Sentence examples for callings from inspiring English sources

The actions of trespass and disseisin (dispossession; see adverse possession) had Roman analogies, as did the liabilities of those following the so-called "common callings" of innkeeper, carrier of goods, and stable keeper.

The two callings are inseparable, the calling to "prayer and righteous action", as Protestant martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it, writing from his prison cell in 1944.

Luther had emphasized the secular callings instead of the monastic, which in the Middle Ages alone had been called a vocation.

In part it was because he was "constantly being distracted by these low callings, such as journalism," explains Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist's management editor and Schumpeter columnist, in this interview.

He criticises scientific eminences, however fine their intentions, for failing to take seriously enough a fundamental question: what is the collective good that we want scientific inquiry to promote Mr Kitcher has no time for what he treats as the theology of science: the exalted view that science transcends other callings and can best be guided from within.

To become a cog in such a mighty machine was considered one of life's highest callings.

A 16th-century Swiss engraver, Jost Amman, treated trades and professions dispassionately, as did the 17th-century French engraver Abraham Bosse, although Bosse did create some lampoons on unpopular types and callings.

Farming being the only productive occupation, all other callings, especially that of the scholar, should be discouraged.

What if next time, such voices weren't invited to the table only as corpses — if their complexities were heard, say, before their callings-out could be taken for the cries of seagulls?

"I think these name-callings are not good".

At the same time, his figures maintain vestigial traces of subjectivity, in the thrust of a chin, the tilt of a hip, and the set of a shoulder callings to the heart.