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
The necessities of national authority tipped the scale, and the powers of legislation and government and the spoils of office tumbled, all together, into the freedman's ragged lap.
From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable
Kings, oligarchs, democrats and mob-leaders have without exception regarded power as the object to be attained because of the spoils of office.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
Finally, the same journal assured us that, beyond a handful of people who were interested in getting hold of the anticipated spoils of office, no one in the island cared about the matter.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
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 Frederic Austin Ogg
