Sentence examples for nearly two generations of from inspiring English sources

But after nearly two generations of contentious and equivocal compromise over slavery, many northerners were leaving that earlier world behind.

For nearly two generations of Cubans they've known nothing but the embargo.

How many companies can claim a Ding Dong's worth of mindshare across nearly five generations of consumers?

The actor, whose screen portrayals of men of duty, honor and courage, coupled with his own off-camera brand of personal true grit, endeared him to nearly three generations of Americans, succumbed to cancer at 5 35 p.m. Monday at the UCLA Medical Center.

"Professor Epstein helped shape the field for nearly two generations across a range of essays covering all of the Joyce canon," the Quarterly wrote in an obituary on its blog.

How gay men have sex with each other was unilaterally redefined for nearly two generations as a result of AIDS.

Even with such august patronage, it seemed an unlikely marriage: Menuhin the cultivated man of the classics whose "spiritualised sensuousness" has enraptured Sir Neville Cardus and many more during the nearly two generations, Grappelli the jazz violinist and pianist of enormous French chic, now appearing with Sacha Distel at the Duke of York's.

Libyan authors have lived and worked under the hot breath of the dictatorship for nearly two generations now.

For nearly two generations, no company has been worse than Walmart when it comes to suppressing the rights of workers to stand together on the job.

For nearly two generations, no American has been obligated to join up, and few do.

Here's the red-orange-yellow-green-blueprint of how to finish the job started by our brothers and sisters at Stonewall nearly two generations ago.