spoils of office

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The victor nowadays is denied 99% of the spoils of office, but he still has 100% of the responsibility for decision and action.

From Time Magazine Archive

Secession and empire or not, their hope, like his, is in the spoils of office; they are lean and desperate.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

While England needed to keep her gaze on Boulogne, the intriguers thought only of the death or lunacy of the King, the accession of the Prince and the apportionment of the spoils of office.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland

There will not be lacking the spoils of office and the plunder of the enemy to lull their discontent.

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames

Between 1877 and 1910 the Regeneradores and the Progressistas shared in rotation the spoils of office with such regularity that the two acquired popularly the nickname of the rotativos.

From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin