Sentences with phrase «last of a generation»

News of her firing comes on the same day that Zimbabwe's 93 year - old Robert Mugabe, the last of the generation of African leaders to take over from colonial rule, has had his hold on power broken by army units loyal to his former bodyguard Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Brooke was one of the last of a generation of black leaders who personally knew someone who had been born into slavery.

BMW unveiled the second generation of its X3 small SUV in 2010, and given its product cycles, the 2017 X3 is the last of this generation, as the 2018 X3, the third generation, is already becoming available.

Lot # 47 - This very rare and beautiful 1982 Corvette was the last of a generation.

Rare and beautiful, the last of a generation.

When the last of the generation of the Benevolent Self had gone silent, when all the plots on their side were full, the descendants waited what they thought was a decent amount of time for an indecent bunch and sealed up that graveyard for good.

When he died on March 4, 2016, we lost one of the last of a generation of Southern writers whose humorous, riveting, sad, terrifying and redemptive stories captured the ragged ways families fall in and out of love and hope.

Import appeal: Fighters and shoot -»em - ups are myriad here, as the Dreamcast was the last of the generation of consoles focused on replicating the arcade appeal.

It is possible to view her as the last of the generation of Abstract Expressionists.

Not exact matches

It also helps explain another phenomenon: Why the two most famous whistleblowers of the last few years happen to be a product of Generation Y.

For the last seven years he has served full - time as president of Cristo Rey Brooklyn HS, which educates minority students, mostly immigrants or first - generation Americans of modest means.

I can explain all this to the last generation of people until my face turns blue and they still won't get it.

«A diamond lasts more than a single generation, the way an urn of ashes won't,» says the 27 - year - old entrepreneur.

CB: The last agreement was billed as a «fix for a generation» — which was clearly a bit of an overstatement.

So, last summer it rolled out Into (Intomore.com), a digital content site aimed at a younger generation of queer consumers.

The last generation to declare itself with art instead of technology grew up tough and alienated.

The proportion of people who say they are saving less than last year to retirement savings is down, but the retirement income deficit for the coming generation of retirees is estimated to be $ 4.3 trillion.

Last week saw the emergence of a rumour that Sony's next - generation PlayStation will not play used games.

Bob Lutz, a veteran of GM, Ford, and Chrysler, recalled in a first - person article for Road & Track last November how Piëch told him the secret of the fourth - generation Golf's remarkably tight body fits: «I'll give you the recipe.

When your customers are excited to pass your products down to the next generation, you're building loyalty that lasts a lifetime — and that starts by designing a product that will stand the test of time.

Last week I had the great pleasure of meeting a man who was the third generation owner of a sausage and ham making business.

In a statement, President Obama said of the astronaut and public servant, «John always had the right stuff, inspiring generations of scientists, engineers and astronauts who will take us to Mars and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay... The last of America's first astronauts has left us, but propelled by their example we know that our future here on Earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens.

The report indicated that while more than 78 percent of organizations have engaged in lead generation programs throughout last year, only about 17 percent of these companies are actually meeting their lead generation goals.

As the last generation expected to be more successful than their parents, they may have had unrealistic expectations of their ability to save.

Moreover, the admittedly quite uncertain long - term budget exercises released by the CBO last October maintain an implicit on - budget surplus under baseline assumptions well past 2030 despite the budgetary pressures from the aging of the baby - boom generation, especially on the major health programs.

«Future generations will look back on this decision as a piece of supremely enlightened policymaking, and one that raises the prospect of the world's most beautiful country becoming free from drinks container litter at last,» he said.

The former head of power generation company Pacific Energy has emerged as the new chief executive of thermal energy company Enerji, replacing Andrew Vlahov, who stepped down last week.

He says: «There is a new generation of real estate investors that have emerged in the last five years making a killing in real estate.

-- Jesse Robbins, founder and CEO of Orion Labs, an enterprise voice platform which secured $ 18.25 million last fall to expand its next - generation of services to the broader speech and voice recognition market, on track to be worth $ 18.3 billion by 2023

Dominion plans to increase solar generation by nearly 50 percent over last year's forecast, a change made possible in part because of the technology's increasing affordability, company executives said in an Associated Press interview.

Thirty - six percent of Millennials — otherwise known as Generation Y, which includes those born in the early 1980s to the early 2000s — were living with mom and dad last year, according to a report by Pew Research Center.

Last year, for example, renewables were responsible for 29 percent of gross electricity generation in Germany.

I thought it would be another 10 year cycle (like waves 1 & 2), but a couple of things accelerated it, like the union of CMOs and CIOs together to power next - generation business and customer analytics to drive targeted, personalized 1:1 experiences to build trusted, long - lasting brand relationships.

Why He's One to Watch: At a developers» conference last February, Bill Gates hailed the San Francisco start - up as «the next generation of social networking.»

The BLO, backed by the powerful and violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, has tried to reassert control in Acapulco since late last year, clashing with local groups like the Independent Cartel of Acapulco (CIDA), according to The Associated Press.

That's not at all a concern for me since I can't remember the last time I've gone back to play a game from a previous generation, but it is going to make a lot of people frothing mad, which is ironic given that these are the same people who have actually held on to older games and not traded them in.

Much of the truly negative sentiment toward the building has dissipated over the last several decades, but it continues to strike a chord with many Poles, especially the older generation that lived under Soviet rule.

Speaking of Samsung, how improbable is it that the scandal - plagued company is riding high even though its de facto leader awaits a judgement on a bribery charge and its smartphone profits blew up with the batteries of its last generation of phones?

Because gene drives can pass such changes down from one generation to the next, each potential alteration in the code of life could have a lasting and unknowable effect.

We're on the second generation of everything we announced last year, but today what we talked about is the software developer kits.

Maverick was down about 2 % through the fall of last year, and the letter describes «disappointing alpha generation on both the long and the short side» since mid-2016.

The new bottle is squatter than the older, taller style on another assembly line, with a smaller dispenser and a label explaining that this version of Comfort brand fabric conditioner is good for 38 washes, rather than the 33 of the last - generation package.

The Jews, in the phraseology of Doctor Ruppin of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, having changed in the eighteenth century from an Oriental people to an Eastern European, have in the last few generations changed from an Eastern European people to a Western European and an American.

An article in these pages last fall called entrepreneurs this generation's «heroes,» citing the rapid growth in millennial ownership of startups as proof of this generation's ambition.

Millennials drank around 159.6 million cases of wine last year, an amount that surpasses any other generation.

Compared to leaders from the other generations, Gen X leaders received, on average, just 1.2 promotions in the last five years with their company, versus an average of 1.6 for Millennials and 1.4 for Baby Boomers.

These new «fat protocols» may eventually create and capture more value than the last generation of Internet companies.

Last fall, we introduced our first family of Made by Google products, including Pixel smartphones, Google Home, Google Wifi, Daydream View and Chromecast Ultra, and we're preparing to unveil our second generation of products on October 4.

Over the last three years, there's been a growing roar questioning the wisdom behind one of today's central practices for lead generation.

First, globalization and trade have caused significant disruption to the US economy but this has had little to do with trade agreements of the last generation.