Sentence examples for sake of posterity from inspiring English sources

Pigeons have inherited objects that were solemnly produced for the sake of posterity.

Plato doubtless knew well the doctrines of individual Sophists; but he was writing for those to whom these doctrines were already well known, and he was always more interested in following the argument where it led than in providing precise statements of other people's views for the sake of posterity.

Financial honchos who cough up big bucks to carve their names on 42nd Street for the sake of posterity might recall that Andrew Carnegie made himself immortal by supporting — and building — the small local branches that now more than ever are anchors of their neighborhoods all across the city.

The author, the late Fred Wander, survived an astonishing 20 different Nazi concentration camps (among them Auschwitz); his book, a memoir of his captivity between the years 1939 and 1945, was written for the sake of posterity and as a human chronicle.

Hence, the study of hydrogeological processes and water chemistry will be highly beneficial for using these water for irrigation and for the sake of posterity.

For the sake of posterity, not to mention his shareholders, it seems self-defeating to refuse Karmazin the operating power that the president has said he will require to stay on at the company.

I would love nothing more than for us to polish our equally hollow and relatively dull tradition for the sake of our posterity's winters (and by "posterity," I mean me).

Whether one plants a palm shoot as the end is closing in or invests in an environmentally sound way of life for the sake of her/his posterity, it comes to the same thing: serving God through a stewardship that reflects what the Qur'an throughout sets forth as God's generosity, mercy, and guidance in the first place.

"We have to make a rational, responsible and conscientious choice for the sake of Taiwan's posterity," Mr. Chang said.

Or worse, one of the guests, artists like Ed Moses or Chris Burden, who, for the sake of modern art's posterity, hug the walls as neatly as a painting.

Some poets, I know, are quite ready to settle for a middle rank, to trade in their hopes of an illustrious posterity for the sake of a few plaudits from their current circle.