"occupation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If skilled mechanical trades can be considered a reasonable alternative occupation for slave traders, then it appears that interregional slave traders are made better off, at least in monetary terms.
- The social factors are also similar, including high rural populations, small landholdings and limited opportunities for alternative occupations.
- The report also said that women's traditional livelihoods as subsistence farmers or small producers have been undermined by foreign subsidized agriculture or foreign imports but, as women, they face cultural barriers when looking for alternative occupations.
- Whoever was minding him that morning had to engage his attention in an alternative occupation - like eating.
- Many shootouts involving lawmen were caused by disputes arising from these alternative occupations, rather than the lawman's attempts to enforce the law.
- And one cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation - lettuce farming, say - would offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by instalments.
- But Hi-T joined the virtually unanimous sense both here and at the Kansas City gathering that the time had come for gang members to stop killing one another, if some alternative occupation or means of self-expression could be found.
- However in the later Colonial period Muslims increased by conversion chiefly among the "outcaste" Hindu groups of southern interior Malabar as Muslim traders turned inland in search of alternative occupations to commerce.
- He'd been running through his mind the alternative occupations now open to him.
- By the time I reached college age, I'd given up all hope of flying like Superman, but I was never able to develop a burning desire for an alternative occupation.
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