Sentence examples for lifetime grew from inspiring English sources

Murray was chairman of the Steelworkers Organizing Committee until 1942, when he became president of its successor, the USWA, which in his lifetime grew to include 2,500 local unions.

The cellist and composer, who released only one full solo album, "World of Echo," during his short lifetime, grew up here, in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, acne-scarred and painfully shy.

Art, as Mr. Byrne sees it, can "filter real stuff or present it from a particular angle so it appears to function like a metaphor for something else"; and he's frequently used bits of reality as found material in his work: the song "Once in a Lifetime" grew out of preachers' sermons he'd heard on the radio; just as the people in "True Stories" have real-life antecedents in newspaper stories.

Unlike most other species, the green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) can, in a single lifetime, grow through the ranks of secondary, tertiary, and apex predator.

A Choice for a Lifetime Growing up, Eileen Barton had seemed like one of those girls who would never have to worry about her weight.

Perhaps because I had spent a lifetime growing up under my father's pall of doubt, I was stunned by Mr. Mandela's gracious greeting of my father.

On the southern high plains of Texas, on a time-scale less than an average human lifetime, growing concerns over water scarcity are playing out.

Maintaining system performance in the presence of uncertainties in design and operating environments is both challenging and increasingly essential as system lifetimes grow longer.

In his lifetime there grew about him a small but devoted band of disciples, among whom the young Narendranath Datta (who later took the name Vivekananda) was outstanding and was chosen by Ramakrishna as his successor.

But then, I've seen this before — in my lifetime, I grew up with bullies at school, I grew up with bullies in the Sea Scouts, I grew up with bullies in my band!" a) Morrissey b) Keith Richards c) Pete Townshend d) Peter Hook "Here we are with the world in the state it is in, and we've got One Direction … Where are the artists writing with any real sense of angst and purpose?

It takes a lifetime to grow the right kind of chief executive.