The police authorities generally belonged to the social elite, but the men they hired came from very diverse backgrounds, as policing was considered a lowly occupation.
It was the third faintly derogatory allusion made to her lowly occupation so far this evening by my high-flying friends.
In some societies, clans or lineages may be ranked generally as aristocrats and commoners or graded from a royal clan down to clans that are stigmatized for lowly occupation or slave origin.
Throughout the nineteenth century the specialty was dominated by practitioners who aspired to be gentlemanly physicians and spurned surgery as a lowly occupation, beneath the dignity of educated medical men.
In Germany 13% of all PhD graduates end up in lowly occupations.
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Shunned by higher castes, they have been consigned to Hindu society's lowliest occupations and its lowest ranks in terms of wealth, literacy and land holdings.
However, when divinity takes on human form and lowly human occupation, it becomes the margin or marginality.
Mr. Carnevale said that the earnings gap between men and women could be explained in part because women tended to gravitate toward more lowly paid occupations like teaching, even when they had degrees — like math or science — that prepared them for better-paying jobs.
The privileged status of the scribe over illiterate manual laborers was the subject of a popular Ramesside Period instructional text, The Satire of the Trades, where lowly, undesirable occupations, for example, potter, fisherman, laundry man, and soldier, were mocked and the scribal profession praised.
The entertainment business in the covered bazaars in the marketplace and at the entrances of bridges also provided a lowly means of occupation for storytellers, puppeteers, jugglers, acrobats, tightrope walkers, exhibitors of wild animals, and old soldiers who flaunted their strength by lifting heavy beams, iron weights, and stones for show.
