Professional Sentence Examples

He slipped into that professional persona.

The messy studio from last week had been transformed into a professional art gallery.

After watching the professional baseball game, Johnny aspired to become a famous athlete one day.

No one but Clarissa could be so cool and professional at the same time.

Just like that, she was cool and professional again.

Petitions continued to flow in to the emperor's cabinet, praying for a national representation, from the zemstvos, from the nobles and from the professional classes, and their moral was enforced by general agitation, by partial strikes, and by outrages which culminated at Moscow in the murder of the Grand-duke Sergius (February 4th, 1 9 05).

A state board of education, consisting of the state superintendent and five other persons appointed by him, constitutes a state board of examiners (for special primary, high school and professional certificates) and prescribes the course of study.

The subject matter of the jurisdiction of Hellenic courts Christian seems to be confined to strictly spiritual discipline, mainly in regard to the professional misconduct of the clergy.

In 1852 Professor Stowe accepted a professorship in the Theological Seminary at Andover, Massachusetts, and the family made its home there till 1863, when he retired wholly from professional life and removed to Hartford.

Fred made a professional recovery with the help of a gulp of lemonade as Dean continued to address Mrs. Byrne.

The professional soldiers of the Continent could rarely be brought to force a decision; but the English, contending for a cause, were imbued with the spirit of the modern "nation in arms"; and having taken up arms wished to decide the quarrel by arms. This feeling was not less conspicuous in the far-ranging rides, or raids, of the Cromwellian cavalry.

For higher and professional education there are two national universities at Buenos Aires and Cordoba, and three provincial universities, at La Plata, Santa Fe and Parana, which comprise faculties of law, medicine and engineering, in addition to the usual courses in arts and science.

She spoke quickly, hoping that desire could be covered up by a professional front.

In regard to " clerks," there was (1) all the criminal jurisdiction which existed over laymen, and (2) criminal jurisdiction in regard to professional misconduct.

There have been several professional photographers (all detected in fraud sooner or later) who made it their business to take photo complaints, to certain epidemics of the middles ages,' and to phenomena that have occurred at some religious revivals.

Cynthia finished her wedding pronouncement by tossing out a comment about her foolish son considering delaying the final year of his education to play professional baseball, a decision against which she and Rose Calvia planned to exert a full court press.

Another suggestion, which rests, however, merely on its own internal probability, is that Squarcione had at the outset used his pupil Andrea as the unavowed executant of certain commissions, but that after a while Andrea began painting on his own account, thus injuring the professional interests of his chief.

Alex had his professional expression on, but Dulce was pouting.

So you hired a housekeeper with a professional attitude.

He summoned experienced teachers, Protestant as well as Catholic, from Germany, established middle and higher schools in all parts of the empire, superseded the antiquated textbooks and methods of instruction, and encouraged the formation of learned societies and the growth of a professional spirit and independence among the teachers.

His professional success was not great; his manner was violent, his appearance unattractive, and his speech impaired by a painful stammer.

It was named in honour of President Monroe and was first regularly garrisoned in 1823; in 1824 the Artillery School of Practice (now called the United States Coast Artillery School) was established to provide commissioned officers of the Coast Artillery with instruction in professional work and to give technical instruction to the non-commissioned staff.

There are so few representations of armed men that it seems doubtful if there can have been any professional military class.

You don't have to find a great cause or become a professional do-gooder.

It was publicly sealed and witnessed by professional witnesses, as well as by collaterally interested parties.

It is proportional, and is collected by deduction from salaries and pensions paid to servants of the state, where it is assessed on three-eighths of the income, and from interest on consolidated stock, where it is assessed on the whole amount; and by register in the cases of private individuals, who pay on three-fourths of their income, professional men, capitalists or manufacturers, who pay on one-half or nine-twentieths of their income.

For three hours the professional regiments of all sorts in the French lines rivalled one another in enduring the fire unmoved, the forerunners of the military systems of to-day, landsknechts, Picardie and Piedmont, showing the feudal gendarmerie that they too were men of honour.

At once she became a valuable co-operator with him both in his professional duties and in the astronomical researches to which he had already begun to devote all his spare time.

Accounts of his professional services are in Charnock's Biographia Navalis, v.

This task Bentham undertook, and he brought to it a mind absolutely free from professional or class feeling, or any other species of prejudice.

His hopes of professional success were now scattered, and he was living in Paris in extreme poverty.

At the same time a class of men arose interested in these forms for their own sake, professional lawyers Bence, but also "poisons, nay destroys, the divinest feeling in man, the sense of truth," and the belief in sacraments such as the Lord's Supper, a piece of religious materialism of which "the necessary consequences are superstition and immorality."

The present library (antedated by several circulating, social and professional collections) may justly be said to have had its origin in the efforts of the Parisian, Alexandre Vattemare (1796-1864), from 1830 on, to foster international exchanges.

The freshness, the air of leisure, the enthusiasm of discovery that mark the work of these old writers have lessons for the modern professional zoologist, who at times feels burdened with the accumulated knowledge of a century and a half.

Few branches of zoology have been more valuable as a meetingground for professional and amateur naturalists than entomology, and not seldom has the amateur - as in the case of Westwood - developed into a professor.

In fact, most of them became professional courtiers, and lived habitually at Vienna.

His professional practice now largely increased.

The embarrassing thing is my mom was a professional dressmaker before she retired and still makes rag dolls and the like as a hobby.

The duplication equipment is made up exclusively of Trace ST professional duplicators.

There was a bit of good-natured punter participation and he handled it all with the consummate ease of the experienced professional that he is.

Strengthen continuing education and professional development and promote a culture in which staff feel valued and able to reach their full potential.

To prepare a graduate geologist and, or, engineer for professional practice in engineering geology and, or, geotechnical engineering.

The Xanadu Entertainment Agency always likes to hear from clients that have booked any of our represented professional entertainers or entertainment services.

Indeed many professional users will only entrust their valuable recordings to HHB media.

It was hard to tell if the visitor was unwelcome, as he always maintained a professional tone when talking to customers or strangers.

The details were too humiliating and this wasn't something she wanted to discuss with anyone – not even a professional.

She'd never seen men that big move so quickly, even when watching professional wrestling.

Such litigation as still continued before the spiritual forum was, however, confined (save in the case of the matrimonial questions of princes) to the professional conduct of the clergy.

He also caused new rules to be enacted by which his Jewish subjects were heavily handicapped in education and professional advancement.

Most of the birds he describes are characterized with accuracy sufficient to enable them to be identified, and his observations upon them have still some interest; but he was innocent of any methodical system, and was not exempt from most of the professional fallacies of his time.'

The centralization of the cotton market in Liverpool fixed firmly the system of buying through brokers, for the Liverpool importer, or his broker, was in no sense a professional adviser to the spinners, informally pledged to advance the latter's interests, as the old Manchester dealers had been.

As in his active career he had wrought organic changes in the ordering, direction and control of fleets, so by his historic studies, pursued after his retirement, he helped greatly to effect, if he did not exclusively initiate, an equally momentous change in the popular, and even the professional, way of regarding sea-power and its conditions.

The community is in the main composed of simple working people, who, apart from their peculiarity, have a good reputation; but their avoidance of professional medical attendance has led to severe criticism at inquests on children who have died for want of it.

He was much more interested in these and other political events than in his professional prospects; and his attention was specially directed to the events and tendencies which caused or preceded the Revolution in France.

The duties are estimated to produce £T393,107; other professional duties £T110,887 - together £T503,994 A " Military Exoneration tax " is levied on male Ottoman subjects between the ages of 15 and 75 to the amount of £T50 for 135 persons - certain exceptions such as priests, religious orders, &c., are allowed.

The first class contains such revenues as the emlak verghi-si (duty on realty), `ashar (tithes), temettu (professional tax), &c. In all such cases the taxable values are fixed by a commission of experts, sometimes chosen by the tax-payers themselves, sometimes by the official authorities; in all cases both tax-payers and authorities are represented on the commissions, whose decisions may be appealed against, in last resort, to the council of state at Constantinople, whose decision is final.

The preparation of the plans and the superintendence of the work were entrusted by the king to Juan Bautista de Toledo, a Spanish architect who had received most of his professional education in Italy.

Especially has this been manifested by the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and by the Municipal Association, an organization of influential professional and business men, which, by issuing bulletins concerning candidates at the primaries and at election time, has done much for the betterment of local politics.

Speaking generally, the New Town wzs resorted to by professional men - lawyers, doctors and artists, - and in its principal streets will be found the head offices of the leading banks and insurance offices, all lodged in buildings of remarkable architectural pretensions.

Under republican rule these Indians - who were mainly small shopkeepers, but included some professional men of high standing - had suffered many restrictions, and their cause had been Position of espoused by the British government.

A condition of this reform was the need of a preliminary training of the mind of the pupil in pure science, even in physics and chemistry; that is to say, before introduction into his professional studies.

Professional association football teams are maintained locally in several parts of London, and much popular interest is taken in their matches.

Besides the Istituto di studii superiori there is the Istituto di scienze sociali "Cesare Alfieri," founded by the marchese Alfieri di Sostegno for the education of aspirants to the diplomatic and consular services, and for students of economics and social sciences (about 50 students); an academy of fine arts, a conservatoire of music, a higher female training-college with 150 students, a number of professional and trade schools, and an academy of recitation.

In 1908 there were 353 government schools in the city, including 13 professional and technical schools, and nearly 200 private schools.

The state controls professional and technical schools through the regents' examinations of candidates for admission to such schools and to the professions, determines the minimum requirements for admission to college by the regents' academic examinations, maintains the large State Library and the valuable State Museum, and occasionally makes a gift to a college or a university for the support of courses in practical industries; but it maintains no college or university that is composed of a teaching body.

He was an apprentice draper, teacher and biology student before he became a professional journalist and writer.

For an unusually long period this particular poetry had occupied public and professional opinion, and all the commonplace things about it had been said and re-said to satiety.

They were led by Dr. Kramaf, and, being mostly recruited from the educated, professional and official classes, were more influential than the numbers suggest.

These misconceptions were certainly widespread from the 13th to the 16th century, and were often fostered by the " pardoners," or professional collectors of contributions for Indulgences.

Greek he absolutely proscribes, reserving a knowledge of that language to the learned and the lettered, and to professional scholars.

Ransome, Geology and Gold Deposits of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, with maps (Washington, 5906), being Professional Paper No.

As a matter of fact, his literary reputation helped his professional advancement.

Having, however, espoused the cause of the Royalist party on the breaking out of the American War of Independence, he found it expedient to abandon his professional prospects in the New World, and return to his native country.

No doubt there were many conscious hypocrites and impostors among the professional prophets, as there always will be among the professional representatives of a religious standpoint which is intrinsically untenable, and yet has on its side the prestige of tradition and popular acceptance.

The members of these bodies belong for the most part, though by no means entirely, and least so in the agricultural states, to the class of professional politicians.

Further information may be found in Sir C. C. Scott-Moncrieff, Irrigation in Southern Europe (London, 1868); Moncrieff, " Lectures on Irrigation in Egypt," Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, vol.

But Goethe's professional duties had only a small share in the eventful years which lay between hips return from Strassburg and that visit to Weimar at the end of 1775, which turned the whole course of his career, and resulted in his permanent attachment to the Weimar court.

In some cases these would have been done by professional copyists called scribes.

All of our tables are run by professional croupiers using professional gaming chips.

Excitement and suspense is created with our superb range of gaming tables and helpful professional croupiers.

Most but not all the reviews they publish may well be read as irrelevant for serious scholarly discourse and for professional affairs.

They offer discreet, durable and highly professional cards articulating your dietary needs to waiters and chefs.

Would you want a professional to work for you whose desk is piled with papers and looks completely disorganized to work on your account?

The DBA is a practitioner doctorate, designed to make a significant contribution toward the enhancement of professional practice in the area of management.

The CCTV Professional tape works in any VHS recorder, delivering crisp definition and almost eliminating dropouts.

We describe the memory functioning of a professional musician who became amnesic following herpes simplex virus encephalitis in 1985.

Professional rod builders use either two pack epoxy high build resin, or sometimes a UV curing system.

These machines will produce professional quality espresso at the touch of a button in a matter of seconds.

On the face of it, the answer would be the professional business ethicist.

This council, which consists for the most part of business and professional men, is elected by universal suffrage, each canton in the department contributing one member.

Waiting for professional business, he was content to act as court crier for two dollars and a half a day; but he soon gave indications of his talent, and his studious habits and attention to his cases rapidly brought him clients.

Levites, existed, to whom a higher professional prestige belonged.

Such advice could not be grateful to the philosophers themselves - then a definite professional class, not unlike the "spiritual directors" of a later Rome, who earned their bread by smoothing away the doubts of the scrupulous on all matters intellectual and moral.

Higher, or superior, instruction is confined almost exclusively to professional schools - the medical schools of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, the law schools of Sao Paulo and Pernambuco, the polytechnic of Rio de Janeiro, and the school of mines of Ouro Preto.

The personal element is conspicuous in the Brazilian journalism, and for a considerable period of its history libellous attacks on persons, signed by professional sponsors, popularly called testas de ferro (iron heads), were admitted at so much a line in the best newspapers.

The difference in technical methods and the historical evolution of teaching posts (for in all civilized countries the progress of biological knowledge has been very closely associated with the existence of institutions for the diffusion of knowledge and for professional education) have been the chief contributory causes to this practical confusion.

Under the Consulate he resumed his professional work, and after Waterloo retired to America, where he became president of the university of Louisiana.

The administration of the civil and criminal law involves frequent relations with medicine, and the professional subjects most likely to arise in that connexion, together with a summary of causes celebres, are formed into the department of Medical Jurisprudence.

So matured a professional sentiment may perhaps have been more the growth of time and organization than the work of an individual genius, but certainly corresponds with the character universally attributed to Hippocrates himself.

He had, in fact, every quality necessary for an encyclopaedic writer, or even for a literary and professional autocrat.

This was a popular work intended for the laity; but there are others strictly professional.

When conditions so changed that government could free itself from its dependence on the baron, feudalism disappeared as the organization of society; when a professional class arose to form the judiciary, when the increased circulation of money made regular taxation possible and enabled the government to buy military and other services, and when better means of intercommunication and the growth of common ideas made a wide centralization possible and likely to be permanent.

Except in the neighbourhood of Aden, no regular surveys exist, and professional work is limited to the marine surveys of the Indian government and the admiralty, which, while laying down the coast line with fair accuracy, give little or no topographical information inland.

But where books failed memory was strong and the power of retaining things heard was not confined to a professional class.

The professional schools include a school of civil and mining engineering at Lima (created 1876), a military school at Chorrillos under the direction of French instructors, a naval school at Callao, nine episcopal seminaries (one for each diocese), a national agricultural school in the vicinity of Lima (created 1902), and a few commercial schools.

The next step in the development of epic narrative was the single lay of an episodic character, sung by a single individual, who was frequently a member of a distinguished family, not merely a professional minstrel.

The latter had fought fully as hard as their opponents, and Napoleon realized that they were no longer the professional soldiers of former campaigns.

Religious periodicals were 668; 338 were devoted to trade; 361 to sport; 691 represented the professional classes; 51 agriculture; and 218 were juvenile periodicals.

Brown founded at Philadelphia the Literary Magazine (1803-1808); he and Dennie may be considered as having been the first American professional men of letters.

William had assumed the duties of commander-in-chief too young to learn the full duties of a professional soldier himself, and his imperious will did not suffer others to direct him.

Sparta in particular remained, even after the reforms of Lycurgus, and on into historic times, simply the isolated camp of a compact army of occupation, of some s000 families, bearing traces still of the fusion of several bands of invaders, and maintained as an exclusive political aristocracy of professional soldiers by the labour of a whole population of agricultural and industrial serfs.

The school is primarily divided into classical and modern sides, with a special department for preparation for army, navy or professional examinations.

The Thugs were a well-organized confederacy of professional assassins, who in gangs of whom 10 to 200 travelled in various guises through India, wormed themselves into the confidence of wayfarers of the wealthier class, and, when a favourable opportunity occurred, strangled them by throwing a handkerchief or noose round their necks, and then plundered and buried them.

The foreign whites alone constituted 10.4% of the total number of persons engaged in agricultural pursuits; 11.4% of those in professional services; 2 5.7% in domestic and personal services; 19.2% in trade and transportation; and 30.6% of those engaged in manufacturing and mechanical industries.

In addition to these, the native whites of foreign parentage constituted, in agriculture, &c., Io 6%; in professional service, 20.6%; in domestic and personal service, 16.4%; in trade and transportation, 25.7% in manufacturing and mechanical, 25.4% of all those engaged in those occupations.

Excluded by his professional character from the councils of the republic, he nevertheless received all the deference and honour due to a first magistrate.

From this point of view he would have been perhaps the first historian of philosophy of his time, had his professional labours been less exacting.

In addition to his professional work, he did much administrative work for Victoria University and the university of Glasgow.

He was familiar with the disadvantages under which republics laboured when they engaged professional captains of adventure and levied mercenary troops.

His professional attainments were great, and in 1856 he was a member of a board entrusted with the revision of light artillery drill and tactics.

His military instincts did not always make it easy for him to accommodate himself to courtiers and professional politicians.

Of males (1,097, 581) engaged in 1900 in gainful occupations 47.1% were engaged in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits (77.9 in every loo in 1870 and 73 in 1900), 27.1 in trade and transportation, 14.2 in domestic and personal service, 7.4 in agricultural pursuits and 4.2 in professional service.

Lord Armstrong, who was raised to the peerage in 1887, was the author of A Visit to Egypt (1873), and Electric Movement in Air and Water (1897), besides many professional papers.

Personal property consisting of necessary household furniture, working tools and team of horses, professional instruments and a library, not exceeding $250 in value, besides the necessary food for the team for ninety days, provisions for the family, wearing apparel, wages or other income not exceeding $12 a week, and several other things, when owned by a householder or person providing for a family, are also exempt from seizure for debt, unless the debt be for purchase money or for services performed in the family by a domestic.

In the meantime the functions of the university had been extended to include an oversight of the professional, scientific and technical schools, the administration of laws relating to admission to the professions, the charge of the State Library at Albany, the supervision of local libraries, the custody of the State Museum and the direction of all scientific work prosecuted by the state.

They were attached to it in numbers; they returned imbued with professional admiration for German military organization and science; with a conviction of German power; they became the conscious or unconscious agents of German policy.

Divided by races 8.19% of the whites were engaged in professional work and only 0.26% of the coloured classes.

See Memorial of Bishop Hobart, containing a Memoir (New York, 1831); John McVickar, The Early Life and Professional Years of Bishop Hobart (New York, 1834), and The Closing Years of Bishop Hobart (New York, 1836).

The quality of the army, thus composed of picked men (a point which is often forgotten), approximated to that of a professional force; but this policy had the result that, as there was no adequate second-line army, parts of the first-line had to be reserved, instead of being employed at the front.

At the invitation of amateurs and professional friends he opened a school of composition at which several celebrated musicians were trained; as a teacher he consistently declared his preference for the traditions of the old Roman school of composition.

Side by side with the State administration certain Crown territory administrations also existed in the 17 Crown territories, carried on by selected honorary officials, having under them a staff of professional officials.

In Great Britain nearly all the general and special hospitals and many of the poor-law infirmaries offer systematic professional training to nurses.

From his time a citizen militia was replaced by a professional soldiery, which had hitherto been little liked by the Roman people.

There are also the medical school, the law school, the civil service school, the military schools and the agricultural college, which are entered by students who have passed through the secondary grade for the purpose of receiving professional instruction.

Their number is larger than is usually supposed, many of them being known to few beyond the writers who laboriously copy them and the professional "raconteurs" who draw upon them to replenish their stock-in-trade.

Precarious as these means of subsistence seem, he preferred the independence thus obtained to an assured position which would have involved obligations to a patron or professional duties which his weak health would have made onerous.

This work, with other essays, brought him into conflict with the authorities of the church, in consequence of which he gave up theology as his professional study and chose that of philosophy.

But on the whole the false prophets deserve that name, not for their conscious impostures, but because they were content to handle religious formulas, which they had learned by rote, as if they were intuitive principles, the fruit of direct spiritual experience, to enforce a conventional morality, shutting their eyes to glaring national sins, after the manner of professional orthodoxy, and, in brief, to treat the religious status quo as if it could be accepted without question as fully embodying the unchanging principles of all religion.

The popular faith was full of heathenish superstition strangely blended with the higher ideas which were the inheritance left to Israel by men like Moses and Elijah; but the common prophets accepted all alike, and combined heathen arts of divination and practices of mere physical enthusiasm with a not altogether insincere pretension that through their professional oracles the ideal was being maintained of a continuous divine guidance of the people of Yahweh.

This class is also furnishing the small traders of the towns, overseers on the plantations and public works, petty officials, and to some extent the teachers and professional men of the provincial towns.

Professional schools were also established in several of the more important provincial capitals, and everywhere increasing interest in educational matters was apparent.

Preparatory courses for professional training in the government schools were also made free and secular.

For secondary instruction the national and state schools numbered 36 with 4642 pupils, and for professional instruction 65 with 9018 students, of whom 3790 were women.

The national revenues are derived from import and export duties, port dues and other taxes levied on foreign commerce; from excise and stamp taxes and other charges upon internal business transactions; from direct taxes levied in the federal district and national territories, covering a land tax in rural districts, a house tax in the city, commercial and professional licences, water rates, and sundry taxes on bread, pulque, vehicles, saloons, theatres, &c.; from probate dues and registry fees; from a surcharge on all taxes levied by the states, called the " federal contribution," which is paid in federal revenue stamps; from post and telegraph receipts; and from some minor sources of income.

The general population is of a very mixed and turbulent kind; crimes of violence are common, and there are many professional thieves.

In his professional capacity, his attitude was correct enough; and, indeed, his anxiety for the French alliance and for the marriage between Elizabeth and Anjou led him to suggest concessions to Anjou's Catholic susceptibilities which came strangely from so staunch a Puritan.

The usual arts and scientific courses are provided, and there are four professional schools - divinity, law, physic and engineering.

Indeed, the doctrine of "aspects" and "influences" fitted excellently with his mystical conception of the universe, and enabled him to discharge with a semblance of sincerity the most lucrative part of his professional duties.

There many future leaders of public and professional life in Canada came under the influence of Strachan's vigorous personality.

For professional instruction (law, medicine, engineering) there are schools supported by private funds, but aided occasionally by the government.

Soldiers may have espoused it rather than the rival faith, because in the primitive age Christian discipline denied them the sacraments, on the ground that they were professional shedders of blood.

But in all other parts of the country the increase is faster than in the South; since aside from agriculture, which has long been in a relatively stable condition, there is not by any means so strong a movement of women into professional services in city districts.

In professional service 34.2% (in 188o, 29.4) were females, the two northern sections showing the highest proportions.

In the occupations of musicians and teachers of music, and of school-teachers and professors (which together account for seven-eighths of professional women) women preponderate.

The church refectory, dormitory and other buildings belonging to the professional life of the brethren surround the great cloister.

The Hero, Left At The Head Of A Fatherless Family Of Twelve When Nearly Through College, Turns From The Glut Of Graduates Swarming Round The Prospects Of Professional City Bred Careers, Steadfastly Wrests A Home From The Wilderness, Helps His Brothers And Sisters, Marries A Habitante Fit For The Wife Of A Pioneer,.

Although President Hayes was not popular with the professional politicians of his own party, and was exposed to bitter attacks on the part of the Democratic opposition on account of the cloud which hung over his election, his conduct of public affairs gave much satisfaction to the people generally.

In 1889, after unsuccessfully contesting Castres, he returned to his professional duties at Toulouse, where he took an active interest in municipal affairs, and helped to found the medical faculty of the university.

The Medical School may be considered the only distinctively professional school in the city.

The business of the professional money-lender is one which, as tyranny and abuse are likely to appear, all countries have at different times endeavoured to regulate.

This masterpiece of historiography was composed in 1225 or 1226 by a professional poet of talent at the request of William, son of the marshal.

His professional income amounted to £400 a year, equal to £4000 in present money, and, " considering the relative profits of the law and the value of money, probably indicated as high a station as £ io,000 at the present day " (Campbell).

In raising More to that eminent position, the king had not merely considered his professional distinction but had counted upon his avowed liberal and reforming tendencies.

His views and feelings contracted under the combined influences of his professional practice and of public employment.

The De jure praedae further demonstrates that Grotius was originally determined to this subject, not by any speculative intellectual interest, but by a special occasion presented by his professional engagements.

Grotius read the classics as a humanist, for the sake of their contents, not as a professional scholar.

Further, we know that in the 8th century B.C., there were observatories in most of the large cities in the valley of the Euphrates, and that professional astronomers regularly took observations of the heavens, copies of which were sent to the king of Assyria; and from a cuneiform inscription found in the palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh, the text of which is given by George Smith,5 we learn that at that time the epochs of eclipses of both sun and moon were predicted as possible - probably by means of the cycle of 223 lunations or Chaldaean Saros - and that observations were made accordingly.

In the days when China green teas were more used than now, the risks to a professional tea-taster were serious, because of the objectionable facing materials so often used.

The practical portions, on the contrary, are evidently the result of his own professional experience, and are written with much sagacity, and in a far clearer style than the more pedantic chapters, in which he gives the somewhat fanciful theories of the Greeks.

The charitable institutions and professional schools included in 1908 about thirty hospitals, several children's homes and homes for the aged, an industrial home, the Kansas City school of law, the University medical college, and the Scarritt training school.

The professional and trading classes form about 10% of the whole population, but 50% of the foreigners are engaged in trade.

They intermarry among themselves only, and their women are professional dancers.

The intelligent professional knowledge of the native officers, taught under British gentlemen, and the constant hard work cheerfully rendered by the fellah soldiers, were the main factors of the success achieved at Omdurman on the 2nd of September 1898.

Fish were taken sometimes in hand-nets, butthe professional fishermen with their draw-nets caught them in shoals.

Under them stood a number of subordinate priests, both professional and lay.

You should never disregard professional advice or delay in seeking advice because of something in the Contents and you should not use the Contents for diagnosing a health or other problem or prescribing a medication.

It was separated from the English Department, and undertook the inspection of higher class schools (public, endowed and voluntary), and two years later instituted a leaving certificate examination, the pass of which is accepted for most of the university and professional authorities in lieu of their preliminary examinations.

Nor had he shown himself unduly ambitious or selfseeking in the pursuit of office, and he had proved himself ready to sacrifice high place to the claims of professional honour and duty.

A system of professional examinations carried on by professional bodies, in some cases with legal sanction, was developed in England during the 19th century.

The memorial was further communicated to various professional bodies concerned.

Conferences were held by the consultative committee of the Board of Education in 1903, with representatives of the universities, the Headmasters' Conference, the Association of Head-Masters, the Association of Head-Mistresses, the College of Preceptors, the Private Schools' Association, and with representatives of professional bodies.

Examinations are suited in the first instance for the purpose for which they were originally designed in medieval universities - the test of technical and professional capacity; it has never been proposed to abolish qualifying examinations for doctors, pharmaceutical chemists, &c.; the tests applied are (or should be) direct tests of capacity carried out under conditions as nearly as possible like those of actual practice.

As professional story-tellers many Moors are remarkable, but the national music is monotonous and not very harmonious.

Besides editing several series of books, including "The Great Educators" and "The Teachers' Professional Library," he published The Meaning of Education (1898), a collection of essays; and two series of addresses, True and False Democracy (1907), and The American as he is (1908) .

That he should do so was only natural, since his position as a teacher of rhetoric was already secure when Protagoras made his first appearance in the character of a sophist; and, as Protagoras, Prodicus and the rest of the sophists of culture offered a comprehensive education, of which oratory formed only a part, whilst Gorgias made no pretence of teaching " civic excellence " (Plato, Meno, 95 C), and found a substitute for philosophy, not in literature generally, but in the professional study of rhetoric alone, it would have been convenient if the distinction between sophistry and rhetoric had been maintained.

It has been seen that the range of subjects recognized by Protagoras and Prodicus gradually extended itself, until Hippias professed himself a teacher of all branches of learning, including in his list subjects taught by artists and professional men, but handling them from a popular or non-professional point of view.

Themselves of necessity stylists, because their professional success largely depended upon skilful and effective exposition, the sophists both of culture and of rhetoric were professedly teachers of the rules of grammar and the principles of written and spoken discourse.

The taking of fees, the pride of professional success, and the teaching of rhetoric are no proofs either of conscious charlatanism or of ingrained depravity.

Though some of those who resorted to the gymnasts, physicians and musicians derived from them such substitute for " higher education " as was before 447 generally obtainable, it was only incidentally that professional men and artists communicated anything which could be called by that name.

That is to say, Grote supposes that for at least eight and forty years, from 447 to 399, the paid professors had no professional title; that, this period having elapsed, a youthful opponent succeeded in fastening an uncomplimentary title not only upon the contemporary teachers, but also, retrospectively, upon their predecessors; and that, artfully enhancing the indignity of the title affixed, he thus obscured, perverted and effaced the records and the memories of the past.

Partly for these reasons the reflecting telescope with metallic mirror has never been a favourite with the professional astronomer, and has found little employment out of England.'

The social organism of the Aryan tribe did not probably differ essentially from that of most communities at that primitive stage of civilization; whilst the body of the people - the Vis (or aggregate of Vaisyas) - would be mainly occupied with agricultural and pastoral pursuits, two professional classes - those of the warrior and the priest - had already made good their claim to social distinction.

Seeing that the epic poems, as repeated by professional reciters, either in their original Sanskrit text, or in their vernacular versions, as well as dramatic compositions based on them, form to this day the chief source of intellectual enjoyment for most Hindus, the legendary matter contained in these heroic poems, however marvellous and incredible it may appear, still enters largely into the religious convictions of the people."

Putting aside the letters and occasional writings, we may conveniently distribute the other works into three classes, Professional, Literary, Philosophical.

The Professional works include the Reading on the Statute of Uses, the Maxims of Law and the treatise (possibly spurious) on the Use of the Law.

Physicians and physiologists have frequently discussed celibacy from their professional point of view; but it will be sufficient to note here the results of statistical inquiries.

The former includes the landed proprietors, professional men and a part of those engaged in commercial and industrial pursuits.

The system includes the University of Chile and National Institute at Santiago, lyceums or high schools in all the provincial capitals and larger towns, normal schools at central points for the training of public school teachers, professional and industrial schools, military schools and primary schools.

The School of Mechanic Arts and Trades (Escuela de Artes y Oficios) of Santiago has a high reputation for the practical character of its instruction, in which it is admirably seconded bya normal handicraft school (Sloyd system) and a night school of industrial drawing in the same city, and professional schools for girls in Santiago and Valparaiso, where the pupils are taught millinery, dress-making, knitting, embroidery and fancy needlework.

The number of landed proprietors, professional men, merchants, &c., is comparatively small (about one-sixth), and a part of these are of mixed blood; the remaining five-sixths own no property, pay no taxes, and derive no benefits from the social and political institutions about them beyond the protection of the proprietors upon whose estates they live, the nominal protection of the state, and an occasional day's wage.

The whole system of methodical exercises was started by Ling in Sweden, but it has been developed to a large extent for the purpose of increasing muscular strength by the professional athlete Sandow.

Among them were cadets of old families, retired officers, professional men, farmers, tradesmen, mechanics and labourers.

We should infer also that he was not dependent on any professional occupation, and that he was separated in social station, and probably too by tastes and manners, from the higher class to which Tacitus and Pliny belonged, as he was by character from the new men who rose to wealth by servility under the empire.

Peers, naturalized foreigners and certain employees of the state were unable to sit in the House of Commons; members were required to be graduates of one of the highest, secondary or professional schools, or to possess an income of not less than 400 milreis (88).

Backed by these forces, as well as by the king and the army, Franco effected some useful reforms. But his opponents included not only the Republicans, the professional politicians and those officials who feared inquiry, but also the magistracy, the district and municipal councils, and the large body of citizens who still believed in parliamentary government.

The republican press applauded the murder; the professional politicians benefited by it.

During the 12th and at the beginning of the 13th centuries the curia regis continued to discharge these functions, except that its importance and actual competence continued to increase, and that we frequently find in it, in addition to the vassals and prelates who formed the council, consiliarii, who are evidently men whom the king had in his entourage, as his ordinary and professional councillors.

The deists were, as usually happens with the leaders of English thought, no class of professional men, but represented every rank in the community.

Here he plunged into manifold work, literary and professional.

Four days after reading his lecture his health broke down, and severe illness kept him from his professional duties until March 1808.

And finally Herodotus, a professional story-teller, rose to the height of genuine scientific investigation.

Among occupations not already detailed, those of the male population include transport of every sort (1,094,301), building and other works of construction (1,042,864), manufacture of articles of human consumption, lodging, &c. (774,291), commerce, banking, &c. (530,685), domestic service, &c. (304,195), professional occupations (311,618).

His professional income as a lawyer was estimated at $ioo,000 per annum shortly before his death at Washington, D.C., on the nth of January 1893.

Each city block consisted of 10 acres divided into eight 14-acre lots, which were assigned to professional and business men.

The professional conditions of the sepoy's career, especially in Bengal, were no longer so tempting as they had been in the first generations of the company's rule.

He had by this time "acquired such a perfection" in civil and common law that he was able to take up professional work, and he now acted as a helper to Thomas Morton in his controversies with the Catholics.

The war was therefore a typical 18th century "war with a limited object," in which no one but the cabinets and the professional armies were concerned.

Finally, there are various professional schools, most of them in St Louis and Kansas City.

During the illness which terminated his life Mirabeau confided himself entirely to the professional skill of Cabanis.

In the country the mestizos are small agriculturists, herders, labourers and fishermen; but there are many educated and successful merchants and professional men among them.

The supreme direction of this branch of the public service is entrusted to the minister of public instruction, and state aid is to be extended to the secondary, as well as to the normal, technical and professional schools.

Of his professional earnings, the small sum for which, as we have seen, he gave up his offices, and the expression of Fontenelle that he practised "sans gout et sans succes," are sufficient proof.

The British element of the community is largely resident in the towns, and is generally engaged in trade or in professional pursuits; but in the eastern provinces the bulk of the farmers are English or German; the German farmers being found in the district between King William's Town and East London, and on the Cape Peninsula.

The professional, commercial and industrial occupations employ about 4th of the white population.

It is a striking fact that Ammianus, though a professional soldier, gives excellent pictures of social and economic problems, and in his attitude to the non-Roman peoples of the empire he is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus; his digressions on the various countries he had visited are peculiarly interesting.

In 1809 he relinquished his professional work in London, and rendered meritorious services to the wounded from Coruna, who were brought to the Haslar hospital at Portsmouth.

In Edinburgh he did not earn great local professional success; and, it must be confessed, he was not appreciated as he deserved.

Some of them played the part of professional jesters (like the later buffoons and court fools), and kept collections of witticisms ready for use at their patrons' table; others relied upon flattery, others again condescended to the most degrading devices (Plutarch, De adulatore, 23; De educatione puerorum, 17).

There are also various small professional schools and private normal schools.

But it would seem that the king paid even more attention to another military reformthe increase of the number of the professional fighting class, the thegnhood as it was now called.

Henry developed as far as he was able the system of scutage (q.v.) which his grandfather had apparently invented; by this the vassal compounded for his forty days personal service by paying money, with which the king could hire professional soldiers.

Meanwhile he had acquired no small military reputation, had collected a large body of professional soldiers whose experience was to be invaluable to him in the continental war, and had taught his army the new tactics which were to win Crecy and Poitiers.

The Kurirs, a wandering and thieving tribe, the Kamais, professional burglars, and the Baruds, cattle-stealers and highwaymen, are notorious among the criminal classes.

He could not have become suddenly blind to the fallacy of the expectations derived from such a course; and all his life it had been his distinction to look above the transient and trafficking expedients of the professional politician.

Beginning to practise in 1834, Juarez speedily rose to professional distinction, and in the stormy political life of his time took a prominent part as an exponent of liberal views.

The restraints of a professional career were not suited to Locke.

The Shaftesbury connexion must have helped to save Locke from those idols of the " Den " to which professional life and narrow experience is exposed.

Estimable in private life, he was highly susceptible in professional matters, and hence failed to keep on terms with his contemporaries.

Any Lapp who had attained to manhood could in ordinary circumstances consult the drum for himself, but in matters of unusual moment the professional wizard (naid, noide or noaide) had to be called in.

The Papuans build excellent canoes and other boats, and in some districts there are professional boat-builders of great skill, the best craft coming from East Cape and the Louisiades.

By birth and marriage he was a Southerner, and the citizens of Norfolk counted on his throwing in his lot with them; but professional pride, and affection for the flag under which he had served for more than fifty years, held him true to his allegiance; he passionately rejected the proposals of his fellow-townsmen, and as it was more than hinted to him that his longer stay in Norfolk might be dangerous, he hastily quitted that place, and offered his services to the government at Washington.

Mahan, though shorter, has a greater value from the professional point of view, by reason of the critical appreciation of Farragut's services.

Besides the private practice of his profession, he contributed largely to medical knowledge by the publication of several books, mainly on the anatomy of the pancreas and the abdominal viscera, by papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and in professional journals, and by editing for a time the Quarterly Medical Journal.

But on his next visit to England in 1619 he brought with him an attestation to his orthodoxy and high professional standing, signed by the lord deputy and the members of the privy council, which, together with his own demeanour in a private conference with the king, so influenced the latter that he nominated Usher to the vacant see of Meath, of which he was consecrated bishop in 1621.

He now became a professional writer of speeches or pleas (Xoyoypb40s) for the law courts, sometimes speaking himself.

Wars were conducted by professional soldiers whose troops were chiefly mercenaries, and who were usually regarded by the politicians either as instruments or as enemies.

The professional class was 131,035, the domestic 219,418, and the commercial had risen from 83,173 in 1891 to 97,889 In 1901.

The influence of the professional literary class kept the clan spirit alive with their elaborate genealogies, and in their poems they only pandered to the vanity and vices of their patrons.

The development of higher education, without a corresponding advance of technical education, has created an intellectual class, comprising many men of letters, and several painters, musicians and sculptors, though none of great eminence; it also tends to produce many aspirants to official or professional careers, who find employment difficult to obtain.

Gaining by means of their professional skill as physicians a high rank in the society of the Moslem world, the Nestorian scholars soon made Bagdad familiar with the knowledge of Greek philosophy and science which they possessed.

During the Revolution he quietly performed his professional duties, taking no part in politics, although he possessed the faculty of ingratiating himself with those in authority.

Gail imagined that there was an organized conspiracy to belittle his learning and professional success, and there was a standing quarrel between him and his literary opponents.

Bee-appliance manufacturers are not eligible for membership of its council, nor are those who make bee-keeping their main business; thus no professional jealousies can possibly arise.

The Detroit Board of Commerce, organized in 1903, brought into one association the members of three former bodies, making a compact organization with civic as well as commercial aims. The board has brought into active co-operation nearly all the leading business men of the city and many of the professional men.

The articles mentioned in the edict, which is chiefly interesting as giving their relative values at the time, include cereals, wine, oil, meat, vegetables, fruits, skins, leather, furs, foot-gear, timber, carpets, articles of dress, and the wages range from the ordinary labourer to the professional advocate.

I don't want things to be professional – not for you here and not between us.

Exactly. Your attitude is professional.

However, his professional attire somehow didn't fit in the shabby office.

The details were too humiliating and this wasn't something she wanted to discuss with anyone – not even a professional.

Donnie needs a prolonged dose of professional help and an environment absent the stress he's been living under.

You look nice – casual, but professional.

He has been apprised of any institution-wide issues that the professional body report has identified.

The greater teachers' level of autonomy in selecting their professional development opportunities, the greater the outcomes they derived.

Such a system will have a profound influence on the professional autonomy of the physician and of the autonomy of the patient.

The salary increase was commensurate with each professional membership grade.

They will make your party come alive with excitement while still maintaining a professional demeanor and not relying on cheesy antics and props.

The news of the discovery was disseminated through conferences, academic and professional journals.

There was an emphasis on teamwork that crosses old professional boundaries to deliver seamless care.

Three modes of operation and storage, optimum portability, and image storage are critical requirements for the professional photographer.

The professional writer has to undergo many sad vicissitudes.

Those kinds of but it isn't Derek barch Aaron inherent within professional.

In general, they will to continue to use professional firms of accountants to prepare these accounts.

I am pleased to make my base the college of traditional acupuncture with their totally professional approach to Holistic Therapies.

All the TV ads are produced by a professional film making Company.

A ' manual worker ' is an employe whose duties are not mainly administrative, professional, technical or clerical.

Media organizations preferred to recruit knowledgeable all-rounders who could be taught broadcasting or writing skills in a professional environment.

The number of professional musicians and interested amateurs increased.

It actually took nearly 17 minutes, because although they were professional terrorists, they were still only amateur pilots.

Camera shake looks plain amateurish, and we all know the ' professional look ' is the holy grail of any aspiring amateur.

WebTrends Analysis Suite, Standard Edition (formerly Professional Suite) provides the valuable web analytics you need for your single server web site.

They are introduced to the process of animation by a professional animator.

A fractured ankle saw him quit The Posh and drift away from the professional game.

There are now over 3, 000 alphabetical entries providing antiquarian as well as technical and professional information.

However, when my father returned to Sligo later in a professional capacity to conduct an election, that editor made an abject apology.

But the Friday night crowd remained appreciative of what was a professional and honed performance.

Its mission is " to foster a greater appreciation for trees and to promote the research, technology and practice of professional arboriculture " .

A local firm of professional arborists who require no volunteer labor whilst they are on site is carrying out work.

Consult your inspecting architect about the design of the notice board and do not be afraid to call upon the skills of professional designers.

The Library for the time being has six professional archivists on its staff, more than at any time in its history.

We have discovered some talented artists who, with further training, could become professional.

The defense says that Dando was probably killed by a professional assassin.

I set out here the report of the Ombudsman's independent professional nursing assessor.

This is probably easier to do in areas that have professional associations or qualifications.

Professional dive guides become finely attuned to this sort of diving.

A professional auctioneer donates an evening of his time.

Any specialism within these disciplines will be considered; a professional qualification in clinical audiology would be an advantage.

The A77 was designed to fill the needs of the serious audiophile and the professional recording studios.

Professional tattoo machines, supplies, inks, needles and accessories supplied including, autoclaves and ultrasonics for equipment cleaning and sterilization.

Internal mechanisms such as the shutter unit and mirror balancer have also been designed for the maximum durability required of professional cameras.

Make easy money, be a certified, professional bartender.

After leaving college he played professional baseball, but was forced to quit due to an injury.

Once you've mastered the basics of Photoshop Elements, this is the book to further develop your skills to get professional results!

For the last few years, I have been trying to get myself in position to realize my dream of playing professional basketball.

You can make your own beanbags just like the professional manufacturers do.

Seek advice from a professional beautician who specializes in bridal makeup.

This person cannot be a professional legal representative who has been employed to act on the student's behalf.

As used in professional skin clinics, this stainless steel blackhead remover is the most effective way of removing blackhead remover is the most effective way of removing blackheads from the pores.

But scores of city merchants and professional men were then meeting daily at that hour to plead for Pentecostal blessings.

Find out how you can direct the work of your professional body.

Professional boxing bouts, already reduced to 10 per cent of pre war figures will be further reduced.

The years of professional boxing have taken their toll.

Amateur contests can be over four two-minute or three three-minute rounds while professional championship boxing is over twelve three-minute rounds.

Kantara Limited was established in 1996 and has since continued to develop a unique brand of professional consultancy coupled with personal service.

The third main observation from this research is the importance of the factors predicting professional burnout for Greek SEN teachers.

Professional Development The Association arranges a two day course for new bursars every year, together with seminars on topical subjects.

Some players had professional caddies; others had wives, girlfriends, brothers or dads.

The Section also provides a cadre of experts on whom the Society can call for professional advice.

Powers carefully analyzes Clemens ' writing prowess, noting both strengths and weaknesses with professional candor.

John was invited to use CIRCA with Kate, a professional caregiver at the unit.