Sentence examples for sought advancement from inspiring English sources

He sought advancement in the Church, but spent many years as a vicar in rural Irish parishes, encircled by Catholics.

"I'm sure there were a lot of women before Shpritzer who sought advancement in the department and then gave up, figuring it was not worth the risk," Commissioner Murphy said.

Meanwhile, she was raising her daughter and developing a social life that revolved around an intimate community of like-minded black urban professionals who, like Jarrett, sought advancement not only for themselves but for the local African-American community.

From 1611 he was a royal chaplain and came gradually to the notice of King James I. His lifelong conflict with John Williams, later bishop of Lincoln and archbishop of York, began when both sought advancement through the patronage of Charles's favourite, the Duke of Buckingham.

On 20 May he was brought before the privy council for questioning; 10 days later he was fatally stabbed through the right eye in a Deptford lodging-house – a dissident author (in one reading of this sequence of events) disappearing in a huddle of snoops and spies, those "climbing followers", to borrow an ominous phrase from The Jew of Malta, who sought advancement in the downfall of others.

And employees seeking advancement had better not mind looking at gay porn with the boss.

Cooks are a wandering lot, seeking advancement, experience and a chance to participate in the creation of a great restaurant.

Pinault referred to a study suggesting that female employees are more hesitant than male employees to seek advancement.

François-Henri Pinault of Kering, LVMH's rival at the top level of luxury, recently told the New Yorker that there were particular challenges in promoting women, suggesting female employees were more hesitant than their male counterparts in seeking advancement.

In every instance, the so-called breakaway faction had a majority within the Irish republican movement as it veered away from armed struggle to seek advancement by constitutional means.

Thus, no policeman was to be supervised by a woman, although both female sergeants indicated at a public announcement of their promotions that they would continue to seek advancement in the department.