Sentence examples for a generation as from inspiring English sources

The sinking of the Kursk illuminates the path that Russia has traveled in half a generation, as well as how far it has yet to go.

Such people are not always welcome, but then the older generation – even a generation as avant-garde as that which Rexroth and Duncan headed – seldom cheers the next, inevitably more wild one.

It was this hauteur and this sense of mission without contact beyond the protective society of the court that caused La Pléiade to shine so briefly and to become within a generation as dead as the Greek poets from whom they took their name.

He opposed any legislative plan that would address the problems that so agitated Northerners and Southerners, thus preventing Henry Clay from pushing ahead with another compromise plan that, he hoped, would settle the issue for at least a generation, as had the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

They will be amortized over the span of a generation, as is done for investments in the other infrastructures that make it possible for organizations to function effectively.

Many observers worry the GOP is similarly poised to risk losing Latinos for a generation — as happened in California — with Trump's harsh rhetoric against Mexicans as "rapists" and his plan to build a wall to block illegal immigration.

But what we must not do — both as a generation and as a nation — is to let our disillusion devolve into pessimism and laziness.

There are very few U.S. Presidents who have squandered as many once-in-a-generation opportunities as Barack Obama.

Now a generation watches as its housing wealth is vaporized.

The court repeatedly cited decisions on interracial marriage a generation ago as precedent.

Because now the debate has been settled for a generation, or as Alex Salmond has said, perhaps for a lifetime".