Sentence examples for in the same generation as from inspiring English sources

"He's in the same generation as Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein.

"I would like to see my father, along with many Party members in the same generation, as models for Chinese officials today" he said.

BRANTLEY -- I guess you can't call it the young generation anymore, but we did have two musicals from authors in the same generation as Jeanine Tesori: Michael John LaChiusa's "Little Fish" and Ricky Ian Gordon's "My Life With Albertine".

Egoyan made his first film, Next of Kin, in 1984, when he was 24 – "I was very driven" – which roughly puts him in the same generation as Jim Jarmusch, Todd Haynes and the Coens.

Born in July 1971 in Camposampiero, a small town in the province of Padova, Dino had the misfortune to be born in the same generation as Roberto; only four years separate the pair.

A win in the Group One Lockinge Stakes would have been enough for the thousands drawn here, to extend Frankel's unbeaten record to 10 races and set him up for greater challenges ahead, so his five-length defeat of Excelebration, a very good horse with the bad luck to have been born in the same generation as Frankel, exceeded most expectations.

My mother-in-law, though of the same generation as my father, has found her Web niche with Snapfish, AOL, shorthand text messages, the odd emoticon and forwarded viral e-mail ("watch out if you eat bean sprouts").

Wright, born in 1916, was of the same generation as Philby.

Rahim, who visited Algeria only once as a child and who grew up in a bilingual household in a multiethnic neighborhood, is of the same generation as most of the people who were filling the streets of Tunis.

Bossa nova gained ground in the mid-50's, and as he came from the same generation as musicians in that genre, he befriended and learned from them.

We now have a facility unique in the world with an instrument that cannot be found anywhere else in Europe--that is, there are three other electron microscopes of the same generation as ours in the United States but each belongs to one department for one project.