Sentence examples for vocation from from inspiring English sources

She inherited her vocation from her mother, who was a Madam Sara, too.

But Laos has other resonance for Mr. Obama, who has made a vocation, from Cuba to Myanmar, of opening ties to closed societies.

The path from inspiration to vocation, from that artsy late-night feeling to a full creative career, is a long one, and, like rain clouds or the later hairstyles of David Bowie, it is singularly difficult to track.

Kim Il-sung's account says he prepared for his vocation from a tender age; he recalls vowing to defeat the forces of imperialism at the age of five, when he was playing on a swing in his mother's arms.

At the Garden, the band inhabited that vocation from its matching leather pants to its elaborate stage set, which featured a balloon snowman and a giant jester's head at the back of the stage.

In one of these collections, Mr. Updike summed up his love of his vocation: "From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire apparatus of printing.

It is much such a word, he says, "as vocate would be from vocation, orate from oration, or gradate from gradation".

The organization invests in diverse vocations from dancers and architects, to visual artists and traditional craftspeople.

For the others who drive towards great paying jobs, they can find vocations, from medicine to law to running a flower shop that fit their interests and passions.

"My vocation shifted from education and youth employment toward wars and starvation in Africa," he said.

Where I wonder, does he think his restless sense of vocation came from?