Pronunciation of the English word occupations.
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1. | The lawgivers wanted women to work in traditionally male occupations. Equally importantly, the lawgivers wanted men to work in traditionally female occupations. | |
2. | He maintained that all occupations should be open to women. | |
3. | It is now a fully accepted idea that all occupations should be open to women. | |
4. | The character of men depends more on their occupations than on any teaching we can give them. | |
5. | Age discrimination is illegal and retirement is mandatory in only a few occupations. | |
6. | Stock-raising is one of the farmer's occupations and the animals are carefully selected according to their breed. | |
7. | Cattle breeding is one of the farmer's occupations and the animals are carefully selected according to their breed. | |
8. | The search for the truth is the most noble of occupations, and its publication, a duty. | |
9. | Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions. | |
10. | A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages...chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while it affords no benefit whatever to the body. Chess has acquired a high reputation as being a means to discipline the mind, but persons engaged in sedentary occupations should never practice this cheerless game; they require out-door exercises--not this sort of mental gladiatorship. |