Sentences with phrase «predecessor generations»

A highly mobile generation, they are not chained to their automobiles, as were their predecessor generations.

«I don't think millennials are buying bread at the same rate as the predecessor generations,» he said.

Overall, the Cayenne has broader shoulders compared to the predecessor generation — making it more muscular, more athletic and more dynamic.

Not exact matches

They do not want to be dictated to by the younger generation, who in turn are also very respectful and submissive given the success of their predecessor.

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

With many people having long ago converted to the wireless N standard of Wi - Fi, which has better speed, throughput and range than its G predecessor, the next generation of the technology is already on its way.

When it comes to their views on marriage and families, Millennials don't quite fit into the same mold as their predecessors, but when it comes to their desire to have stable, long - lasting relationships and families, the generation might prove more traditional than they seem.

Scholars at present seem inclined to recognize more history in it than their predecessors did a generation or two ago.

If a new generation is convinced that the publisher of religious books or journals expects them to hold to the style of their predecessors, they may be even more prone to resist the troubling urge to write.

Each generation rejects, but also builds upon, the work of its predecessors, often retrieving elements of the earlier tradition that those predecessors had rejected.

The opposite tack, taken by many moderns, is that each succeeding generation is ever so much more enlightened than its predecessors and can dispense with what passed for wisdom among the ancestors.

The assessment of a philosopher's importance by his or her contemporaries is a risky business, for future generations have a way of unmaking the judgments of their predecessors.1 Yet, by standard measures, Charles Hartshorne (1897 - 2000) was one of the premiere philosophers of the twentieth century.

For him generation «me» should be more like their predecessors... which is EXACTLY what we NOT to happen in many more ways than one.

There is flexibility that is good in the fact that each generation rebels against its predecessor, but this very fact keeps moral gains from being secure.

Leibniz, in the next generation, critically and penetratingly examined the theories of his predecessors and developed his own alternative philosophy of nature in a series of monographs, articles, and letters.

While this is at least somewhat consistent with what we might expect developmentally from teens, it is worth noting that this generation of young persons has less experience with religious institutions and formal belief systems than any of its predecessors.

In the generation which saw the birth of Jesus Augustus Caesar, climaxing his predecessors» accomplishments, gave to the Roman Empire a unity which was to persist.

The Depression cut college enrollments in the fall of 1932 — about one student in every 15 dropped out for money reasons or was unable to matriculate — and the survivors began to think of themselves as a rather more «serious» generation than their predecessors.

With players reaching the big leagues at a younger age than their predecessors, a generation gap may be developing when it comes to etiquette.

Yet by the time he had retired from the international stage in 1994, Preud «homme had surpassed his predecessor in many people's eyes to be considered one of the greatest goalkeepers of his generation.

However, his experience as one of the greatest players of his generation has given him a huge advantage over his predecessors at the Bernabeu with the respect he commands from an ego - filled dressing room.

Each generation of parents are different from their predecessors, and when it comes to parenting styles, most new parents tend to develop their own methods and at times avoid some of the methods they grew up with at home.

Unlike their predecessors, the next generation of niche politicians won't necessarily choose the third - party route.

On the other hand, Edmund Burke, a predecessor to modern conservatism, saw government as an institution that grew organically as a tradition, and that we should be suspicious of making changes to it just because individuals in the current generation happen to object to it.

Mr. Rangel's district has been synonymous with Harlem for generations and nurtured several of New York's most important politcal figures, inclduing not just Mr. Rangel, but his predecessor, Adam Clayton Powell.

It reveals the Prime Minister's cunning masterplan to put everything that he and his predecessor built to fire and the sword, making sure that the party is not simply dented but flattened for a generation, the big tent cut into pieces and burned, the centre ground abandoned to the enemy, and anything of value utterly destroyed.

Decades of searches at two previous generations of accelerators — Europe's Large Electron Positron collider (predecessor to the LHC) and the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois — failed to find the Higgs.

If 2013 is any indication this could be changing, although the next generation of American manufacturing will differ greatly from its predecessor thanks to advanced technologies that rely on information rather than brawn.

EACH NEW GENERATION of astronomers discovers that the universe is much bigger than their predecessors imagined.

Each generation has thus produced more energy per person than its predecessor, the study reported, even as the population has climbed from about 500 million to more than 7 billion in the 450 years analyzed by the authors.

Using the new biosensors, the most efficient microbial workers are easily identified so that they can serve as the predecessors for colonies of engineered bacteria that evolve to become more efficient at producing renewable chemicals with each subsequent generation.

But flash has its limitations and will someday reach a scaling barrier that would leave subsequent generations of digital cameras and cell phones unable to store significantly more information or operate orders of magnitude faster than their predecessors — at least not without costing a lot more.

Einstein would say by way of calming his worldwide admirers: «In science... the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.»

In contrast, younger generations of stars consumed the corpses of their predecessors containing heavy elements, which stunted their growth.

People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to climate change, according to new Princeton research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

URS has provided engineering and construction services for the installation of nuclear power generation since the 1960s in the U.S. and abroad through its heritage companies Ebasco, United Engineers & Constructors, and Gibbs & Hill, and pioneered the concept of nuclear contract maintenance and modifications, and large - scale modular construction through predecessor companies Catalytic and Stearns - Roger.

After doing so for five generations, they ended up with an enzyme that was 170 times more effective at antigen - clipping than its original predecessors.

Each successive generation of fruits and vegetables becomes less healthy than its predecessor.

Driving this change is a new generation of chief executives and chief marketing officers who have more liberal values than their predecessors and find themselves facing growing pressure to use their positions of power to do right by society.

Seating was also impacted by a new generation of designers, with different values to their predecessors.

Rayman Origins, the predecessor to Legends, was one of the best platform games of this generation, and Rayman Legends has it squarely beat across the line.

His fascination with the bonds of family distinguishes Desplechin and many French filmmakers of his generation from their New Wave predecessors.

Wolf of the Battlefield ™: Commando 3 takes the same no - holds barred spirit its predecessors had and delivers next - gen graphics and a furious cooperative shooter experience for a new generation of shooter fans.

Whether or not V can reach the same level of cultural impact as its predecessor remains to be seen, but with a nice mix of returning cast members, fresh faces and a new outlook on the genre, no franchise is better positioned to lead fighting games into the new generation.

Though this plan is clearly not as well - conceived as that of the previous generation seen in this film's predecessor, Susan reluctantly agrees to it.

Its predecessor, Dark Souls, has been hailed as the most difficult game of our generation, but how does it hold up today?

Likewise, today's generation of parents are possibly more safety - conscious than their predecessors and hence find themselves caught in the Catch - 22 situation of knowing that their children would benefit from the opportunity to be outdoors more, but being unable to find the time to supervise them and unwilling to take the risk of sending them out alone.

The ADA generation experienced more equality and access to opportunity in education, the workforce, and the community than their predecessors.

Just as our predecessors worked hard to set in motion a powerful and long - lasting system of separation, we can work hard to set in motion a better system that will unite future generations and result in educational equality like we've never seen before.

Mary E. Dilworth will lead a discussion that probes beneath the surface to recognize and explain how the current generation of teachers and those of color, in particular, have a distinctly different mindset than their baby boomer and generation X predecessors; what habits of mind and experiences contribute to their understanding of quality teaching and student learning; what constitutes good and useful preparation and practice; and what processes and policies accommodate cultural responsiveness and allow for all students to meet their full potential.