Sentence examples for respected occupation from inspiring English sources

Barnhill introduces her narrator, Cassian, as a "storyteller, practitioner of a revered and respected occupation in my world, with a long and (mostly) glorious history".

In most Western urban-industrial societies, such attributes as a respected occupation, the possession and consumption of material goods, physical appearance and dress, and etiquette and manners have become more important than lineage in determining one's social status.

He became known for leaving his job as an engineer at a power station to become a sweeper (the least respected occupation in Russian society) and devote all his free time to creativity.

According to a poll cited by Gartner, when asked "Do you think that starting a new business is a respected occupation in your community?", 91% of Americans polled said yes vs. 28% of British and 8% of Japanese respondents.

We've so completely lost sight of our peaceful capabilities, so misunderstood the point of our civilian foreign policy agencies, that even our diplomats demand our military occupations be "respected".

A native individual has been matched with each first-generation immigrant with respect to occupation, region of residence and age, to form a comparison sample of natives to the original data set.

The interpretation is then limited to men in respect to occupation.

An inverse relation seems to exist with respect to occupation for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

With respect to occupation, 71.2% of the women were house wives, followed by employed (20.5%), merchants (4.9%) and students (3.4%).

With respect to occupation, we found strong associations between urban people and infection with Beijing genotype strains.

This study did not include many other cancer risk-modifying factors that could affect the relative SIRs for various types of cancer with respect to occupation.