Sentence examples for idea of generation from inspiring English sources

On BBC Radio 4's Womens' Hour, they discussed the idea of "Generation Sensible", asking whether "the current crop of twenty-somethings" is "cleaner-living than previous generations".

Then, in 1989, a hotshot Toronto agent sold the idea of Generation X to both a Canadian and an American publisher.

Again, the idea of generation of the unique service reply is based on timers and will not lead to a deadlock.

On the other hand, I'm as frightened as anyone by the idea of generations growing up who have never known waged income, or who might actually choose a life on welfare over an attempt to look for work.

The passage of social responsibility from one generation to another is always a fascinating interplay of the inherited and the novel; this book shows how, in the early nineteenth century, the very idea of generations resonated with new meaning in the United States.

And in this review and invention of past scenes that are imagined in various forms, the children frame the idea of generations as a narrative and temporal construct (as well as a biological one) of genealogy, as a form of resistance to their legacies and, finally, as a formal operation of timelessness.

[10] introduced the idea of generations, and suggested coding only over packets of the same generation.

Yet the idea of spontaneous generation died hard.

And Deb has what can only be called an unhealthy obsession with the idea of that generation being gone.

While both supported the idea of spontaneous generation, Italian abbot and physiologist Lazzaro Spallanzani maintained that life could never spontaneously generate from dead matter.

The idea of a generation beneath you facing a narrower world than the one you knew yourself: that's certainly one definition of despair.