Sentence examples for weight of decades from inspiring English sources

Beijing's arguments have the weight of decades of history.

It's the accumulated weight of decades of lived experience, which have somehow tilted you towards despair.

In the early nineties, apartheid finally buckled under the weight of decades of resistance.

Players would be crushed under the weight of decades of history.

It's goofy and grim, joyful and panicky, in equal helpings the sort of measured, sculpted, and revisionist vision of the genre that happens whenever auteurs choose to shoulder the weight of decades of convention. Colin Joyce.

Set in a decaying theater that once housed the Ziegfeld-style Weismann musical revues, "Follies" asks us to measure the warping weight of three decades upon the onetime Weismann performers who reunite "for a final chance to glamorize the old days," as one character says.

And so calling it Migration instantly politically charges the record because the word no longer just means the movement of people from one area to another, but now carries the weight of decades-old prejudice about the perceived threat of outsiders.

"England 's relief at the final whistle," wrote Robert Armstrong in the Guardian, "was like the dead weight of a decade suddenly lifting".

Will Japan's banking system, already suffocating under the weight of a decade's worth of failed loans, be able to withstand the sharp drop in stock prices there?

Pinette, who had struggled with his weight for decades, died of natural causes, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office.

In transportation engineering, and particularly in aerospace and automotive engineering, reducing the weight of structures has for decades been one of the primary concerns.