Having served in the Napoleonic Wars, d'Urville was of the generation marked by defeat.
The second generation, marked by greed and corruption, largely destroyed all that the first had fought for.
By the time Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born in 1864, centuries of inbreeding had produced a generation marked by dwarfs.
Members of the "greatest generation", marked by conflict, they were strongly committed to a vision of social life framed in negotiation, mutual understanding and compromise.
By other accounts, they are a generation marked by creativity, flexibility, open-mindedness, a strong sense of social responsibility and concern for the environment.
Go there and you'll find new iPads (first generation) marked "Clearance" starting at $399, $100 less than the starting price for the iPad2.
In his determination to gain control and protect the Party, Xi may have generated a different kind of threat: he has pried apart internal fault lines and shaken the equilibrium that for a generation marked the nation's rise.
More than half (52%) of 8,000 people interviewed by the Halifax thought that renting rather than buying will become the norm within the next generation, marking an increase from 46% when the same question was asked in 2011.
He added that last year's 66% fall in coal generation marked the largest annual switch in fuel for power – even greater than the 33% decline in coal power during the 1984 miners' strike.
For many, the closing notes of "My Generation" marked the end of a quadrennial fascination with a range of sports that often fail to capture our imagination in those long, football-dominated non-Olympic years... which makes things difficult for those running and promoting pretty much every Olympic event besides tennis, football and boxing.
Yes, the millennial generation marks a shift toward plant-friendly work environments.
