Sentence examples for inclinations led from inspiring English sources

Although Symington was educated for the ministry at Glasgow and Edinburgh, his inclinations led him to become a civil engineer.

His more perverse inclinations led him to an expertise in the particular grotesqueries of carnival sideshows; he can swallow swords and eat glass.

It did not, Mr. Kerry said, though it helped that his natural inclinations led him into foreign affairs and the environment, and not health care, education and civil rights, the Kennedy spheres of influence.

Born to a German-Jewish father who struggled to make a living from a window-cleaning business and a doting Russian-Jewish mother whose socialist inclinations led her to sell the Daily Worker on the streets of Harlem, he was brought up in the Washington Heights district of Manhattan.

Bartke's scientific inclinations led him to enroll in 1956 at Krakow's Jagiellonian University--where Nicolaus Copernicus studied--and undertake a 5-year program that gave him the equivalent of a master's degree in zoology.

The Seaforths' royalist inclinations led to Lewis becoming garrisoned during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms by Cromwell's troops, who destroyed the old castle in Stornoway.

Optimists and pessimists may inhabit opposing camps, but they do have one thing in common: their inclinations lead to behaviours that verify their prophecies.

The Burmese do not shine as business men ; their inclinations lead them more to agricultural pursuits, and nothing more than the petty retail trade of the country is in their hands.

It also grants a student the freedom to go in whatever direction her or his intellectual inclinations lead, without regard to the ultimate economic utility of the course of study.

The Burmese do not shine as business men ; their inclinations lead them more to agricultural pursuits, and nothing more than the petty retail trade of the country is in their hands.regular service on the river by means of a magnificent fleet of steamers, and year by year this fleet is being added to by the building of superior boats.

And even those who do may be tempted to overlook it, both because their own inclinations lead them towards further European integration and because the neatest conceptual way to organise an expanded club is to impose a strong central authority on it.That the EU needs a new purpose, or at least a new definition of purpose, should not be in doubt.