Sentence examples for bequeath a legacy from inspiring English sources
Like Augustus and everyone else, I would like to leave a mark upon the world and bequeath a legacy.
After all, aid should bequeath a legacy of trust and friendship between the UK and the rising powers of Africa and Asia, (who incidentally, we are going to need in future), but in this case that legacy has been, only temporarily, I hope, squandered.
We don't want to bequeath a legacy for future generations of a toxic environment". Such sentiments are echoed by the Labor Party, which had imposed a policy restricting uranium mining to just three locations in Australia at any one time when it led the federal government in the eighties.
It was only natural, therefore, that he bequeathed a legacy of suspicion to his colleagues and to everybody.
It is not permissible to go around bragging that your family came over on the Mayflower and that you are descended from generations of Throgmorton-Winthrops who bequeathed a legacy of good breeding and fine manners.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the adjacent quarter of Holbeck was the cradle of the industrial revolution in Leeds, home to trend-setting entrepreneurs ahead of the curve who bequeathed a legacy of fascinating buildings and legends.
Stagnating in the banality of her bourgeois existence, an imaginative woman stuck in the provinces with no meaningful occupation, she asks herself: "Why – why – did I ever marry?" Emma bequeathed a legacy of female Quixotes, afterimages of Bovarysme (a term Flaubert coined in his correspondence, though it acquired a more pathological connotation in the early 20th century).
"As well as bequeathing a legacy of pride and ambition, Liverpool set out a template for success which the rest of the UK can adapt and benefit from.
An increasing number of Mauritians are realising that – in a much-photographed world, where crystalline beaches and azure seas are two-a-penny – their colourful past has bequeathed a legacy that sets their pretty little island apart from the rest.
