place-hunting

Bribery, corruption, and place-hunting are alleged against this body; but as these vices are largely developed in England, it would be bad taste to remark upon them, particularly as the most ardent correctors of abuses now reluctantly allow that they are inseparable from popular assemblies.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Among the effects of this shortage of senior officers was a lack of discipline among ambitious, place-hunting colonels.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Among the effects of this shortage of senior officers was a lack of discipline among ambitious, place-hunting colonels.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Among the effects of this shortage of senior officers was a lack of discipline among ambitious, place-hunting colonels.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Among the effects of this shortage of senior officers was a lack of discipline among ambitious, place-hunting colonels.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Against place-hunting, and everything savouring of trafficking with the government, the

Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various

The usual place-hunting letters from constituents, a petition from the Women's

The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald

Worship itself becomes only a more extended place-hunting, and man the walking dummy of society.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

The same writer attributes the glaring discrepancy between the figures which have just been quoted and the ratio of Catholics and Protestants in the population of Ireland to "a union of Protestant fanaticism and place-hunting greed."

Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell

In every bureaucracy we may observe place-hunting, a mania for promotion, and obsequiousness towards those upon whom promotion depends; there is arrogance towards inferiors and servility towards superiors.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916