Sentence examples for a sort of occupation from inspiring English sources
His father found him a sort of occupation: he was appointed mayor of a village south of Turin and also became the administrator of extensive holdings in the vicinity belonging to his uncles.
These critics didn't only seek the widespread recognition of the directors they admired but (as Jean-Luc Godard told me in 2000) thought they were, in a way, prolonging the French Resistance "against a certain sort of occupation, in the cinema, by people who had no business being there".
More recently Lebanon is living through a different sort of occupation that could be perhaps more detrimental to the future of the country than all the previous occupations.
We sort of had a sort of a line to three other areas, sort of.
Chanpuru, simply a "mix," is an essential Okinawan preparation, a sort-of scramble also available here with wheat gluten and more Spam, that processed vestige of American military occupation.
Tanks had not previously been used against protesters, and the force of the assault suggested that the military planned some sort of occupation of the town.
In the name of national unity, the postwar French government ordered all documents linked to the treatment of Jews during the occupation destroyed, a sort of imposed national forgetting.
If θ n < 0, this suggests that natives obtain a sort of "wage penalty" for being in predominantly Hispanic/Mexican occupations.
It was always a daft argument: ask Florida who was in this "super-creative core" and he'd suggest all sorts of occupations that didn't sound especially groovy, such as IT support staff.
Whereas others, such as Ibbetson, considered caste to be best defined as based on occupation, he believed that changes in occupation within a community led to another instance of endogamy "being held by a sort of unconscious fiction to be equivalent to the difference of race, which is the true basis of the system".
