Sentence examples for generations preceding from inspiring English sources

In just a few generations preceding it, every fixed point that had oriented the world for thousands of years began to wobble.

The elderly who expected to be cared for in their old age, as in the generations preceding them, are finding that their busy children are chasing their own careers and ambitions and have no time, inclination or money for them, said Mr. Dey, who said he and his affluent neighbors in the Suvidha community were not in that situation.

When comparing the relevant Gaelic pedigrees, Matheson noted that they were inconsistent in the generations preceding Leod's great-grandfather.

It has always been the case that aspiring poets and writers have more in common with one another than they do with poets and writers of the generations preceding theirs -- many of whom are financially secure enough to give little thought to issues like student funding.

The YOLO Pages also refocuses our attention on Generation Y authors, whose native cultural paradigm--metamodernism--stands in stark contrast to the milieu of the three generations preceding them, which generations now seek (through some of their most institutionally patronized scions) the colonization of a sphere of literature they sadly have had almost nothing to do with.

Because of the possibility of "later" generations preceding "earlier" ones, as noted in the case of households of size 3 above, and because of ignoring the saturation effect present in equation (22) in terms of the actual generation times within households, this approximation will overestimate the time taken for individuals to become infected in the household.

Two antibiotic-free generations preceded selection experiments, and the experimental media lacked antibiotics.

In such individuals, the original cause of the defect must have occurred in the generation preceding its appearance.

She decided to set down some memories, or stories told by friends and relations, of a small country town in the generation preceding her own.

She saw Edward's affair with Mrs. Simpson as part of a generational fluctuation in the morals of the Royal Family: In the last four generations of the royal Hanoverian House now called Windsor, each generation has swung, pendulum-like, away from the generation preceding.

Analyzing European data, Bhati and Hansen (2012), Gallego (2009) and Wass (2007), analyzing Costa-Rican data, Remmer (2010), analyzing U.S. data, Cebula and Toma (2006), and analyzing Canadian data, Blais et al. (2004) find that political participation among baby boomers and the generation preceding it to be substantially higher than the generations which followed them.