How to Use emolument in a Sentence

emolument

noun
  • The case in Messitte’s court is one of three emoluments lawsuits against Trump.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2018
  • Trump hasn’t conceded the revenue amounts to an emolument and that’s an issue that still has to be settled.
    — Andrew M Harris, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2018
  • The attorneys general aren’t the first to sue Trump over emoluments.
    — Brian Witte, The Seattle Times, 13 June 2017
  • How could Bevin's stay at Trump's hotel violate the emoluments clause?
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Jeff Stein and Libby Nelson explained the emoluments issue in much more detail for Vox.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
  • At issue is the meaning of the emolument clause of the Constitution in Article I, Section 9.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
  • No one knows, because no court has ever made a final emoluments clause judgment.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Even the emoluments clause, little more than a sentence fragment, gets more notice nowadays.
    — James W. Lucas, National Review, 8 Dec. 2017
  • What is the extent of the emoluments received not just by his underlings but by the president himself and his family?
    — Kevin Baker, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
  • Two other emoluments clause lawsuits against President Trump are working their way through the courts.
    — Pete Williams, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Nobody would be raking him over the emoluments coals for owning a hotel in Washington.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
  • The emoluments clause has come up repeatedly since Trump took office.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The ruling is believed to be the first in 230 years interpreting what the constitutional framers meant by the emoluments clauses.
    — Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Although the emoluments clause has a complex history, the request by the lawmakers is rather simple.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 14 June 2017
  • The Trump era sometimes feels like a trip through obscure and rarely used mechanisms of federal power, ranging from the emoluments clause to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
    — Matt Ford, New Republic, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The Trump era sometimes feels like a trip through obscure and rarely used mechanisms of federal power, ranging from the emoluments clause to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
    — Matt Ford, New Republic, 7 Feb. 2018
  • In December, a federal judge in NY ruled that plaintiffs in two other emoluments suits lacked standing, so dismissed the case.
    — Katelyn Polantz, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
  • This suit was the first of three major lawsuits alleging Trump violated the emoluments clause.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Zephyr Teachout is now part of a legal team going after Trump for violating the emoluments clause, one of the many new vocabulary-builders the pros have taught us since the election.
    — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Zephyr Teachout is now part of a legal team going after Trump for violating the emoluments clause, one of the many new vocabulary-builders the pros have taught us since the election.
    — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The only issues to resolve are whether those payments are prohibited emoluments and if so what the remedy might be.
    — Frank Bowman, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017
  • This potential offense is broader than the emoluments clause.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The foreign emoluments clause is not just a technical requirement.
    — NBC News, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The judge in the future may have to decide what constitutes an emolument and how the constitutional provisions apply to the president.
    — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Advisers to the president have argued that the emoluments clause doesn't apply to business transactions like hotel room rentals.
    — Ben Popken, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The emoluments clause bars the president from receiving gifts and payments from foreign governments.
    — The Editorial Board, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2017
  • This flew in the face of the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clause, which forbids the president from accepting any money, through any means, from foreign governments.
    — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2019
  • There remains disagreement between the two sides about what constitutes an emolument.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Clearly, there were also going to be debates on whether the charges should include obstruction of justice and emoluments (the president using his office to profit).
    — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The congressional emoluments case in Washington was initiated last year by about 200 Democrats.
    — Ann E. Marimow, courant.com, 25 June 2019

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