Sentence examples for held for generations from inspiring English sources

In the South, ramp festivals have been held for generations.

In certain Arab countries, power had been held for generations by the Sunni, even while a majority of the population might have been Shia.

Their farm, which the family had held for generations, was destroyed by the Islamic State, whose militants killed five thousand Yazidis in the first wave.

While the brutal events have intensified the residential apartheid of Northern Ireland and reinforced suspicions held for generations, they may have also discredited and weakened the die-hard forces working against the fulfillment of the peace settlement.

Score is kept and grudges held for generations.

The courts have consistently held for generations that this bedrock prohibition applies to NOT just Congress, but ALL elements of the government, to include the United States Air Force.

It is a sect-like, highly ideological state that runs prison camps holding hundreds of thousands, where family members can be held for generation after generation if a single ancestor has been labelled an "enemy of the people".

Despite the psychic fissures slicing up the landscape, there's no doubt that the center will continue to hold for generations to come.

"The family of Turing, originally French, settled in the barony of Tourin, in Forfarshire, which they held for several generations.

It is hard to overstate the romance Esalen held for Beat Generation heroes like Jack Kerouac, who embraced it, or for spiritual seekers who followed.

Also, Democrats are desperately trying retake the Senate in 2016, and Rubio just abandoned a Senate seat that the Republican party could have held for a generation.