Sentence examples for former vocation from inspiring English sources

But Richards's career is in tatters and at 46 it is unlikely he can return to his former vocation, policework.

"The bottom line is that they're operating outside the umbrella of the church," said the Rev. Thomas P. Nydegger, the vice rector at Immaculate Conception Seminary in South Orange, N.J., and former vocation director for the Archdiocese of Newark.

John Still's former vocation as a salesman has proven handy around Kenilworth Road.

The fact that one now exists the International Towing & Recovery Museum in Chattanooga, Tenn. is a tribute to the devotion that she and her husband, Richard, feel for their former vocation (the Stearns owned a towing business).

Mohamed was a carpenter in Syria, and he dreams of reprising his former vocation in America.

He learned to use a weapon and march in formation, but he was more useful in jobs closer to his former vocations — healer and organizer.

Fejes and Köpsén argue that in-service training is needed to help vocational teachers participate in and maintain the competencies needed to belong to the communities of their former vocations.

She should know; she is also a former professional motocross racer, on top of her other vocations.

VOCATION: Professional skateboarder, former reality-TV star and skater-dude clothing-line impresario, occasional movie actor, philanthropist.

Surgery provided "an inexhaustible source of amusement," often involving amputation puns and jokes about former butchers finding their true vocation in the medics' tent.

Although form's dominion over content is no longer as prevalent today, Larsen attributes many contemporary artists' vocations to that former aesthetic climate.