- Look up
sinecure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
sinecure (/ˈsɪnɪkjʊər/ or /ˈsaɪnɪkjʊər/; from the
Latin sine, 'without', and cura, 'care') is an...
- "No
Sinecure" is a
short story by E. W. Hornung, and
features the
gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his
companion and biographer,
Bunny Manders. The story...
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until 1895.
While many of his
predecessors had
approached the
office as a
sinecure,
Roosevelt vigorously fought the
spoilsmen and
demanded enforcement of...
-
primarily contractual and it
became progressively more of a
functionless sinecure. The head of a
single regiment or demi-brigade
would be
called a 'mestre...
-
leaders of the
government departments,
though some
Cabinet positions are
sinecures to a
greater or
lesser degree (for
instance Chancellor of the
Duchy of...
- real
importance was very
different from
their rank: on the one hand,
sinecures and
supernumerary appointments allowed enjoying benefits without performing...
- and
Lyndon B. Johnson, respectively, and was
considered something of a
sinecure. Poet and
literary scholar Charles Olson, who
served as a
Democratic National...
- been any
appointments of
ministers without portfolio. A
similar but not
sinecural cabinet position, that of
Minister Adjunct (ministro adjunto), who does...
- for the last 30 years of his life.
These appointments were
intended as
sinecures, but
Newton took them seriously. He
retired from his
Cambridge duties...
- its
efficient functioning.
Under Charles II, the
councils became the
sinecures of
wealthy aristocrats despite attempts at reform.
Political commentators...
