Generation in sentence

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Maybe they exaggerated their style because they thought that they were not considered to be quite civilized, and they transferred that generational attitude or anxiety onto us, the next generation, so much so that when I was growing up, if ever on the television news or radio a report came up about a black person committing some crime — a mugging, a murder, a burglary — we winced along with our parents, because they were letting the side down.

And I understood that could also represent the rift between one generation and the next, between people like me and my father's generation, but there's no tradition in Caribbean life of memoirs or biographies.

This will close the generation gap, perhaps.

Each generation builds up an edifice which they are reluctant or sometimes unable to disassemble, but in the writing, my version of the story began to change, and it was detached from me.

Medical schools, nursing schools, all sorts of health professional education programs can help by training the next generation of upstreamists.

What was amazing about their generation was that they were not only building new lives in this new, unfamiliar area, but they were also literally building the city.

If my grandparents and my parents were really focused on building the city up and out, I think my generation is focused on reclaiming the spaces that we already have, rediscovering our shared history, and reimagining how we can make our communities more interesting, more beautiful and more just.

I would spend hours looking at the connections, saying, "Oh, the little kid up at the top has red hair; so does that first generation up there."

So typically, they want to transmit wealth to the next generation, to their children, or sometimes they want to accumulate wealth because of the prestige, the power that goes with wealth.

And I want to ask you a question: If education is about building a generation of hope, why are there 120 students packed in my classroom?

We are the generation to plant it, so that the next generation can water it, and the one that follows will enjoy the shade.

My generation has been incredibly good at using new networks and technologies to organize protests, protests that were able to successfully impose agendas, roll back extremely pernicious legislation, and even overthrow authoritarian governments.

I think she couldn't, because I think she must realize that she represents a lost generation of Syrian refugee children, a generation isolated and frustrated.

But leave him to languish in this muddy field, and he will become a member of a lost generation.

Generation one are those who appeared in the '50s and '60s.

They were followed by generation two.

The good news is that most of these leaders have moved on, and they were replaced by generation three.

Now these leaders are by no means perfect, but the one thing they have done is that they have cleaned up much of the mess of generation two.

They've stopped the fighting, and I call them the stabilizer generation.

I believe that the next generation to come after this, generation four, has a unique opportunity to transform the continent.

The second thing that this generation needs to do is to create our institutions.

Now, all of this sounds great, but where are we going to get this generation four from?

We're building 25 brand new universities in Africa that are going to cultivate this next generation of African leaders.

My hope is that many, many other home-grown African institutions will blossom, and these institutions will all come together with a common vision of developing this next generation of African leaders, generation four, and they will teach them this common message: create jobs, build our institutions.

Nelson Mandela once said, "Every now and then, a generation is called upon to be great.

You can be that great generation."

I believe that if we carefully identify and cultivate the next generation of African leaders, then this generation four that is coming up will be the greatest generation that Africa and indeed the entire world has ever seen.

Just one generation ago, this was the norm in the U.S. as well.

Two, a plan for how to attract great people: generation Y, women, but also retirees.

And we wonder why these biases don't die, and move from generation to generation?

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