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Lawyer in sentence

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So I'm just a lawyer, I look at this range of numbers, and I say it's fair for me to say it's .05
And the first one is a college-educated professional, creative type, manager, engineer, doctor, lawyer, that kind of worker.
Today, 35 percent of Americans practice cognitively demanding professions, not only to the professions proper like lawyer or doctor or scientist or lecturer, but many, many sub-professions having to do with being a technician, a computer programmer.
It's also been the upgrading of tasks like lawyer and doctor and what have you that have made demands on our cognitive faculties.
And in 1939, a lawyer, Sydney Kaye, started something called Broadcast Music Inc.
My dad was a lawyer.
One of them wants to be a preacher, one of them wants to be a firefighter, and one of the girls says she's going to be a lawyer.
Think about a lawyer who spends part of his time at school events for his kids talking to other parents.
He's much more likely to bring in new clients for his firm than a lawyer who never leaves his office.
We secretly filmed some of the family of the former chief minister and a lawyer as they told our undercover investigator exactly how these dubious deals are done using such companies.
It can be your lawyer's or your service provider's, and it's not for the public record anyway.
He was a lawyer and a writer, and his eyes twinkled when he laughed and they squeezed tight when I kissed him and at some point in the evening, our zero date became a first date.
Fear of being an unemployed philosopher led me to become a lawyer, and as I discovered, lawyering didn't quite fit.
I drifted into being a lawyer.
In fact, Amel's sister Lamia overcame her grief, went to law school, and practices as a lawyer in Algiers today, something which is only possible because the armed fundamentalists were largely defeated in the country.
So the first one is made by a member of parliament, the second one is made by a spiritual leader, and the third one was actually the defendants' lawyer when the girl was fighting for her life and she passed away.
And I said, "Veronica, actually, the specialist I'm talking about is someone I call a community health worker, someone who, if it's okay with you, can come to your home and try to understand what's going on with those water leaks and that mold, trying to help you manage those conditions in your housing that I think are causing your symptoms, and if required, that specialist might refer you to another specialist that we call a public interest lawyer, because it might be that your landlord isn't making the fixes he's required to make."
It was an achievement worthy of Mahatma Gandhi, conducted with the shrewdness of a lawyer and the idealism of a saint.
There are all sorts of things that we do and think that we're willing to tell our physician or our lawyer or our psychologist or our spouse or our best friend that we would be mortified for the rest of the world to learn.
But I find that with my job, that the rewards far outweigh the risks, and as many risks as I take, my clients take far greater risks, because they have a lot more to lose if their cases go unheard, or worse, if they're penalized for having me as their lawyer.
As a lawyer, I try to be very strong for all my clients, because that's very important to me, but seeing her, how broken and very weak as she was, was very difficult.
Now, this is extremely significant, because this is the first time that a victim of domestic violence in Afghanistan was being represented by a lawyer, a law that's been on the books for years and years, but until Sahar, had never been used.
So there we were at the Supreme Court arguing in front of 12 Afghan justices, me as an American female lawyer, and Sahar, a young woman who when I met her couldn't speak above a whisper.
A few months ago, a South African lawyer visited me in my office and he said, "I wanted to meet you.
He charged five bucks a head to come see the nun bun till he got a cease-and-desist from Mother Teresa's lawyer.
I'm a civil rights lawyer, and I've seen some horrible things in the world.
So for me, as a lawyer, of course, my first reaction was to think, well, of course we've got to change all the laws.
Now, I read Peter Singer's book in 1980, when I had a full head of lush, brown hair, and indeed I was moved by it, because I had become a lawyer because I wanted to speak for the voiceless, defend the defenseless, and I'd never realized how voiceless and defenseless the trillions, billions of nonhuman animals are.
And I began to work as an animal protection lawyer.
Yeah, so, like, basically, I'm planning on becoming a lawyer.
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