Most of the 90 members of the nobility were in the learned professions, and there was only one peasant and four " handwerkers " ( skilled artisans or craftsmen ).
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In general, they quickly became prosperous; many had entered the learned professions, and they built synagogues and hospitals in the southern portion of the city, where most of them resided.
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In this Western tradition, physicians are considered to be members of a learned profession, and enjoy high social status, often combined with expectations of a high and stable income and job security.
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However, as a woman, she was denied a license to practice law and therefore never officially became a lawyer until the Illinois law barring women from practicing the learned professions was overturned in 1881.
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In his speech, Burger observed wistfully that at one time the " learned professions " _ the church, medicine and the law _ were " considered something different from a trade ."
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Certainly it is not a learned profession, such as law or medicine, callings " requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation, " according to the dictionary, including conformance to established ethical principles.
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Practitioners of the learned professions, such as physicians and lawyers, are rarely referred to as " " sh + fu " ", and some members of such professions may indeed find such a term of address disrespectful.
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In conceiving its future course, the objectives enshrined in the Act 1969 emphasized that the new university would make provision for imparting education and promoting research in the humanities, learned professions, sciences, especially of applied nature and technology.
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Public officials, called " scribae ", that is to say, scribes, rose in rank from being mere recorders of facts and judicial proceedings, copiers and transcribers to a learned profession prominent in private and public affairs.
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Rising upward could be achieved a number of ways, such as by gaining wealth, by gaining skill in some department, by qualifying for a learned profession, by showing conspicuous valour, or by performing some service to the community.
