Sentence examples similar to wasted a generation from inspiring English sources

"The greatest tragedy in this nation is that we would waste a generation of children," said Angus in his opening remarks.

"They have wasted a whole generation of young people," he said.

Bore the pants off their new audience and rugby union will have wasted a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

The contemporary "America First Party" includes the following in its platform: "Since the United States Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, there have been 40 million unborn babies slaughtered, laying to waste an entire generation.

But this generation is a wasted generation — unless God comes to the aid.

Having close to one million young people unemployed is a shocking waste of a generation.

The alternative is drift, and prosperity being laid waste – for a generation.

The period his book documents, in the last moments before a random virus laid waste to a generation of gay men, "was a very sexy and a very sexual time".

It's a waste of a generation.

He also finds increasingly infuriating both the homophobia of the political right and the bland understanding of middle-class liberals, and regards his time as a teacher wasted on a new generation of shallow students.

He and his colleagues have wasted the opportunity of a generation.