"Families spent generations removing trees to practice agriculture, and we're up against that," said Dr. Garrett, the emeritus professor here.
We have spent generations constructing elaborate systems of patriarchy, caste and social and sexual inequality that allow abuse to flourish.
Oncologists had spent generations studying one possible outcome of that battle: when the woman lost, she succumbed to metastasis.
That is unfair to a country of beleaguered men and women who have spent generations trying to survive the waves of invaders washing through their history.
It may lack tropical-beach-brochure allure, but Brits have spent generations working the bikini goosebumps look and enjoying a seafront ice-cream with a lager chaser, right?
"These were built originally as one-family houses," said Gigi Zimmerman, the sales director of Brownstone Real Estate, "and after having spent generations as two-, three- and four-family houses, we're now seeing them converted back.
Many workers who clustered around the Conservative leader were from families whose fathers and sons had spent generations down in the mines, and saw a vote for Labour as a birthright.
Mr. Tinsman, slim and muscular at 140 pounds and 5-feet 7-inches, was born in Lumberville, Pa., to a family that had spent generations in the lumber trade.
Out of this kind of grudging acceptance of each other's atavistic imperatives has emerged a sense of sameness between two rival communities that have spent generations fighting to maintain their differences.
Some of the 193,000 full-time farmers and farm owners in Britain say they may well go out of business, mainly those who have spent generations building up pedigree herds that could be wiped out.
