Sentence examples for been held for generations from inspiring English sources
In the South, ramp festivals have been held for generations.
In certain Arab countries, power had been held for generations by the Sunni, even while a majority of the population might have been Shia.
It is a sect-like, highly ideological state that runs prison camps holding hundreds of thousands, where family members can be held for generation after generation if a single ancestor has been labelled an "enemy of the people".
Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, will today call on her SNP counterpart to "prove her constructive credentials" by accepting that another referendum should not be held for a generation.
Beetles were held for at least one generation under laboratory conditions that allow continuous growth and reproduction (16:8 L D, 25 27°C) before they were taken from stock cultures for use in experiments.
Three separate report back workshops were held, for the purposes of both member checking and generation of recommendations.
The women of Afghanistan have been held silent for generations, and now they are ready to be heard.
He had been held responsible for a fourth-generation iPhone prototype that had gone missing.
The food at Neal's Deli is resolutely everyday and American — like breakfast biscuits stuffed with egg and sausage — but the eggs are steamed tender with a touch of pepper and parsley, and the wide, crisp biscuits are mixed from high-fat local buttermilk and organic flour from a nearby mill that's been held by the same family for nine generations.
Score is kept and grudges held for generations.
