Sentence examples for abandoned generation from inspiring English sources

In Ireland tower houses and castles remained in use until after the Glorious Revolution, when events led to a dramatic shift in land ownership and a boom in the building of Palladian country houses; in many cases using timbers stripped from the older, abandoned generation of castles and tower houses.

"This would amount to abandoning generations of loyal Chargers fans".

He switched parties to get elected, abandoning generations of Democratic ties.

In our last conversation, he bitterly complained that the community that inherited the advances he helped make, who lived integrated lives as gay Americans, who went on to fight for marriage equality and against discrimination in the military, whether or not they had been infected, had abandoned his generation and forgotten the events that had shaped them.

The parameter n is the size of the population and the parameter P a is the fraction of eggs to be abandoned each generation.

And as labels abandoned every generation beyond the youngest to snag profits, we practically lost whole genres of music such as classical and true jazz.

But with all the dream destinations in the world that I have yet to conquer -- drinking wine in Italy, scuba diving off the coast of Australia, trekking to the North Pole -- why am I hung up on visiting a tiny country best known for warfare and which my family abandoned a generation ago?

While suburban offices will continue to exist, some corporations can re-occupy city centers that they abandoned two generations ago.

The west of the island is completely uninhabited; there are just a bare handful of bothies, abandoned for generations.

"There is no clear and unambiguous law that would have given purchasers fair notice that the modern state of Cambodia claims ownership of everything a long-defunct regime made and then abandoned 50 generations ago".

Sally Hunt, the UCU general secretary, says the Government is abandoning a generation who will find themselves on the dole, along with sacked teaching staff.