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Example sentences for "vocations"

Lexicographically close words:
vocari; vocat; vocata; vocation; vocational; vocative; vocatum; vocatur; vocatus; voce
  1. Some of the trappers, however, pursued their vocations about the neighboring streams.

  2. Article II, entitled “The Right to Work,” provides that all citizens able to work have the right to employment at their vocations and remuneration fixed for such class of work.

  3. All citizens able to work have the right to employment at their vocations and for remuneration fixed for such class of work.

  4. There has been an astonishing increase in the number of employments, as compared with the few different vocations of earlier days.

  5. Without this item some vocations cannot be entered at all, and there is no vocation in which the mental training would not be a fine additional equipment.

  6. The sons of the physicians have gone into vocations that were hardly recognized when their fathers began practice.

  7. And this works out well in connection with the physiological laws which were stated a little while since, providing that our vocations are along the line of our interests.

  8. The handicrafts cover so wide a range that the material progress of civilization can be classed under them, and indeed without their development the arts and vocations would be impossible.

  9. Dismal failures result, and many useful lives are shortened, because men make the mistake of entering vocations for which they have insufficient mental or physical capacity.

  10. For hundreds of miles of coast there is one great deposit composed of shells--a white pumiceous stone like chalk, including gypsum and infusoria.

  11. So they took out the riches and the Plant de Bat, and the riches they did give to churches and hospitals, and the Plant de Bat they did execute, hanging the boys, and burning the girl.

  12. We were a jovial company, and the laird, surrounded by so many of his clan, was to me a pleasing sight.

  13. Men in the factories of the old world, working side by side at the weaver's loom, in the coal pit or elsewhere in following the various vocations of life-in this condition the Gospel preached by the elders of Israel has reached them.

  14. The Mormons were at peace with God and all mankind, quietly minding their own business, pursuing their vocations of life and building up the country for the benefit and blessing of all who should come within their gates.

  15. Vocations in America and Australia; for the Irish people throughout the world; for the souls of our deceased penitents.

  16. One might say that colored people were not desired in the higher pursuits of labor and that their preparation for such vocations never received the support of the rank and file of the Negroes of the North.

  17. Under him the institution was at once a success in preparing advanced pupils of both sexes for the higher vocations of teaching and preaching.

  18. That is a good rule; those who are law-abiding and well-disposed, those who pursue their vocations lawfully and with due respect to the rights of others, are the true American citizens.

  19. There seem to be elements of character in all great men--almost the identical basis of character in the one as in the other, the different vocations explaining any minor differences that are to be found in them.

  20. After the Reformation the vocations of spiritual and medical adviser diverged wider and wider, until now a priest or minister is seldom consulted for bodily infirmities, and only by persons of the most ignorant and superstitious denominations.

  21. Yet happily the alarm is subsiding lest by her entrance on the new vocations woman should permanently wreck her physical constitution, refuse to marry, or cause industrial disaster through over-competition.

  22. Even if the participation of woman in the mental activities and the public vocations which men have hitherto monopolized should prove harmful to her, has she not a right to discover the fact by experience?

  23. The only alternative is that all the earlier preparation for vocations be indirect rather than direct; namely, through engaging in those active occupations which are indicated by the needs and interests of the pupil at the time.

  24. We must avoid not only limitation of conception of vocation to the occupations where immediately tangible commodities are produced, but also the notion that vocations are distributed in an exclusive way, one and only one to each person.

  25. In the second place, those vocations which are specifically industrial have gained tremendously in importance in the last century and a half.

  26. For only those things were named vocations or employments which involved manual labor, laboring for a reward in keep, or its commuted money equivalent, or the rendering of personal services to specific persons.

  27. And he cannot completely find himself when vocations are looked upon with contempt, and a conventional ideal of a culture which is essentially the same for all is maintained.

  28. Religious vocations are not common, but special.

  29. It has two hundred and fifty thousand reporters selected from people in eight vocations in life.

  30. We know of cases in which druggists, ministers, and students from school, compelled to relinquish their chosen vocations on account of failing health, have resorted to the nursery or hot-house.

  31. The gains of ordinary trades and vocations are honest; and furthered by two things chiefly: by diligence, and by a good name, for good and fair dealing.

  32. In this branch of economy, the mechanic and the mathematician fairly meet; and it requires a rare union of ability in both vocations to arrive at original results in this sphere.

  33. Of all vocations this is the one with which narrow motives and exclusive points of view are most incompatible.

  34. The scholastic requirement for such advancement as these vocations contemplate, is provided for in the established school program of the lower grades.

  35. It is decided then whether he shall be one of the great army of wage workers or whether he shall fall into some one of the several social classes and vocations which stand apart from the common mass of wage earners.

  36. Great Britain organization of women voters under organized women and Women, and vocational training and vocations compulsory underbidders in meat-packing plants non-wage-earning Woolston, Howard B.

  37. This has started a new class of vocations as sacred as the ministry was of old.

  38. They are not keeping her out of the various vocations of life because of the evil which she might encounter.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vocations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.