Sentence examples for forefathers- from inspiring English sources

"Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be fucking gassed".

Zencey's retraction begins: "Seven score and ten years ago, the forefathers of this media institution brought forth to its audience a judgment so flawed, so tainted by hubris, so lacking in the perspective history would bring, that it cannot remain unaddressed in our archives".

Poet Benjamin Zephaniah turned down his OBE nearly a decade ago because "it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised".

The wealthy owed their fortunes to their forefathers and the Congressman who wrote the loopholes for their tax accountants to exploit.

This has been a fraught issue in Egypt at least since Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin claimed in 1977 that Israel's forefathers built the pyramids.

Should he pay for the sins of his forefathers?

The absence of the polar ice cap and the submersion of Venice will have been normalised; nobody will think of these as live issues, no one will spend their time reproaching their forefathers, there'll be no moral dimension at all.

Ignoring the Bible, which says that David was buried elsewhere "with his forefathers", Jews and Muslims later embraced the Crusaders' tale to press their own claims to the hill.

It was thanks to this spiritual unity that our forefathers for the first time and forevermore saw themselves as a united nation.

This may shock you (after all, as Hugh FW has observed, the pancake is essentially the forefather of the Yorkshire pudding), but it is not really a savoury item.

Mr Bolkestein is a forefather of Dutch Euroscepticism (Mr Wilders started his political career in the VVD).