Sentences with phrase «than the former generation»

Today we are perhaps more disappointed in life than former generations, and the repeated upheavals in the life of society and of individuals may be explained by this mood of despair, because there is so much colourless boredom in life despite its great possibilities.

The C - Class is more spacious than the former generation.

Our first visual contact with the car emphasizes a more compact coupe than the former generation.

With a 1570 kg kerb weight, the test car C 220 BlueTec is by 15 kg lighter than the former generation, although the body is by 95 mm longer, the safety standard has been upgraded and a lot of assistance systems, that were absent in the past, have come into existence.

Not exact matches

Although the members of Generation X polled feel they are closer to their desired job level than millennials, the former are also more likely to believe they will be unable to attain their career goal:

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

Founded in 2011 by Jake Horowitz and former Goldman Sachs employee Chris Altchek, Mic is a news site aiming to be the voice of the digital generation — 73 % of Mic's 20 million monthly readers are younger than 35.

Started in 1920 by a former AP economics reporter, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. is a closely held company managed for more than eight decades by three generations of the Kiplinger family.

It is young men and women such as these that encourage me in my conviction that the world is much safer in the hands of the newer generation than it ever was with those of my own older generation or of the generation between me and those former students.

A park district consultant hired to analyze the radiation problem at the site - a former city garbage dump where dirt laced with thorium and radium was left a generation ago - has reported that the contamination is more than 12 times greater in volume than had been suspected.

Never fear, politics abhors a vacuum and Tony Blair's Global Institute for Change has stepped in to fill in the detail, leading Alistair Campbell to chide Theresa May that a former PM has done more detailed economic research than the current one on the most important political decision for a generation.

The former target, say, using gene editing techniques to inactivate HIV receptors and achieve resistance of blood cells to the virus (which Sangamo BioSciences is working on in clincial trials) is different than helping parents who both carry genes for Huntington's Disease to have a child that is free of the disease (a change to the genome that would be passed on to future generations and would likely not be very commonly needed).

For me, it's the former rather than the latter... but, then, I'm just slightly older than the generation who swore by those toys that were more than met the eye; not that I'm not curious to see how the animated series translates to live - action, but, frankly, I'm much more psyched to find out if the writers of «The Simpsons Movie» can pull a rabbit out of their hat and come up with a flick that's better than, say, the last three or four seasons of the show.

Likely a slight pun on the fact that their focus to go fast more often than not results in something a little lacklustre, the team is committed to bringing Sonic back to its former glory with Sonic Generations being a good starting point.

We work every day to achieve this vision and have so far helped more than a thousand state secondary schools and colleges across the country to engage their community of former students to improve the motivation, confidence and life chances of the current generation.

Former General Motors CEO Dan Akerson previously indicated that the next - generation Chevrolet Volt would target an all - electric driving range 20 percent greater than the current car's EPA rating of 38 miles.

For the former generation, the aluminium percentage used for the body was less than 10 %, but this figure raises up to 48 % now.

The Italian performance SUV proved itself eight seconds quicker than the category's previous record holder, the former - generation Porsche Cayenne Turbo S (7 minutes 59.7 seconds).

This is the brand's biggest - selling model — Skoda has sold 3.7 million globally since 1996 — but more than that, its evolution is a three - generation account of Skoda's triumphant rise from former Eastern Bloc hulk to Volkswagen Group darling.

Its steering ratio of 14.75:1 is closer than that of the former - generation version.

The former, in particular, is a new - generation model that wants nothing more than to stake claim in the supremely competitive luxury SUV market.

The new multimedia system is a high - end one, more intuitive and has fewer control buttons than the former Comand generation, but surfing through the menus is not as intuitive as it is in the BMW iDrive.

At the launch, Mercedes executives said that the new C - Class is a smaller S - Class, but it is way more than that, because while the S - Class is built upon a modified platform of the former generation, the C - Class benefits from the new platform of the Mercedes brand, called MRA (Modular Rear Architecture).

But at least the glass on the front is solid and more robust than some of the former generations of Fire tablets.

The device is very much a mid-range model, but rather than using a newer generation mid-range chipset, it uses a former flagship chipset.

There Hayden became chief author of the Port Huron Statement, the foundation document for more than a decade of campus activism, and a generation of political engagement by former student activists that continues to be felt in the nomination of then - student activist Hillary Clinton as Democratic candidate for U.S. president.

More than thirty years later, Gagosian will present to a new generation of viewers a full - scale painted replica of the original work, based on documentation from Lichtenstein's studio and produced under the supervision of his former studio assistant.

She talked about why she thinks her work, marked by wild stylistic diversity, is less known than that of several German artists of her generation, like Gerhard Richter, her former husband; Martin Kippenberger, a kindred spirit; Sigmar Polke; and Anselm Kiefer: «I think my work is very difficult to understand.

A former curator at the Whitney, Sims represents a group one generation younger than Pearlstein's.

When I offered the job to Mark, a former Breakthrough Generation Fellow, last summer, I told him that if he ever discovered that solar and batteries were cheaper, cleaner or otherwise better than nuclear power, he had to tell me at once, or I would fire him.