Examples of spoils system in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The exam was created by the Rogers Act, which abolished the spoils system and transformed the Foreign Service into a professional organization with hiring and promotions based on merit. — Dave Seminara, WSJ, 2 May 2022 That’s a noble-sounding word, yet one that corrupts the notion of equality under the law by imposing a racial-spoils system favored by social-justice warriors. — Asra Q. Nomani, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022 Despite the nominal idealism of multiculturalism, this looks like a diversity spoils system, whose proliferating claimants will become impossible to satisfy. — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020 One of the last vestiges of the spoils system, cushy diplomatic posts routinely go to campaign patrons. — Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, 9 May 2021 The real history of Catholic justices on the Supreme Court is mostly a story of the happy irrelevance of their faith, except in the trivial way that religion has sometimes mattered in an interest-group spoils system. — Matthew J. Franck, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020 But Jackson, who was in from 1829 to 1837, really institutionalized postal patronage with his spoils system. — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020 And the President appears to have brought back Jackson’s spoils system. — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020 That world was one of astonishing corruption: Political organizations such as Tammany Hall routinely fleeced taxpayers of millions, and the spoils system was in full swing. — John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017 See More

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