Sentence examples for its vocation from inspiring English sources

In the public sphere today we are questioning the state of Israel -- and what its goal is and its vocation and what type of state it will be -- through the relationship with the Arabs.

He worries that literature "is in danger of becoming a soft-boiled egg instead of being a hard-boiled one, which is its vocation".

Now the policy is ash and Big Tobacco is free to pursue its vocation of severely shortening the lives of one in two of its customers.

Nooyi, ranked by Fortune as the world's most powerful woman, is reframing the very essence of what the food and beverage industry should be — shifting its vocation from feeding people to nourishing them.

Mr Bush, however, has already offended Arab and European sentiment by conceding last year that it is unrealistic to expect Israel to make a "full and complete" return, or accept the return of Palestinian refugees in numbers that would extinguish its vocation as Jewish state.Do such differences boil down to tactics, or do they reflect a deeper split?

"Its vocation is to teach people how to be citizens and to develop their critical faculties, with the ability to choose their own leisure activities, meet others and take part in social life". The library organises a range of workshops, including reading, computing, basket-making and lino-cutting, readings, slide shows and concerts.

Once the unnaturalness of naturalism (the impossibility of art's doubling of the world, its shadow-play relationship with its subject matter) is acknowledged, its real vocation - making the invisible visible (light itself, for instance) - can be registered and enjoyed.

The truth of the text is therefore found in its objectification of a discourse of knowledge on cultural difference that reveals the literary object in its identitarian vocation while consecrating it as an isolatable entity in a system of cultural participation.

The I.R.A. has maintained its revolutionary vocation by retaining the vast bulk of its arms, advising Colombian rebels, and probably tacitly encouraging dissident republican terrorist activity.

Yet it's still true to its educational vocation, as the able staff are assisted by a gaggle of ambitious hotel management students eager to train at one of the classiest hotels in town.

As far as the inhabitants are concerned, it's an area famed, or notorious, for its provincial vocation and cultural immobility.