hardly a sinecure (=not a sinecure; no sinecure)
a sinecure, and consisted simply in a daily care and inspection.
He landed a sinecure as a consultant for the company.
The position was seen as a sinecure with little actual work involved.
She was given a sinecure in the marketing department.
The sinecure allowed him plenty of time to pursue his hobbies.
The sinecure came with a generous salary and benefits.
The sinecure was offered to him as a favor from a friend.
She accepted the sinecure knowing it would be an easy job.
The sinecure was created specifically for him due to his connections.
He treated the sinecure as a stepping stone to a more challenging role.
The sinecure allowed her to maintain a work-life balance.
He stood for a rotten borough and he took on a sinecure in government himself.
He condemned parliamentary sinecures and argued that too many ministers were in the pocket of the Crown.
In African countries such as Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda teaching is all too often a sinecure , not a vocation.
Life was not a task to him, but a sinecure.
And Prigozhin will go to some sort of weird sinecure in exile in Belarus.
So far as work went I enjoyed a complete sinecure; I had nothing to do but to walk about the valley, to eat, and to sleep.
The most sacred trusts are then considered as sinecures, because they were procured by interest, and only sought to enable a man to keep GOOD COMPANY.
By thus uniting their fortunes, living on good terms, and profiting by sinecures, the two families might occupy the hotel d'Aubrion with an income of over a hundred thousand francs.
Most of them were in business, it was true, and several were converting the heathen of China or America to a nebulous protestantism; but a few, he found, were working constructively at jobs that were neither sinecures nor routines.
hardly a sinecure (=not a sinecure; no sinecure)
a sinecure, and consisted simply in a daily care and inspection.
He landed a sinecure as a consultant for the company.
The position was seen as a sinecure with little actual work involved.
She was given a sinecure in the marketing department.
The sinecure allowed him plenty of time to pursue his hobbies.
The sinecure came with a generous salary and benefits.
The sinecure was offered to him as a favor from a friend.
She accepted the sinecure knowing it would be an easy job.
The sinecure was created specifically for him due to his connections.
He treated the sinecure as a stepping stone to a more challenging role.
The sinecure allowed her to maintain a work-life balance.
He stood for a rotten borough and he took on a sinecure in government himself.
He condemned parliamentary sinecures and argued that too many ministers were in the pocket of the Crown.
In African countries such as Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda teaching is all too often a sinecure , not a vocation.
Life was not a task to him, but a sinecure.
And Prigozhin will go to some sort of weird sinecure in exile in Belarus.
So far as work went I enjoyed a complete sinecure; I had nothing to do but to walk about the valley, to eat, and to sleep.
The most sacred trusts are then considered as sinecures, because they were procured by interest, and only sought to enable a man to keep GOOD COMPANY.
By thus uniting their fortunes, living on good terms, and profiting by sinecures, the two families might occupy the hotel d'Aubrion with an income of over a hundred thousand francs.
Most of them were in business, it was true, and several were converting the heathen of China or America to a nebulous protestantism; but a few, he found, were working constructively at jobs that were neither sinecures nor routines.
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