Sentence examples for do it for posterity from inspiring English sources

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Do it for posterity.

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When Christopher St John published the lectures, she did it for posterity, and now I wonder whether posterity is finally starting to pay her back.

"Since you have this wonderful green urban space, how do you keep it for posterity so that it's wonderful for future generations?" she said.

We're trying not to do this for posterity.

"I like to do things for posterity," said Steven Bluttal, a Halston biographer and the curator of an exhibition of Ron Galella photographs, which will open next Thursday.

He is better remembered for the language of his speeches than his politics they were riddled with mixed metaphors ("Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud"), malapropisms and other unfortunate turns of phrase ("Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?" ).

Alas, mediocrity does not make for posterity.

When members of earlier generations wanted to capture images of events they wished to preserve for posterity, they did it by committing the event to memory, if a private sort of event, or to film, if a non-private event.

"What do we want for posterity?" Meanwhile, the council must now decide what to do with the six properties, which are situated in the densely packed neighborhoods surrounding Wangumbaug Lake, known locally as Coventry Lake.

I do not write for posterity ..

I do not write for posterity - in any case the outlook for that is somewhat uncertain.

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