Sentence examples for has stood for generations from inspiring English sources

Green hillsides stretch out behind Ruy Barretto's stone house and trains to China slip under the hill in the designated conservation area where his family home has stood for generations.

The buildings there had stood for generations.

"Our values have stood for generations," Mr. Shields said.

"Near revolutionary developments in advertising, media, marketing, technology and global trade have in the last two decades of the 20th century nearly obliterated walls that have stood for generations between nonwhites and the image of the American dream.

It is a good reminder for young or old of the recipes that have stood for generations.

More than any other historian of the past four generations, Barzun has stood for the seemingly contradictory ideas of scholarly rigor and unaffected enthusiasm.

Neither has stood for the presidency before.

The tower had stood for almost 1,000 years.

The record had stood for 40 years.

The imaginative National Museum of Cinema is housed in the Mole Antonelliana, a bizarre 19th-century "skyscraper," commissioned in 1863 as a synagogue, which has stood mostly empty for generations.

It took some research to confirm that an improbable answer was the right one: here in the South Bronx, less than two miles from Yankee Stadium, a network of old beer caves that had stood silent for generations.