The phrase "proper occupation" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's job or work in a formal or professional setting. Example: "His proper occupation was that of a lawyer, but he also had a passion for art."
McCarthy has said, in interviews, that there is "no such thing as life without bloodshed," and that the novelist's proper occupation is with death.
He is a man who, having decided that conversing with his inner child is no proper occupation for an adult, has invited demons in to engage with his soul.
Inevitably, he cast Plowright in his biopic, Callas Forever, due for release this year: 'She is a gossip journalist there, one of those women Maria always had around.' Plowright's proper occupation, in Zeffirelli's family romance, is nurturing.
As JM Coetzee, the South African novelist, put it in his book of essays, On Censorship: "The contest with the censor is all too likely to assume an importance in the inner life of the writer that at the least diverts him from his proper occupation and at worst fascinates and even perverts the imagination".
According to Gilbert (2007), the rules governing land use and ownership in modern societies have been framed around cultivation of land as the proper occupation of land and, therefore, the basis for any land tenure system.
Maybe it sounded good to taunt the Bush administration as a bunch of screw-ups who didn't know how to run a proper occupation.
But he argued that his hard labour in the fields had prevented him from studying and attacked "bookworms who ignored their proper occupations" and craved a college education for their own selfish benefits.
In the desert proper, sedentary occupation is confined to the oases, where irrigation permits limited cultivation of the date palm, pomegranate, and other fruit trees; such cereals as millet, barley, and wheat; vegetables; and such specialty crops as henna.
Muslim dismay at Tony Blair's co-invasion of Iraq in 2003 did not sway that decision, though it could be argued that anti-war sentiment inhibited proper post-invasion occupation planning and encouraged the Sunni insurrection against both invaders and Shia Muslims.
The feud between the State and Defence Departments meant there was no proper planning before the occupation (the Pentagon chucked away State's plans), inadequate supervision by the Pentagon of reconstruction, and an over-reliance on private contractors.
Among recent graduates, the acquired portfolio of skills will not fully match the portfolio required for proper performance in the occupation for which the students were trained.
