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- noun Plural form of
sinecure .
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Examples
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The Senators are -- you guessed it -- "bipartisan," which means they belong to both political parties and reflect the majority views of neither.3 And once again we're told they're "courageous" for putting themselves in line for campaign contributions and cushy post-Senatorial sinecures.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Ministry of Truth: New Fronts in the War on Social Security RJ 2011
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Liberals understand that government funding for PBS and NPR has created sinecures that largely serve their political ends, and they'd love to do it again on the Web.
The FCC's Good Deed 2011
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Getting yourself set up in cushy sinecures on the boards of obscure charities with hidden agendas is back-breaking work.
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In short, intellectuals have seen themselves not simply as an elite—in the passive sense in which large landowners, rentiers, or holders of various sinecures might qualify as elites—but as an anointed elite, people with a mission to lead others in one way or another to better lives. . .
Notable & Quotable 2012
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Left behind in Greece were too many lazy public sector workers and do-nothing bureaucrats who owed their sinecures to political patronage.
Eric Margolis: Zorba - Less Dancing, More Work Eric Margolis 2011
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Billionaire Pete Peterson and the other foundations and think tank benefactors who might them sinecures after they retire?
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Wanna See a Real Ass Kicking (Itself)? Read the Dems' "Super Committee" Proposal RJ 2011
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Are liberals not focused as much on attaining this sinecures?
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But most national leaders elsewhere in Europe are leaning toward the soft comfort that a Fed-type monetary policy provides for politicians who don't want to tackle the hard and dangerous work—witness the unionized public workers taking to the streets to protect their sinecures—of budget control.
A Political Solution for the Euro? George Melloan 2011
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Billionaire Pete Peterson and the other foundations and think tank benefactors who might them sinecures after they retire?
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Wanna See a Real Ass Kicking (Itself)? Read the Dems' "Super Committee" Proposal RJ 2011
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Left behind in Greece were too many lazy public sector workers and do-nothing bureaucrats who owed their sinecures to political patronage.
Eric Margolis: Zorba - Less Dancing, More Work Eric Margolis 2011
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