7 sentences with 'generation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word generation and other words derived from it.
• « He was Javier Hidalgo, who belonged to the fifth generation to run his family's sherry press and was very worried that the future Costa Doñana resort was going to wipe out the park he loved so much. »
• « To make an authentic pizza, you have to follow to the letter the recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation by the pizzaioli, and which today are collected and classified in an official recipe book. »
• « That first generation of historians of Western civilisation succeeded in crafting what would become the core of history curricula for most of the 20th century in American colleges and universities, not to mention high schools. »
• « For almost a century, the emperors appointed their own successors from among the most competent members of the younger generation of Roman elites. Not least because none of them (except the last, with disastrous consequences) had outlived their direct heirs, each emperor would adopt a younger man as his son, thus ensuring his succession. »
• « The general pattern in the Roman imperial period is that the wealthy managed to enrich themselves from generation to generation, at the expense of the rest of Roman society: »
• « The Jewish uprising that occurred against the Romans in 66 CE occurred a generation after the death of another type of Jewish revolutionary: Jesus of Nazareth. »
• « The problem facing the Franks was that Frankish tradition stipulated that lands were to be divided among the sons after the death of the father. Thus, with each generation, a family's holdings could be divided into separate, smaller parts. Over time, this could reduce a large and powerful territory into a large number of small and weak ones. »