• Whatever happened in your country in the past, the present generation is not responsible for it.

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  • On the one hand, the present generation of Oxford editors is admirably permissive.

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  • The present generation of financial bosses, who live in and like London, may tolerate it for a while, but younger ones are feeling the pull of Switzerland, Hong Kong or Dubai.

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  • When VanDerWerff talked to CNN about the article, he also said that the present generation that grew up on "Friends" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" grew weary of the copycat versions that networks churned out.

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  • The present generation of factory robots is akin to early mainframe computers in offices, reckons Rodney Brooks, a co-founder of iRobot, an American firm whose products include the Roomba, a robotic vacuum-cleaner, as well as military robots.

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  • This may result in a gap in transmission of knowledge regarding the production of costumes, instruments, interior decorations and particular dishes associated with the event - intangible heritage that may not outlast the present generation of residents.

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  • The reality is that a sacrifice of some sort will have to be incurred by the present generation for the sake of people who will exist many years from now, in richer societies than ours and, most probably, in countries not our own.

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  • It no longer meets the needs of the present and future generation.

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  • The energy they produce costs us more than other forms of generation at present.

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  • High School Musical star Zac Efron will present Stiller with the Generation Award.

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  • He read my poems and included some of them in a kind of reading he organized to present the work of the younger generation at a Chilean-North American institute.

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  • But there is another level of alternative generation that is, at present, unheralded and which will become more and more relevant as technological development gathers pace - nanogeneration.

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  • Even if Germany and the other European Union countries can prevent the immigration population from growing -- and that is a very uncertain if -- they must find ways to deal with integrating the immigrant population already present, both first- and second- generation.

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  • Once we agree we have a problem, we can do what our parents and every other generation of Americans have done: sacrifice our present comforts to give our children a better life.

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  • Mudiyettu serves as an important cultural site for transmission of traditional values, ethics, moral codes and aesthetic norms of the community to the next generation, thereby ensuring its continuity and relevance in present times.

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  • But if he seemed to be encouraging recklessness in the older generation, in August 2000, he was able to present a study showing the success of his message about the risk of cigarettes.

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  • The architect is part of this continuous process of action and reaction in which each generation repudiates the one before to make its mark on the present.

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  • These shows were legendary among the theatre students of my generation, and many of my classmates claimed to have been present, as children, at one or another of these performances.

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  • Based on the assumption that all future generations will have to pay the bills that today's generation has left behind, Mr Kotlikoff tries to measure the present value of net future taxes (that is, taxes to be paid minus benefits, such as pensions, to be received) for individuals of different ages over their remaining lifetimes and, collectively, for future generations.

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  • All eyes in the pharmaceutical industry will be watching as participants present research that could boost the sales of current medicines and introduce the next generation of cancer blockbusters.

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  • If present trends continue, the report reckons that 30-40% of the next generation of black men will be permanently disenfranchised.

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  • At present, the ceremony, although popular with older residents, is diminishing in popularity with the younger generation.

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  • On my desk at present: Keeping The Millennials, Millennials Rising and The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaking up The Workplace.

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  • Like many others in their generation, their characters are coming to terms with a past whose message is crystal clear and a present that is murkily ambiguous.

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  • Apple wants to own a generation of post-PC world users and block out their competitors until such time as they can present a higher-quality user experience than Apple.

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  • Many of our present Nifty Fifties sell at six to seven times revenues, but they are much more profitable operations than the older generation growthies.

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  • Nevertheless, Mr Jank thinks the world market for Brazilian ethanol will grow and that the sugar industry can triple its electricity co-generation capacity to 15, 000MW (around 27% of Brazil's demand today) from its present acreage of cane.

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  • When students present in class I give them instant private feedback about how they could improve their presentations, in my experience this generation loves to get quick feedback, perhaps it is the influence of hours of videogames where you know how you do straightaway.

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