Sentence examples for spanned generations from inspiring English sources

Mr. Wagoner's departure at G.M. marks an end to a corporate hierarchy that spanned generations.

Seen in the light of the suicides of Grünwald's two daughters and wife, this abuse likely spanned generations.

The march on Selma was part of a broader campaign that spanned generations; the leaders that day part of a long line of heroes.

And yet it was politics that made the Kennedys a de facto royal family, giving them a vein of power in Washington that spanned generations.

Their own struggle for freedom spanned generations at that point, and it was bravely maintained until Union gunboats arrived in 1862 and the centuries-old fight again merged with another war against slaveholders.

The crowd of supporters spanned generations, from young Iranians in jeans who know Tehran only from their parents' stories to elderly women in head scarves who carred photographs of their children whom they said had been jailed and killed in Iran decades ago.

Resolutely unpretentious and with an inclusive family feel, Frighten Brighton, sponsored by Shock Horror magazine and attended by purveyors of cult and genre cinema reading, Hemlock Books, drew a laid-back, appreciative audience that, like the movies themselves, spanned numerous generations.

February 13 , 1888Chios, Greece November 1 , 1968Athens, Greece Georgios Papandreou, (born Feb. 13, 1888, Kaléntzi, Greece died Nov. 1, 1968, Athens) Greek liberal politician who served three terms as prime minister of his country and who established a political dynasty that spanned three generations.

The Russian works at the fair spanned several generations and genres — from brawny Soviet workers wielding hammers, painted by Nikolai Zagrekov in the 1920s, to the Pinocchio figures of Igor Makarevich and delicate geometric shapes of Edik Steinberg, both heirs to the Suprematist school.

A collective sigh of relief was heaved after the last out was recorded; for many, there was a sense of internal validation for an emotional investment that spanned multiple generations.

We carried out a genetic linkage analysis in the extended DYT4 family that spanned 7 generations from England and Australia, revealing a single LOD score peak of 6.33 on chromosome 19p13.12-13.