Sentence examples for survived for generations from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, several pidgins have survived for generations, a characteristic that indicates a fairly stable system.

Six years ago, Congress took note of one of the nation's great sagas of endurance — descendants of slavery who survived for generations on the barrier chain of Sea Islands along the southeast coast.

The hundreds of artists who live in Kasongan, a village in Bantul, the district hardest hit by the quake, have survived for generations by selling the pottery they make to tourists.

Working with dramatic descriptions of the deep darkness of the plains and the pounding storms that turn the skies black, she offers a sober account of the cattle-ranching families who have survived for generations by keeping their secrets close and their guns handy.

For a people who have survived for generations on the forbidding fringes of this landmass covered with ice and snow, the lectures from environmental groups about seal hunting are often taken as intrusive -- yet another example of meddling from a long line of outsiders.

Many small island communities have survived for generations in remote, hazard prone locations (Reenberg et al. 2008; Campbell 2009; McAdoo et al. 2009; Mercer and Kelman 2010).

The stable [of titles] will survive for generations to come.

Forget fuss and frills, wealthy Londoners are after extreme quality — discreet investment pieces that will survive for generations.

And the psychology of the human species is so poorly understood that the idea that we might survive for generations together in a big tin can is simply insane.

"We're trying to create a long-lasting relationship with them that's going to survive for generations," says Ogimaa Peltier.

Some of the pidgins that have survived for several generations are also spoken as vernaculars by some of their users, including Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea), and Bislama (Vanuatu), all of which are based on a predominantly English vocabulary.