Sentence examples for Respectable occupation from inspiring English sources

Having become accepted as a respectable occupation within Iran nursing has now turned its attention to professional respectability.

Delany calls this "a circumstance very grievous to her," perhaps because professional singing was not an entirely respectable occupation at the time.

She's glad to have been taught table manners at home, and to be able to say, when Ernest Morrison asks her what her father does, "He's a wool merchant", which sounds a respectable occupation.

Published in 1847, Anne Brontë's first novel has a documentary quality, being based on her experiences of working as a governess (at the time the only respectable occupation available to unmarried women of reduced circumstances).

It's a respectable occupation with benefits.

So it's kind of crazy to us that it's still not recognized as a respectable occupation.

"I'd like to do people who are well known, even people who are involved in perfectly respectable occupations".

Usually encountering less discrimination in baseball (as well as in other venues of commercial entertainment) than they did in the more "respectable" occupations, in the 19th century Irish and German Americans were so conspicuous in professional baseball that some observers wondered if they had a special capacity for playing the game.

However, many East Enders worked in lowly but respectable occupations such as carters, porters and costermongers.

Many of them have gone on to become doctors, lawyers, educators, and other respectable occupations, but they were just raised unaware of the definition of racism.

As Wollstonecraft scholar Virginia Sapiro points out in her description of Mary, the novel anticipates many of the themes that would come to dominate Wollstonecraft's later writings, such as her concern with the "slavery of marriage" and the absence of any respectable occupations for women.