Sentences with phrase «of a generation of»

Since 1920, the Snap - on brand has earned the respect and trust of generations of professionals.

I think we're on the cusp of a generation of government, political and social leadership that come from the «outside» as barriers of entry to these fields are lowered and we see more competitive elections, which will hopefully be more content - driven.

To this, Blair replied that the change was partly generational — her predecessors were «of a generation of girls who didn't get educated.»

As people sobered up, Komisar became the conscience of a generation of start - ups that he encouraged to build businesses with a significant purpose beyond just making money.

Under Mattrick's leadership, Microsoft's most recent gaming platform, the Xbox 360, became the top seller of its generation of consoles, which includes the Sony PlayStation 3.

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.

FORTUNE — The launch of the a generation of Kindles — in particular the $ 299 Kindle Fire HD — has sparked a reexamination of the difference between Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL).

And yet I'm hopeful precisely because of this generation of kids.

Arminio Fraga, who worked under Lemann in the 1980s, later served as central bank chief, and now runs one of the country's largest asset - management firms, is one of a generation of Brazilian entrepreneurs who look up to Lemann.

When you invest your money with them, you can be assured of the generation of higher returns in binary options trading.

So far this week we've covered two of the three main trends that will drive China's consumer economy through 2020: the ongoing expansion of China's affluent class and the coming of age of a generation of free - spending youth.

«Many Millennials began their adult lives in the midst of the worst economic downturn in generations, and our survey reveals just how deeply and broadly the Great Recession has marked the financial lives of this generation of Americans, said FINRA Foundation President Gerri Walsh.

The energy of generations of family members may have gone into making the business a success.

My favorite is: And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter.

«I'm part of a generation of Christians who grew up keeping your mouth shut about your personal life,» he says.

We're joining together with the voices of generations of believers in this practice of singing to God.»

But as the rest of the interviews in the book show, placing social limits on art is one thing, and the Iranian revolution's destruction of a generation of artists in the name of ideology quite another.

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus... will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

However that may be, the sustained labours of generations of early biblical scholars gradually established certain broad controlling principles of interpretation; and these ultimately crystallized into a general schema, by which the study of the Bible was henceforth to be directed.

1823 letter to John Adams — «And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

«And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

It gives me hope to think of the generation rising up in the wake of my generation because I am still rising, too, in the wake of the generation of women who came before me and so it goes.

A novel of generations of conversos» Jews who converted to Christianity» during the years leading up to the Spanish Inquisition.

In the words of Thomas Jefferson: «And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.»

The interpretation does describe the situation of the later church, and indeed of all generations of church history; but it describes also the situation that confronted Jesus himself.

9 These are the records of the generations of Noah.

Genesis 5:1 - 3 says this: «This is the book of the generations of Adam.

The current annual rate of extinction of species far exceeds any plausible rate of generation of species.

We have been evoloving both physically and socially for hundreds of thousands of years, adapting to our environment and passing on learned information from one generation to the next for us to build upon pulling ourselves out of the muck through thousands of generations of hard working humans to get to where we are today.

I emphasize them because I believe that in these respects I was typical of my generation of theologians.

If 900,000 Muslims» acts are enough to term all Muslims around the world as terrorists and not as the ideology of a certain extremist group, then we Muslims can safely say that with a 100 times greater extremism on display by some Christians scores of generations of Christians before and after us should be termed terrorists.

They may be either spontaneously formulated, or acknowledged as tradition (successions of waves of conversions and of generations of followers).

Not the familiar questions of generations of theological classrooms, but concrete questions posed by the lives we know, and honed into graphic forms by the best of our novelists, film - makers, and social commentators.

Their intent is that there will be an ongoing confession of generations of believers, an ongoing proclamation of the good news.

God's calling is to Abraham and Sarah, to David and to Solomon, and to the multitude of generations of the Hebrew people.

«The Lord be with you... lift up your heart» echoing the prayers and songs of generations of faith.

These tend to fall into two groups: those who follow Ratzinger's reading of the issue and those who continue to share the dream of the generation of 1968 of making the Catholic faith popular in the world, but who understand that to be popular today means being «post-modern» rather than «modern».

It takes an equally long time before, through the cooperation of generations of members, a ritual has evolved that both creates and directs the actions and interactions of a group.

The slogan of «freedom now» is not only the cry of civil rights demonstrators; it is also the watchword of a generation of college and university students seeking for meaning and motivation in their academic work.

Moreover, far from suffering from poverty born of generations of discrimination, by many measures gays and lesbians are statistical winners in America.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

The appendix to the Fourth Gospel is evidence that so long as one survivor of the generation of the apostles remained, the Church clung to the belief that during his lifetime the Lord would come (John xxi.

Probably some of the material was reduced to writing during this period, but it was not until after the passing of the generation of the Companions that their writing became common.

I am thinking in particular of the tremendous beauty and strength of this generation of women.

And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

So Matthew opens his Gospel with the statement: «The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham» (Matt.

«I, like the majority of my generation of evangelical Protestants, had been taught to fear heresy above almost anything else in the world.

That year would define the ethos of a generation of iconoclasts, Hitchens among them.

The last couple of generations of Catholic writers have been far more inclined to whisper.

«And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be cla.ssed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.