Sentences with phrase «worse than any generation»

Don't tell them that they're no better or worse than any generation that came before, or will come after.

Not exact matches

As William Strauss and Neil Howe put it in their seminal book Generations (almost anybody pontificating about generational cohorts is channelling Strauss and Howe, even if they don't realize it), «More than anyone, they have developed a seasoned talent for getting the most out of a bad hand.»

Low productivity is one of the main reasons that Millennials are the first generation since the 1800s to do worse than their parents:

Unlike other generations, we found that Millennials tend to have less positive work experiences as they move up the ladder in an organization; Millennials in executive leadership roles not only reported lower scores than their Boomer and Gen X executive counterparts, they also fared worse than Millennials in front - line manager and department leader roles.

This means that every single person on this planet, from a newborn to the pre baby boomer generation, from the most advanced countries to the worst places on earth, from the top 1 % earners to homeless people have spent more than $ 3 on Apple products (and services) last year.

Stuck in this broken system, Millennials are the first generation who expect their own lives to be worse than the lives of their parents.

As a result, too many British Columbians are living paycheque to paycheque — worried about their jobs, worried about whether they can afford to retire and believing their kids are in B.C's first generation to be left worse off economically than their parents.

Less than a year ago major shale firms were saying they needed oil above $ 60 a barrel to produce more; now some say they will settle for far less in deciding whether to crank up output after the worst oil price crash in a generation.

More than a year into the worst oil bust in a generation, companies keep tallying the carnage.

This generation continues to prepare for the worst as nearly a quarter (24 percent) have already shifted their retirement timeline and plan to work longer than originally anticipated.

What proved to be the greatest enemy of a traditional approach to the Constitution wasn't just bad precedent, but the experience of moral change: that is, the feeling of one generation that it occupied a different moral universe than did previous generations.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

End time (meaning the generation we live in today since, 1948, when Israel got their land back) is worse today than in Noah's day.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

America escaped the worst devastations of the wars and has always been more exclusively shaped by modernity than other nations, and so held on a couple of generations longer; now America too seems slowly to be accepting the evidence.

Our rivalry goes back decades and generations, the moment we moved from Woolwich to North London it has been that way... I can watch Chelski, United, Liverpool, City etc win the league and I will be okay, but Spuds even finishing in the Top 4 is worse to me than the other clubs winning the CL or EPL..

Cubs still trot out that stupid hey chicago whaddya say song, there's no way a new pirate generation is worse than that.

When it comes to predicting who some of the biggest names in English football are going to be in years to come you could do worse than have a gander at The Guardian's Next Generation series, which looks at the best young talents coming through at Premier League sides.

A generation of young people expects to be worse off than their parents.

Of all the countries surveyed, the UK had the highest percentage of respondents expressing concern for the welfare of future generations, with 93 % stating that they believed future generations would be worse off than their own.

The participants saw themselves as being potentially the worst affected by spending cuts, not least because they perceived politicians to take less notice of the views of young people than of those of older generations.

«We will be the first generation to leave our children and grandchildren with a country worse off than the one we live in,» said Faso.

The John Mahama - led NDC Government has, through the PURC, presented the long - suffering people of Ghana with yet another wicked and insensitive present just when Ghanaians are bracing themselves for probably the worst Christmas in a generation: a more than 60 % increase in the price of electricity and water.

The first generation to be born in the 21st century will be worse off than their parents unless changes are made to open up the education system, Ed Miliband will say on Tuesday as he outlines plan for new technical degrees.

More than half of all the jobs added in the city since 2009 are in low - wage industries, and nearly half of the city's millennials are working in retail or fast food positions, where slow wage growth has left their generation worse off economically than their parents.

Could just be me thinking all of this but I have a feeling Tom Brake may be difficult to ever beat given he was able to hold this seat in the Lib Dem's worst general election in more than a generation.

Their generation was neither better nor worse prepared for that challenge than ones reared on Star Trek or Tomb Raider.

I am not saying that it is bad that our generation of bikinis is more revealing than the ones back in the days.

It gets worse for millennials, where they are 125 % more likely to feel addicted to dating, than older generations.

Eye of the Dolphin is much better than most films of this sort, and if it helps a generation of young girls want to grow up to swim with live dolphins rather than groom My Little Ponys, that's certainly not a bad thing at all.

But where Natural Born Killers is interesting, well - acted and provocative, The Doom Generation is just flat out nasty, eye - rollingly boring and SO badly acted I actually kept getting up to go to the bathroom just because peeing was more engaging a phenomenon than sitting in front of this train wreck of a movie.

Sure, the chili - dog - scarfing hedgehog has suffered his share of embarrassing missteps in recent years, but the bad has been more than balanced out by solid titles like Sonic Colors, Sonic Lost World, and the nearly - great Sonic Generations.

Not only is his latest directing gig actually worse than «Let's Go to Prison» (which also co-starred Will Arnett), but it confirms my suspicions that — with the exception of Andy Samberg — the current generation of «Saturday Night Live» players is the least talented group of comedians in the history of the show.

In the end, the high - stakes test is the definition of what we think successful education stands for, for better or worse, and I think it's still an open question whether the next generation of assessments will really match our aspiration to encourage rigorous, deep thinking rather than the rote - like product from the testing regime.

This could partly be due to the legacy issue of climate change (not wanting future generation to inherit a worse world than ours).

«While we lose generation after generation to crime or worse, Tony continues to assume he knows better than parents what's best for their kids.»

First Minister Carwyn Jones has been accused of writing off a generation, after Wales again performed worse than the other UK nations in a study of international educational performance.

States are in the midst of their own contribution increases and benefit cuts, and as a result today's teacher retirement plans are worse than those offered to prior generations.

It looks more like the classic Jaguar era than the new generation, and that's not a bad thing.

[69] The Used Car Safety Ratings, published in 2008 by the Monash University Accident Research Centre, found that first generation Commodores (VB — VL) provide a «worse than average» level of occupant safety protection in the event of an accident.

Because the MQB platform makes extensive use of ultra lightweight steel, the 2015 Volkswagen Golf is some 30 kg lighter than the preceding generation, while its torsional stiffness has increased by 10 percent — not bad, eh?

[26] Possibly because of this, this generation of SHO sold substantially worse than its predecessor, with sales peaking at 9,000 in 1997.

However, Porsche says that the all - wheel drive models made up about 34 percent of Carrera sales during the previous 997 generation, which isn't bad at all and higher than I would have guessed.

As a child, I often heard Lao Lan sigh: «Each generation is worse than the one before!»

Totally, the latest Fire Tablets are actually worse than the last generation spec to spec.

Some writers discuss how the font size is at times worse than that of the first generation Kindle.

However, only 25 percent of all respondents think that their retirement will be better than previous generations versus 33 percent who think it will be similar and 41 percent who think it will be worse.

A recent survey revealed that Generation X might be even worse off than their parents.

Things won't likely be bad enough to derail the economy and the markets for more than a generation, so invest for the future.

The Great Depression, bad it was, and loaded with policy failures of Hoover and FDR, ended in less than a generation.