by vocation

He is a public health engineer by profession and by vocation.

The English are thieves by nature, and pirates by vocation.

For by vocation, on vacations, the married Tiburon is a bachelor writer.

As a young woman she was a schoolteacher by vocation, an occupation that left a permanent mark on her attitude to music and life.

A lawyer by vocation, he had an enduring interest in sports, although he did not play football.

Maymón was an entrepreneur by vocation, and he would not be stopped.

Clare East was not a teacher by vocation, she felt no innate revulsion at the corruption of the young.

By vocation, he is a seeker of proof.

You ought to know that by vocation and specialization I am a miniaturizer.

We have a small vanguard of teachers by vocation and a much bigger majority who shouldn't be in this profession at all."

Throughout his life, by training and by vocation, he was always part of the orthodox branch of this school.

He was no child, and he had been prepared by vocation andtraining for such grim work.

From 1934 the library of the Institute was headed south veins - a teacher by profession, poet by vocation.

By vocation, he was an economist.

He was a physician by vocation and a democrat and socialist by philosophy.

(Bill is a butcher by vocation and a killer by inclination.)

He was by vocation, also a Barnabite monk.

His father, by vocation a master-glazier, was organist, church choir leader and musical pedagogue.

His father, Pasquale Pappano, was by vocation a singing teacher.

"I am a poet by vocation."

By vocation, he was a scholar, who dedicated the last decades of his life to 'searching the Scriptures'.

A writer by vocation, a schoolteacher by profession, Miles maintains the posture of an initiate when it comes to wine.

He's a landscaper by vocation, he says, a cyclist, photographer and musician by avocation.

Trained pianist, conductor by vocation, he studied singing, composition and orchestra and choir conducting.

Moş Teacă has lived all his life in the army, having been a drummer boy by vocation.