Sentence examples for hold for generations from inspiring English sources

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

This is where movements take hold for generations.

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.

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.

Newt's brand of conservative 'idea generation' is designed, first and foremost, to get lots of attention - which it has - and to make the values we've held for generations seem stale, rigid, and somehow less exciting than the futuristic corporate oligarchy of tomorrow.

In his recent book, "Conscience of a Conservative," Flake argues that the Republican Party "lurched like a tranquilized elephant from a broad consensus on economic philosophy and free trade that had held for generations to an incoherent and often untrue mash of back-of-the-envelope populist slogans".

Livelihoods have been on hold -- life has been on hold -- for generations.

So all that my heirs will have to do is remember the day I die -- a date that I assume my family will remember and hold solemn for generations.