She sheepishly admitted that she felt uncomfortable with the accomplishment-generation process.
This year, more Democratic candidates seemed to apologize for the health-care law — notwithstanding its imperfections, their party's greatest accomplishment in generations, the fulfillment of a century-long dream — than to proclaim it.
That its benefits to society may be so profound that Democrats can use it as a badge of accomplishment for generations, as they have with Social Security and Medicare.
I for one am very proud of the accomplishments of my generation, be it greater racial tolerance, gay liberation, protecting the environment, empowering women or opposing unjust wars.
But that assumption undervalues the remarkable accomplishment of a founding generation and endangers the future of republic.
Perhaps even to exceed the accomplishments of the previous generation.
None of this detracts from his accomplishment here, for which generations of readers will be grateful.
The paintings are handsome, but they don't improve much on the accomplishments of the "pictures generation" of artists, working when McDermott & McGough were immersed in Victoriana.
One of the most prominent black lawyers of his generation, whose accomplishments were overshadowed by corruption at HUD during his tenure as its secretary in the Reagan administration, he was 78.
Who could complain about massacring virtual Jerries when to raise such objections would be to condemn our grandparents' generation, whose accomplishments we were routinely called upon to observe with poppies and stern minutes of silence?
Their once-fashionable attack on musical accomplishment has meant two generations of fans growing up believing that the notion of a powerful sax solo or a non-processed rhythm track has become an abstract concept.
