Sentence examples for a strong vocation from inspiring English sources

Urban development, the work of planning and organising the city and territory, is characterised by a strong vocation to impose order.

For example, Somerville ([2006]) finds among elder care workers in Australia that though they did not originally intend to pursue this vocation, they became increasingly engaged with their work and developed a strong vocational identity over time.

Gerard Olivier had begun a career as a schoolmaster, but in his thirties he discovered a strong religious vocation and was ordained as a priest of the Church of England.

The HEL's priorities also include assisting and supporting patients' families; the institution has a strong social vocation and is rooted in the community.

He focused on studying philosophy and theology, but when his father died in 1785, he abandoned his career in the priesthood, for which he felt no strong vocation.

Linda Woodhead, professor of sociology of religion at Lancaster University, said May felt she had been called to lead the country, with a strong sense of vocation and destiny.

Then there is the long-term impact on the NHS of a demoralised group of doctors, stuck in dead-end jobs, and no longer feeling a strong sense of vocation.

Vocation of service was a strong reason for career choice by nursing and midwifery students, while economic and social status expectations seemed to be more powerful factors for medical students.

WS: So for you there's a strong sense of the vocation and the purity of the craft?

Although he did not feel called to be a Lutheran pastor, Hölderlin did have a strong sense of religious vocation; for him, being a poet meant exercising the priestly function of mediator between gods and humans.

In the three "well-performing" health posts, ANs expressed a stronger sense of vocation and valued their capacity to attend patients' needs.