Sentence examples for generation has worked from inspiring English sources

Jia Zhangke, the leading Chinese filmmaker of his generation, has worked in fiction and nonfiction, sometimes combining the two and invariably using the metaphorically charged spaces of the new China as ready-made film sets.

He represents the repudiation of everything that my generation has worked to secure for our nation and its people.

As part of the youth media movement, I am proud to say that our generation has worked extremely hard to create our own media.

And, the major point, of course, is that, in addition to his demonstrated integrity, Craig has been involved in several of the major legal-political cases of a generation, has worked in the Executive Branch in two Administrations, and is a brilliant practicing lawyer, but not a judge.

She's probably the most prepared person to be president of her generation, having worked with her husband, Bush and Obama.

How come, when the baby boom generation have worked for 45 years or more and have had their compulsory pension contributions deducted from their wages?

To the Editor: Far from being a resource-consuming bunch of slackers, members of the baby boom generation have worked hard and steadily for 40 years to pay the bills for themselves, their children and, yes, their parents in the Greatest Generation, an admirable group that nevertheless has taken much more money out of our social safety net than it ever put in.

The specter of the unraveling of the progress she and members of her generation have worked for decades to secure on women's rights, human rights and civil rights ― not to mention the decline of civil discourse and the evaporation facts as a thing ― has haunted her.

"I think my predecessors over multiple generations have worked hard to create the business that we have today and one of the aspects of that is we take our technology and deploy that in multiple sectors.

In words, in music, in film, successive generations have worked it over, made it their own, every artist or would-be artist finding in it something personal and something new.

The Bradys, he says, have coal in the veins and at least two generations have worked on the mine.