1.   He gave up a promising career in banking.

2.   He left a promising military career behind to join the priesthood.

3.   He sacrificed a promising career to look after his handicapped daughter.

4.   In Petah Tikva my wife had just started a promising academic career.

5.   Peter gave up a promising career in chemical engineering to become a priest.

6.   She gave up a promising career in advertising in order to look after her children.

7.   She was a rebel, who horrified her family by rejecting a promising career in law to become an actor.

8.   He handed in his notice at the bank and ruined his promising career.

9.   Often a son or daughter will have been on the brink of a promising career when they developed their first symptoms.