Sentence examples for professional instead of from inspiring English sources

The sterling professional, instead of dialing security, quips that you'll be "needing another drink".

To reach a professional rank, I simply checked the box on the form for professional instead of amateur.

But considering where they came from, many said it was a small sacrifice for the chance to become a professional instead of a cabdriver or farmer.

Having business cards on hand will ensure that you can always let people know how to contact you, and look like a professional instead of just another student.

Last May, Felix ran 22.11 to set a junior world record, the race that spurred her to turn professional instead of competing at the University of Southern California, although she takes classes there.

("I wish her nothing but success, she truly deserves it," the playwright Craig Lucas said). It's hard to know how many of these relationships foundered on professional instead of personal shoals; in any case, Ms. Schulman laughed when I told her how much she is feared.

"Journalists who think of themselves as professionals, instead of as propaganda workers, are making a fundamental mistake about identity".

The Obamas have gained and lost in their four years in the White House, becoming seasoned professionals instead of newcomers, more conventional, with a contracted sense of possibility.

"But now I think I might still have a chance".At the very least, she now has a job, a basic income, and a treatment plan that involves her family and medical professionals instead of prison guards.

Even if Martin had been at his sharpest, mixing big returns and bigger serves with angled volleys and flat backhands, the in-form and in-style Federer would have been a handful in an arena where he was once picking up balls for the professionals instead of striking balls as a professional.

Mr. Murray and Stanley Crouch, a writer who learned much from him, wrote about the greatness of jazz players not just as musicians but as men; they established a moral ideology for the music, arguing that its practitioners were beating the odds as jazz professionals instead of making more money in a funk or a rock band.