Sentence examples for generation paid from inspiring English sources

A generation "paid the price of not being cheap imitators; they didn't get the audience they deserved".

"I think for my generation, paid TV isn't gonna go away," he said.

It's also one of the reasons that they pay more in tuition for one course than students in my generation paid for a whole year -- if we paid tuition at all.

Ben Jealous, former president of the NAACP, wrote an article on why Bill Clinton needed to apologize for his comments to Black Lives Matters protesters noting how this generation paid the cost for policies Clinton implemented.

Fifty years ago, my parents' generation paid to acquire and protect public lands at Point Reyes National Seashore when the park, north of San Francisco, was authorized by Congress in 1962.

Will the older generation pay for educating a younger generation that looks less like itself?

Social Security is, basically, a system in which each generation pays for the previous generation's retirement.

The "sandwich generation" – paying care costs for their children and their parents – are particularly hard hit, he said.

It's true that Social Security is mainly a system in which each generation pays for the previous generation's retirement, in the expectation that it will receive the same treatment from the next generation.

I said that in the past it had benefited from the fact that each generation paying in to the system was bigger than the generation that preceded it, and that this luxury would be ending in the years ahead.

Fortunately, the UK has a pension system based on partnership: between the state and individuals, between employee and employer, and between the generations, with the in-work generation paying for the state pensions of those who have retired.