Sentence examples for action in a generation from inspiring English sources

We sent 1,253 people to jail in the largest civil disobedience action in a generation.

In August 1,253 people were arrested outside the White House during the largest civil disobedience action in a generation.

By bashing Waxman-Markey, they are aligning themselves with people who want to block the best opportunity for climate/energy action in a generation.

In 2000, she received the American Lung Association's President's Award for leadership towards "the toughest action in a generation to safeguard public health from the threats posed by air pollution".

Julius Genachowski, the F.C.C. chairman, called the commission's action "a once-in-a-generation overhaul of universal service, keeping faith with the nation's long commitment to connecting all Americans to communications services".

In what will be one of the largest civil disobedience actions in a generation, we will demand a Congress that will take immediate action to end the corruption of big money in our politics and ensure free and fair elections in which every American has an equal voice.

But it did so by means of a legal analysis that, far from insisting that any consideration of race was impermissible, did not even ask the justices to overturn the Bakke decision, the 1978 landmark ruling that by allowing race to be used as a "plus factor" ushered in a generation of affirmative action in public and private college admissions.

Rafael Lemaitre, the public affairs director for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under Obama, told The Hill that the Obama-era standard is the "most significant action taken in a generation" to protect American infrastructure.

The tense scene offered a bitter conclusion to a case that demonstrated how the long-ago actions of a generation steeped in radicalism and dissent can still excite deep passions, and defiance.

There are no drastically new ideas in Without Their Permission--instead the book serves as part reminder and part call-to-action to a generation that is in desperate need to hear them.

Back at the stadium, pundits say they expect watching Federer in action to inspire a generation of young tennis players.