Question: Despite his quick climb up the legal ladder, Bailey has always found time to help out in causes he feels strongly about.
Bailey helping out the causes he cares about has caused him to not climb the legal ladder.

Answer: no

Question: It portrays the Medici clan led by Lorenzo the Magnificent in what is in fact an allegory of an ecumenical council with Pope Pius II in Florence.
Lorenzo the Magnificent was an enemy if the Medici clan.

Answer: no

Question: It did work for Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, a self-professed sex addict who rehabilitated himself politically after a drug conviction by declaring his powerlessness over drugs and sex, repenting, and entering a program.
Mayor Marion Barry admitted that he had an addiction to sex.

Answer:
yes