Sentence examples for preceding generation from inspiring English sources

Those born after 1980 are slightly more likely than the preceding generation to link the EU with waste and bureaucracy.

This publication lasted until 1816, during which time Cruikshank came to rival James Gillray, the leading English caricaturist of the preceding generation.

She will have few rivals, because the most senior cabinet posts are staying in the hands of veterans from the preceding generation.

As vast numbers of baby boomers entered the work force in the mid-1960's, employers, spotting a mother lode of cheaper labor, offered early retirement packages to the preceding generation to clear the way.

In one thrilling sequence, Thomsen links Fassbinder's trouble with his father and his tumultuous family life in the years immediately after the Second World War to Fassbinder's adoption of artistic forebears from the preceding generation, that of his grandparents.

"I think we have a lot more opportunities than the preceding generation," said Tiffany Williams, 18, a student at Baruch College in New York, who works full time as an administrative assistant.

Cohen may be regarded as a rather unusual case among the Jewish philosophers of his and the preceding generations because of the dual nature of his philosophical thought the general and the Jewish and the uneasy equilibrium between them.

Instead, it has taken a more humble approach of sprucing up the oeuvre of preceding generations.

In other words, it's unwise to assume that what worked for the preceding generations of academics will work now.

Perhaps this culture of full personal disclosure heralds a new and welcome openness to self-expression, a benign antidote to the buttoned-up repression of preceding generations.

As both an individual playwright and a hub of theatrical activity, he has defined his time in the way Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, Neil Simon and Edward Albee defined the three preceding generations.