preferment in a sentence

Examples

1. This preferment had the effect of vacating his Parliamentary seat.
2. This placed him in a good position for future preferment and appointments.
3. He declined preferment to the much wealthier See of Exeter.
4. Ogilvie held some clerical preferment while still fellow and tutor of Balliol.
5. Having taken orders in the English church, he had rapid preferment.
6. On his appointment Benson declared his resolution to accept no higher preferment.
7. Hobhouse worked his parish with zeal and declined offers of better preferment.
8. He received these preferments through a relative, Humphrey Wharton.
9. Another of his preferments was Thornton-le-Moors.
10. About the same period he lost all his other preferments.