Sentence examples for rules of a generation from inspiring English sources

They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers.

They only know the rules of a generation of self-seekers.

"I didn't want to submit to their rules, the rules of a generation that has already given all it had to give".

Franklin Roosevelt said of the financial industry in his first inaugural address: "Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion … they know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers … and when there is no vision the people perish".

In his 1932 presidential campaign, Franklin D. Roosevelt attacked Wall Street's "unscrupulous moneychangers" who knew "only the rules of a generation of self-seekers".

Your parents lived through the tyranny of Martian puppet rule for a generation.

An all-night debate in the House of Representatives, capping years of efforts, ended this morning in a 240-189 vote approving the most sweeping overhaul of political campaign finance rules in a generation.

(And let's not forget Lewis Carroll.) But her witty linguistic collages have their own rhythms and rules, reflecting the attitude of a generation that takes for granted the comic banality of everyday discourse and the disjunction between emotion and expression that is a hallmark of the post-ironic age — the youth whose response to the confusions of the world is a cosmic "whatever".

That, in turn, was cribbed from "The Wretched of the Earth," the Algerian psychiatrist Frantz Fanon's treatise on decolonialization, which anointed "absolute violence" as the only means of ending colonial rule and inspired a generation of leftist revolutionaries.

Her understated yet arrestingly different aesthetic – clean lines and a restrained chic, where opulence and decoration had ruled – has guided the eye of a generation of women in a new direction.

To better understand the rules of antibody generation, Altman et al. compared antibodies produced in response to flu in mice and lampreys.