Sentence examples for the preceding generation from inspiring English sources

Those born after 1980 are slightly more likely than the preceding generation to link the EU with waste and bureaucracy.

This publication lasted until 1816, during which time Cruikshank came to rival James Gillray, the leading English caricaturist of the preceding generation.

She will have few rivals, because the most senior cabinet posts are staying in the hands of veterans from the preceding generation.

As vast numbers of baby boomers entered the work force in the mid-1960's, employers, spotting a mother lode of cheaper labor, offered early retirement packages to the preceding generation to clear the way.

In one thrilling sequence, Thomsen links Fassbinder's trouble with his father and his tumultuous family life in the years immediately after the Second World War to Fassbinder's adoption of artistic forebears from the preceding generation, that of his grandparents.

"I think we have a lot more opportunities than the preceding generation," said Tiffany Williams, 18, a student at Baruch College in New York, who works full time as an administrative assistant.

Cohen may be regarded as a rather unusual case among the Jewish philosophers of his and the preceding generations because of the dual nature of his philosophical thought the general and the Jewish and the uneasy equilibrium between them.

In other words, it's unwise to assume that what worked for the preceding generations of academics will work now.

Virginia, despite the sale and exportation of so many thousands of enslaved people to the other Southern states over the preceding generations, remained the largest slave state in the United States, and thus the Confederacy.

It is as if "all the preceding generations of mankind, and all the various nations, have lived for every successive generation," suggesting that there is "no absolute disseverance of individual nations" (63 64).

Investments in financial technology companies continue to be on a tear, as everyone sees an open field to grab the attention… and money of millennial consumers (and even the preceding generations before they enter financial dotage), With the field continuing to expand, each flavor of technologically enhanced financial services vendor is looking to be the hub for consumer services.