Sentence examples for Happy decades from inspiring English sources

Under a different monarch with a more reformist bent, the empire might have survived for many happy decades more.The shots that killed the heir-apparent to the imperial throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo on June 28th 1914 unleashed the destruction of the Habsburg empire, the most advanced multicultural and multi-ethnic state that Europe had ever seen.

In four happy decades as a rock writer for The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ms. Scott, who died on Monday at 92, braved mud and mosh pits, foul weather and fouler language, "a drop of bleached blond and pink polyester in a roiling sea of blue denim and black leather," as The Philadelphia Inquirer once described her.

What I wish is that someone had explained to me, in that first happy decade: "You are having a wonderful time with your angelic infants now, but one day they will change and be inexplicably horrible, and you have to be prepared for that and roll with it".

In 1780 the Priestleys moved to Birmingham and spent a happy decade surrounded by old friends, until they were forced to flee in 1791 by religiously motivated mob violence in what became known as the Priestley Riots.

In at least half the decades, politics was the most important thing that happened, though to be fair in the happier decades politics took a back seat.

King of the City questions how happy these decades of merciless consumerism have left us and probes the constructs of authenticity, as to what real London actually is - from the old hippies of Ladbroke Grove to the generation who now tell us how hard they've worked to get on Big Brother.

In addition, Davis downplayed her Hollywood goals: MGM promotional material in 1949 said that her "greatest ambition" was to have a "successful happy marriage"; decades later, in 1975, she would say, "I was never really a career woman but [became one] only because I hadn't found the man I wanted to marry.

More to the point, Happy New Decade.

Social activism is the key to a happy new decade.

Well, Jade Jagger and Kate Moss are happy to ignore decades of ethical campaigning and wear such a contentious product as fur – so we shouldn't expect too many to shed their plumages for anything other than reasons of fickle fashion.

But putting more men in prison cannot fully explain the lessening happiness of American women, because women in other industrialized countries – which do not lock up nearly as many of their men – have also become less happy in recent decades.