Sentence examples for generation earned from inspiring English sources

After the Army and a stint in graduate school, Wilbur — like most poets of his generation — earned his living as a college professor.

The 3rd generation iPad scored 791 in Geekbench where the 4th generation earned a 1757, besting the iPhone 5's 1571 score.

Belgium's golden generation earned the chance to live up to their billing as they reached a first World Cup quarter-final for 28 years with an extra-time win over the USA in Salvador.

The World War II generation earned degrees, opened businesses, fought for civil rights, and grew the world's strongest economy.

The dynamic Emmy Award-winning character actor who worked in film, theater and TV ("Picket Fences," "King," "Roots: The Next Generation") earned a lead actor nomination for 1972's family drama "Sounder," in which he played the loving sharecropper father Nathan Lee Morgan.

In Asia, there is a saying that the first generation earns the money, the second enjoys it, a third loses it.

Kohler is an exception to the old saw that the first generation earns the money and the third fritters it away.

Speaking of his children's migration, Father Chen commented: 'when the younger generation earn money in the cities, old people like us will have a better life at home'.

Societal health can be assessed by a handful of factors: economic mobility (is the current generation earning more than their parents did?), upward mobility (the rate of which an individual can improve their own socioeconomic status), productivity (how efficiently one can earn income) and lastly, whether they have sufficient access to the resources and tools required to advance one's position.

"'Your generation earns a quarter, spends a quarter and then borrows another quarter at 25percentt interest.' ".

Lynch was also a member of the high school fraternity Alpha Omega Upsilon, and learned to play the bongos while frequenting a nightclub popular with the Beat Generation, earning the nickname "Bongo Dave".