Sentence examples for primarily professional from inspiring English sources

Although shamans and Daoist priests occasionally experience private ecstasies, they are primarily professional ecstatics whose mysticism is a component of group religious activities.

Those persons who are primarily academic can all too easily feel that those who are primarily professional have different and competing identifications of themselves and their disciplines.

In 1964 he joined the New York Daily News, and quickly became the paper's beat writer for the Giants football team, while continuing to cover primarily professional football during his two-decade career with the Daily News.

Julia, whose marriage to her longtime director (Jeremy Irons) has long been a primarily professional attachment, falls into an affair with Tom Fennel Shaun Evanss), a sweet-faced, penniless American who turns out to be a callow adventurer.

Roger was not one to collect disciples, but he taught a lot of us — and I don't mean only, or primarily, professional critics — a lot of what we know about movies and about criticism.

And when Mr. Blankfein said that buyers of mortgage-backed securities were primarily professional investors, Mr. Angelides interrupted to point out that those investors were "representing pension funds who have the life savings of police officers, teachers".

Furthermore, situations of power abuse (primarily professionals vs. detainees, but also detainees vs. detainees, and professionals vs. professionals) should be a focus of investigation.

The latter primarily play professional basketball, tennis, and soccer.

V.I.P. is overseen by a volunteer board of directors, composed primarily of professional psychologists.

By comparison, the men pictured most frequently on the front pages were known primarily for professional reasons.

Thus, only a few solo parts had to be played by experts hired primarily as professional musicians.