Sentence examples for suffered generations from inspiring English sources

This is an especially poignant point for American indigenous peoples, who suffered generations of forced linguistic assimilation in residential boarding schools.

We have suffered for generations, in India and even here".

It also means that the full effects of the huge increase in global CO2 since the 1970s will be felt and suffered by generations to come.

The recent hammering given to the Green Party's foray into Basic Income for example, failed to recognize that full employment is no longer the golden grail for those who have suffered for generations in low-paid menial jobs: having time to explore life without the threat of homelessness may be preferable.

In frustration, he asked: "So this is liberation?" The Iraqi people have suffered a generation of tyranny and deserve better.

In addition, the chains have suffered a generation-long decline in market share — from as much as 10 percent of the retail market in the 1980s to 2.4 percent in 2010, said Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners, a market research firm based in New Canaan, Conn.

The losses Peevy and Maestas suffered a generation apart serve as evidence that gangs are entrenched in Denver.

Abraham's great grandchildren end up in Egypt, because of famine, and the people of Israel suffer for generations under Pharaoh's yoke.

Have you heard all the stories about how the post war generations suffered under the burden of all that debt?

"The family of Cherry Groce has suffered for three generations from the injustice that was Cherry's shooting by the Metropolitan Police in 1985.

But the magnitude was not so different from the losses suffered by other generations, although of course the young do not have the same assets and savings to fall back on in tough economic times.