 3,000 of them out of a total of 17,000, representing one in five stipendiary (paid) clergy and over half the "self-supporting" ones.
First, it used visible, preventive patrols; second, officers were salaried rather than stipendiary, and they were prohibited from taking fees.
Although they brought investigative skills to the police, they also brought the bane of stipendiary police corruption.
When communities began paying private citizens for the capture and conviction of thieves, a standard set of fees was established, and a "stipendiary" police system evolved.
The stipendiary system was supported by a legal system that decreed draconian punishments for crimes that would be considered petty by contemporary standards; capital punishment and serious mutilation were prescribed for almost every conceivable offense.
The United States inherited England's Anglo-Saxon common law and its system of social obligation, sheriffs, constables, watchmen, and stipendiary justice.
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She is a non-stipendiary priest at St Martin-in-the-Fields, where she is about to be appointed lecturer in inclusive theology.
Having been ordained as a priest in 1979, he became a non-stipendiary minister at Great Tew, near Oxford (1987-90), and then minister to a congregation in Fife, Scotland (1990-93) where hadhad followed his second wife, Rosa Beddington, as she pursued an illustrious scientific career.
[Racing] has ultimately got to rely on the vigilance and expertise of local stewards and their stipendiaries, who all too often – especially in Britain – turn a blind eye, or actually seem blind, to non-triers".
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