Sentence examples for in a previous generation from inspiring English sources

In a previous generation, this dispute would not have ended up in the legal system.

"American schools are not worse than they were in a previous generation.

A kind of fearlessness exists among the younger players that was not evident in a previous generation of Americans.

"All of a sudden, girls are having them" -- most did not in a previous generation -- and even among Reform Jews, the custom is less of an option.

In a previous generation, graduates often married non-graduates, because their choices tended to be driven by where they happened to live or work.

In a previous generation, people formed their identities in part out of those economic interests, through a trade union or on the factory floor.

We have been humiliated".In a previous generation men such as Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who became an Islamist radical, were indeed humiliated in prisons on the government's orders.

They see technology largely in terms of moving electrons and photons around—in much the same way that a previous generation viewed technology mainly in terms of tinkering with the molecular structure of alloys and chemicals.

He finds a "conspiracy of chattiness" rather than of silence, over a murder the whole town was in on.Mr Gamerro, who was born in 1962, departs from a previous generation's reverence for eyewitness testimony and memorialising the dead.

They discussed memes in the way that a previous generation might have dissected movies or an episode of a sitcom.

That, of course, may change, as it did in the late 1970s when a previous generation of Britons struggled through the so-called winter of discontent.