Sentence examples for sort of occupation from inspiring English sources

Tanks had not previously been used against protesters, and the force of the assault suggested that the military planned some sort of occupation of the town.

His father found him a sort of occupation: he was appointed mayor of a village south of Turin and also became the administrator of extensive holdings in the vicinity belonging to his uncles.

These critics didn't only seek the widespread recognition of the directors they admired but (as Jean-Luc Godard told me in 2000) thought they were, in a way, prolonging the French Resistance "against a certain sort of occupation, in the cinema, by people who had no business being there".

More recently Lebanon is living through a different sort of occupation that could be perhaps more detrimental to the future of the country than all the previous occupations.

Looking at Bangladesh, Mexico and Sweden, the bank found that men and women tended to separate themselves into the same sorts of occupation in all three countries.

It was always a daft argument: ask Florida who was in this "super-creative core" and he'd suggest all sorts of occupations that didn't sound especially groovy, such as IT support staff.

"He has so much common sense because it is sort of an insane occupation," Mr. Melamid mused.

But he doesn't have the sort of education or occupation that would seem to go along with the house he lives in.

But over the years she's had all sorts of other occupations: welder, architect, sales associate in an American company, ​sophrologist, the list goes on.

But over the years she's had all sorts of other occupations: welder, architect, sales associate in an American company,  ​sophrologist, the list goes on.

Granted, this is true of a particular sort of person in any occupation — it's hard, for example, to imagine Mitt Romney with iridescent orange dust all over his hands, unless he had accidentally purchased Halloween.