Sentence examples for generational wars from inspiring English sources

And, he said, with the United States fighting "generational wars," Trump and his outlandish comments could have real lasting effect.

Back in 1926, during the generational wars of the height of the Jazz Age, Mayor Jimmy Walker signed a series of administrative rules designed to not only help restrict the illegal sale of alcohol in New York speakeasies, but also to prevent the interracial co-mingling and dancing that was becoming increasingly common.

"For more than a decade," he observes, "we've heard one jeremiad after another about the coming cataclysm, as the world is awash in mass codgerdom, bankrupting future generations, overstressing the health care system, and generally feeding a generational war favoring the old and compromising the young".

A sea-change in the late-1960s waspurreded by an "uprising of the next generation; there was generational war for half a decade that culminated in terrorism in Germany, which was brutally eradicated".

The abject absence of contact between generations undoubtedly contributes to worries about a coming generational war pitting kids versus canes over scarce public resources.

Geraldine Bedell, editor of Gransnet, and Ed Howker, co-author of Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth, discuss whether a generational war really has broken out.

He could say the same about a generational war.

We are locked in a generational war, which will get worse before it gets better.

But these are symptoms of policy and political failure, not of a generational war.

The question isn't whether such talk will stir up generational war.

And he declared that Italy was in the midst of a "generational war".