Sentence examples for built over generations from inspiring English sources

It's us squandering the civilisational capital that we've built over generations.

By the most generous standards it is a serious lapse if not a betrayal of the editorial professionalism on which the BBC's reputation has been built over generations.

And many said one conviction, even of such a prominent defendant, could not erode a wall of cynicism built over generations.

"When the so-called civilized community, with all its might, pounces on a small country, and ruins infrastructure that has been built over generations – well, I don't know, is this good or bad?" Mr. Putin said.

Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, in particular, has been scathing about Western intervention in Libya, comparing Resolution 1973 to "a medieval call to the Crusades" and saying "the so-called civilized community, with all its might, pounces on a small country, and ruins infrastructure that has been built over generations".

According to John Ashton, formerly the top climate-change official at the Foreign Office, the BBC's coverage of last week's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was "a betrayal of the editorial professionalism on which the BBC's reputation has been built over generations".

And whatever school existed wasn't triggered by a single work or artist, or the sudden arrival of artists like Fabritius or Paulus Potter, but was built over several generations.

This 500-work collection, which will be auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris on June 17 and 18, was built over two generations by the Vérité family, whose Galerie Carrefour was frequented by curators and artists alike, Picasso included.

"This will get built over a generation," said Robert Yaro, president of the Regional Plan Association, said of the railyards project.

The project, to be built over a generation, would include a range of unusual environmental features, like heavy use of solar energy and geothermal wells.

Their plans are far grander — two million square feet of space to be built over a generation with price tags of over $1 billion — and they have proposed more ambitious plans to incorporate innovative environmental measures.