Sentence examples for class vocation from inspiring English sources

"As queer black people we have been pushed to question everything about our multiple layers of identity -- race, gender, sexuality, class, vocation -- and then reconcile who we know ourselves to be with the identities our families and society at large have constructed for us," Parker explained to Black Enterprise.

It was the family vocation.

I'd paint what made him, not what destroyed him.' Coming near the novel's end, this declaration demonstrates with elegant subtlety the journey that has been made; Paul, a working-class student whose vocation has been born of a desperation to escape the northern industrial landscape of his youth for the beauty of art, is falteringly starting to paint what he witnesses as a Red Cross volunteer.

In the early years of the nineteenth century, fossil collecting became so popular among the upper classes that a whole new vocation sprang up.

Her vocation, as befitted her class and kind, was marriage.

But the Brooklyn diocese did allow a reporter to talk to its psychologist, Dr. Palumbo, and its director of vocations, the Rev. Kevin J. Sweeney, whose incoming classes of three to five seminarians each year make him one of the more successful vocation directors in the country.

The ERPA criteria are subdivided into classes [Criterion class (CC ], to facilitate a more detailed assessment of the vocation of the AUS to welcome new electrical infrastructures as explained in Table 2. Exclusion (E): areas in which any realization is precluded.

Born in 1956 into a working-class Irish family, Boyle grew up in Manchester contemplating the priesthood as a vocation.

Back in New York in 1946, a single modern dance class at the Martha Graham studio in New York convinced him of his vocation.

Mr. Tarplin was born in Atlanta on June 13 , 1941 and moved with his family to Detroit, where his mother enrolled him in piano classes before he picked up a guitar and found his vocation.

Page was a would-be actress, and there are great scenes showing her earnestly taking Method classes; she could have had Marilyn Monroe's career, if her vocation had not been in smut.