Sentence examples for vocation on from inspiring English sources

It celebrates the rejuvenation of its unique, non-mining-related vocation on this earth, which is to run around in the baking heat for days on end, push talent and sledging into equal service in the pursuit of athletic supremacy, and be better at everything than England.

Hoagland makes friends with "a Mohawk Indian called Chief," who supervises the tigers and lions: "He had chosen a risky vocation on purpose, as if to fly the flag of the Indian Nation and thumb his nose at the pathetic alternatives on the reservation.

Those ends include preserving their family-centered lifestyle, working hard at an honest trade, and passing a meaningful vocation on to their children.

Abe Leigh had a general practice in Salford, and Leigh grew up in a middle-class Jewish household, attending Salford grammar school and going to the Habonim summer camp, where he found a theatrical and satirical vocation putting on plays and revues.

For those willing to put their lives and vocations on the line to proclaim it.

Dr. Illouz, who teaches at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, found that elements of the black church, like its emotionality and focus on justice, "pervade 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' which has taken on the vocation of relieving a multiplicity of forms of suffering through the use of speech infused with the rhetorical style of black preachers".

Stowe said of the book that she had a "vocation to preach on paper," just as the men in her family preached in pulpits.

The vocation is catching on internationally as well.

These past few years an opposition with little democratic vocation has carried on with a coup d'etat and a devastating oil strike that cost the country over $10 billion, and has continuously promoted civil disobedience, incited violence and systematically harassed public officials.

"And I transmit to the players that football's a vocation based on their ilusión.

In "Martin Eden" (1908), London's most autobiographical novel, vocation alights on the sailor hero in the South Seas, where — with a grammar, a dictionary, and a set of Shakespeare — he has been training himself to be worthy of a girl he fell for back in San Francisco: "In splendor and glory, came the great idea.