Sentence examples for vocation off from inspiring English sources

Sex work was meant to be a means to an end, something to do until I got my real vocation off the ground.

There is a tendency to venerate the "Labour tradition" as a spiritual vocation – which puts off anyone who feels untouched by the spirit – or to presume only idiots, sadists and plutocrats vote Conservative.

"His brutal words finished off my vocation — and my youthful innocence about race," Thomas writes.

Erasmus has not helped here since he uses More as an example of one who, having tested himself for a religious vocation, could not shake off the idea of marriage: "And so he chose to be a god-fearing husband rather than an immoral priest" (CWE 7: Ep. 999, p. 21).

It's the young fisherman's way of summing up the dangerous exertion that is his part-time vocation: sand dredging off the coast of Makoko, the world's biggest floating city.

Father Judge was born Robert Emmett Judge in Brooklyn, the son of Irish immigrants; his mother could not stand Catholic clergy and hoped he would shake off his teenage vocation.

Because of their utilitarian roles, many of the transporters that once served racing teams were not preserved as treasures, but scrapped or sold off for less honored vocations.

Start your journey off as a non-vocation character in Rookguard.

She's found what is her true vocation and she's working her socks off".

By and large, people looking for a vocation as a detective need to begin off as cops.

Abbott is one of those increasingly rare politicians to have followed a vocation rather than simply to have sought a way of living off the taxpayer.