Sentence examples for vocation by from inspiring English sources

Each gardener arrived at the vocation by a different route.

Eric Guiomar, a cardboard furniture maker, discovered his vocation by accident.

This is a disrespectful vocation by its nature – prying, voyeuristic, kleptomaniacal, and presumptuous.

The Voice also helped to create the romance of the journalistic vocation by making journalism seem a calling, a means of self-expression, a creative medium.

The I.R.A. has maintained its revolutionary vocation by retaining the vast bulk of its arms, advising Colombian rebels, and probably tacitly encouraging dissident republican terrorist activity.

Enter Dr. Joyce, who says he came to his vocation by reading "Gravity's Rainbow," Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel about rockets and death in World War II, while he was a student at the University of Chicago.

He was a magnificent policeman, by vocation and by devotion".

The church was not "a job" for me; it was a vocation, a calling by God.

They also suggested getting experience of other vocations by work shadowing and they encouraged me to phone people to follow up on my ideas and the speculative interest I had shown in organisations.

It will be, first and foremost, by vocation and almost by nature, the affair of the heirs of de Toqueville, Aron, or General de Gaulle.

The filmmakers reconstruct her obstinate artistic vocation — anchored by her longtime employment as a nanny — by tracking down many of her former wards and visiting the French village of her ancestry.