Sentences with phrase «sake of posterity»

Gurney managed to save one plate, which was shown to the president's oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, in hopes that he might want to preserve the image for the sake of posterity.

There is a coup within the system and we must stop it for the sake of posterity,» he added.

For the sake of posterity, I have made my stand clear.

I wish every movie, regardless of merit, could get such treatment, if only for the sake of posterity.

But for the sake of posterity, here is a true and accurate accounting of what I ate:

If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger but not a better or a happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.

Despite that fact and that new uploads are no longer allowed, Twitter kept the Vines all backed up and visible to users through a web browser — presumably for the sake of posterity.