8 sentences with 'generations'
Example sentences and phrases with the word generations and other words derived from it.
• « Three generations of men in my family had gone into medicine. That was the tradition and I knew I was going to carry it on. »
• « Settlers from Canaan (present-day Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and parts of Syria) had been arriving in Egypt for generations, initially settling and assimilating into Egyptian society. »
• « Their control of Egypt lasted barely two generations, ending when the puppet pharaoh set up by the Assyrians revolted and drove them out of Egypt. »
• « Nabopolassar went on to found the "Neo-Babylonian" empire, which became the most important power in Mesopotamia for generations to come. »
• « Two generations later, when the Neo-Babylonian empire itself fell to the Persians, the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great allowed all the slaves of the Babylonians to return to their lands, so the Babylonian captivity came to an end and the Jews returned to Judah, where they rebuilt the Temple. »
• « In the provinces, there was a pattern that took place over a few generations. After being conquered by the Romans, there were often resistance movements and rebellions. These were crushed with overwhelming and brutal force, often worse than the initial invasion. »
• « In short, assimilation occurred. A few generations after the Roman conquest, many (especially the local elites) in a given province identified with Roman civilisation. »
• « The first generations of Muslims sought to conquer every culture and kingdom they encountered, though not initially in the name of conversion. »