Sentence examples for launched a generation from inspiring English sources

A huge hit with 80s teenagers, it launched a generation of teen idols (collectively known as the Brat Pack) and became a reference-point for misunderstood adolescents everywhere.

During a recent visit Mr. Sachs and his studio manager attempted to show off a scale model of the Saturn rocket that launched a generation of men to the Moon.

Camden Yards launched a generation of so-called retro-classic ballparks, a style to which both of New York's new stadiums conform, even though they look vastly different from each other.

John Osborne's play went on to be produced at London's Royal Court the following year, launched a generation of playwrights collectively called "the angry young men", and marked the Sloane Square theatre out as the place to watch out for exciting new drama.

The response, the National Defense Education Act of 1958, launched a generation of scientists who found employment in the baby-boomer-propelled expansion of academic and industrial research of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Vogel's screenings and seminars primed the pump and stimulated interest in a broad range of filmmakers, but it didn't launch a generation.

At the time she was a member of a workshop that met at the Lamb pub in Lamb's Conduit Street, and which has since become famous for launching a generation of poets: Don Paterson, Ruth Padel, Matthew Sweeney, Vicki Feaver and Michael Donaghy, among others.

(MF) Back to the future IBM survived the death of the mainframe at the end of the 1980s, and has now launched a new generation of machines for the web-serving generation.

Heins launched a new generation of BlackBerry phones in January, but the innovation left consumers cold.

Guess who Mr. Coppola would put in "The Outsiders," his 1983 teen-rebel movie that launched a whole generation of future dreamboats?

In July, the giant microprocessor manufacturer launched a new generation processor line that featured competitive prices and reduced power consumption.