How to Use emolument in a Sentence

emolument

noun

• No one knows, because no court has ever made a final emoluments clause judgment.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Even the emoluments clause, little more than a sentence fragment, gets more notice nowadays.
  — James W. Lucas, National Review, 8 Dec. 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
• Nobody would be raking him over the emoluments coals for owning a hotel in Washington.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
• There remains disagreement between the two sides about what constitutes an emolument.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Although the emoluments clause has a complex history, the request by the lawmakers is rather simple.
  — Tom Hamburger and Karen Tumulty, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2017
• Trump needs to immediately divest from his businesses and comply with the emoluments clause.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 6 Jan. 2020
• The emoluments clause bars the president from receiving gifts and payments from foreign governments.
  — The Editorial Board, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2017
• 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
• Democrats have called it an unacceptable gift from a foreign government that is barred by the Constitution, as what is called an emolument.
  — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 8 July 2026
• Jeff Stein and Libby Nelson explained the emoluments issue in much more detail for Vox.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Some critics say the payments may violate a provision of the Constitution known as the domestic emoluments clause.
  — Cristina Alesci, CNN, 14 Mar. 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 question of whether the president's company can profit directly from the government is raised in an emoluments lawsuit that was filed by an ethics watchdog group in January.
  — Drew Harwell and Amy Brittain, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• In legal filings, the Justice Department has argued that courts do not have the authority to enforce the emoluments provisions.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2018
• At issue is the meaning of the emolument clause of the Constitution in Article I, Section 9.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
• There is, of course, the issue of the emoluments clause in the Constitution, which prohibits the president from accepting gifts or payment from foreign officials and government.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 20 Jan. 2017
• An attorney for the Democrats told the court Monday that the president was required to receive consent from Congress before accepting emoluments.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• In dissent, Judge John Walker said the courts have never clearly defined the Constitution's emoluments clauses.
  — Pete Williams, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2019