Word Finder - profession

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A declaration of belief, faith or one's opinion, whether genuine or pretended.

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Despite his continued professions of innocence, the court eventually sentenced him to five years.

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An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.

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My father was a barrister by profession.

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The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.

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His conduct is against the established practices of the legal profession.

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A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.

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She died only a few years after her profession.

He was educated for the profession of law and practised as avocat.

His parents meant him for the military profession, but his bent being for study he was allowed to enter the university of Paris.

In 1806 he became a medical practitioner in partnership with James Gregory, but, though successful in his profession, preferred literature and philosophy.

During a large portion of his life he followed the profession of an apothecary.

His further pursuit of the legal profession seemed to be out of the question, and on his return to Boston he remained quietly at home.

At least he had found the correct profession.

He proclaimed a crusade against Louis and the French, and, after the peace of Lambeth, he forced Louis to make a public and humiliating profession of penitence (1217).

He was educated at the lycee Louis le Grand, and afterwards studied medicine, a profession which he abandoned in 1894 for that of literature.

Archbishop Ralph of Canterbury refused to consecrate him unless he made a profession of obedience to the southern see; this Thurstan refused and asked the king for permission to go to Rome to consult Pope Paschal II.

After his election the pope had to make a profession of the Catholic faith, and give guarantees against arbitrary translations.

After 1881 he devoted his time to the practice of his profession and to lecturing and writing.

Cranmer's conduct was certainly consistent with his profession that he did not desire, as he had not expected, the dangerous promotion.

He was educated for the law, but gave up his profession on the death of his father, and devoted four years to the study of literature, philosophy and science.

What was his profession?

Now came the choice of a profession.

Within a few years he took rank among the leading members of the profession at a bar which included some of the ablest lawyers of the country.

Born in a stirring seaport, the son of a distinguished naval officer, he naturally adopted the profession of a sailor.

His father, who was descended from an old untitled noble family and possessed a small estate, was by profession an advocate.

He continued the profession of his religion.

The new profession of the delator must have given a stimulus to oratory.

The foregoing editorial accurately sums up the attitude of the profession.

Indeed, the legal profession has already found its territory is being increasingly encroached upon from exactly such outside professions.

You're a disgrace to the profession.

Although no system or important doctrine of medicine was originated by the Roman intellect, and though the practice of the profession was probably almost entirely in the hands of the Greeks, the most complete picture which we have of medical thought and activity in Roman times is due to a Latin pen, and to one who was, in all probability, not a physician.

The conclusion supported by most evidence seems to be that he practised on his friends and dependants, but not as a remunerative profession.

Of these the earliest is Avenzoar or Abumeron, that is, Abu Merwan `Abd al-Malik Ibn Zuhr (beginning of 12th century), a member of a family which gave several distinguished members to the medical profession.

By education and position a little out of the regular lines of the profession, he took up in medicine an independent attitude.

In August 1711, at the age of seventeen, he came home, and the usual battle followed between a son who desired no profession but literature and a father who refused to consider literature a profession at all.

His father was a lawyer, and, designing Moses for his own profession, sent him on the completion of his study of the humanities at Orleans to the university of Poitiers.

I recognize the very significant contribution the legal profession has made over many years to ensuring that people have access to justice.

Some English teachers working legally have, however, welcomed the crackdown, saying illegal workers are harming the profession.

Coming of Age has convinced the profession that there is a future here for everyone in South Asian dance.

Back problems, cement dermatitis, vibration white finger and deafness can ruin people's lives and force them out of their chosen profession.

But as he soon became eminent in his profession he altered some of his measures.

This means that graduates will have clear evidence of their ability, making them readily employable within their chosen profession.

Norman Foster has occupied the forefront of his profession with notable examples of his work worldwide.

Mark Wood was equally forthright about the need for the profession to embrace the opportunities offered.

I live with my wife and two grown-up sons in Medway, Kent, UK and I am a freelance graphic artist/designer by profession.

Food safety, especially related to animal infections that pose a threat to human health are increasingly high-profile among the veterinary profession.

Have these professional hypnotherapy associations and organizations promoted and maintained the practice of hypnotherapy associations and organizations promoted and maintained the practice of hypnotherapy as a ethical profession?

He is not a bad fellow, tho an absolute imbecile in his profession.

Far from making medicine irresistible, higher levels of pay mean many more doctors can now afford to leave the profession.

By nurturing a diverse legal profession today, we are ensuring a more diverse judiciary in the future.

But are the insurance industry and legal profession really responsible for so-called " sleazy kickbacks "?

I will be starting a website soon which will give the lowdown on the ESL profession from the teachers ' point of view.

Eleanor Bold appeared before him, no longer as a beautiful woman, but as a new profession called matrimony.

This introduction to the notarial profession is not the place for a detailed study of notarial profession is not the place for a detailed study of notarial work.

She is a historian and archeologist by profession, and is now a bestselling novelist.

And therefore, before her profession came out of the said nunnery into the country.

Let us stand up and be heard as a unique specialist nursing profession.