Sentence examples for dedicated vocation from inspiring English sources

In the years between1894 and 1914, the pursuit of Egyptology shifted from the pleasant and leisurely avocation of the wealthy amateur to the serious and dedicated vocation of the professional.

Sandra Bell knows that being dedicated to your vocation can mean paying a price later in life.

In turn, those dedicated to this vocation succumb to affective labor that is exploited albeit, somewhat differently depending on the type of institution and the person.

Interview with Kwame Nkrumah, the first Prime Minister of the new African nation of Ghana; by vocation a revolutionary dedicated to the liberation of all Africa from colonial rule; and a world figure who symbolizes the entrance of the colored peoples onto the stage of world affairs.

From an early age the young Henson was a dedicated Christian and felt a vocation for the Anglican priesthood; his father's fundamentalist views were anathema, and left him with what Grimley calls "an enduring hatred of protestant fanaticism".

Mass tourist flows are gradually being fragmented into the "tribes" of dedicated individuals pursuing their particular vocations.

As it happens, someone somewhere built a museum dedicated to each of these vocations, to showcase such artifacts and hundreds like them.

They reveal Pindar's sense of vocation as a poet dedicated to preserving and interpreting great deeds and their divine values.

Puccini initially dedicated himself to music, therefore, not as a personal vocation but as a family profession.

Still in his 30's when he discovered his "vocation for the desert," as he put it, he has dedicated his writing and photography to preserving the myths and mysteries of the Arabian desert.

In solitude he dedicated himself to a search for the spiritual meaning of the physical world, expressing this vocation in the disciplined maxims of Le Gant de crin (1927; "The Horsehair Glove") and Le Livre de mon bord (1948; "The Book Beside Me").