present generation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpresentandgeneration
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present
adjective
uk/ˈprez.ənt/us/ˈprez.ənt/
in a ...
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generation
noun
uk/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
all the people of about the same age within a society or within a ...
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(Definition ofpresentandgenerationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpresent generation
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This provision reflects the idea that popular sovereignty cannot license thepresentgenerationto alienate the popular sovereignty of future generations.
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Basically thepresentgenerationwill rule for another 20 years and the degree of innovation will be dependent on the appointment policy of that generation.
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Below wepresentgenerationand testing of intermediate forms of heat and demagnetization constraints that lead to dominance determination.
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In addition, promotion is far more possible for thepresentgenerationthan at the time she worked.
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Many complained that thepresentgenerationwas not interested in their advice.
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But for thepresentgenerationof older people at least, friends do not appear to confirm identity in the same way that family does.
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Thus, it may be that the employment prospects for many of thepresentgenerationof older workers have been permanently impaired.
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Considering thepresentgenerationof microcomputers, such a piece should not represent great practical difficulties for performance.
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The ambiguity comes from the realisation that working women of thepresentgenerationcontribute quite substantially to the income of a modern household.
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There is, however, a growing tolerance towards dissident views among thepresentgenerationof archaeologists.
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The problem is first to educate the educators and then for the educators to teach thepresentgeneration of parents, grandparents and children about human reproduction and fertility control.
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It remains to be seen whether this is a trend or whether thepresentgenerationof teen-age husbands will adopt the habits of those now in their 20s and 30s.
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He also discusses whether thepresentgenerationhas a responsibility towards future generations with regard to social attitudes, size of population, genetic make-up and the pollution of the environment.
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Educators not only need to be in touch with thepresentgenerationof parents, but also the future generation.
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When transferring the family assets from thepresentgenerationto the next, the eldest son or the eldest daughter's husband would become the successor by the rule of primogeniture.
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This objective is frequently used in economic theory, but does accord diminished importance to the consumption of future generations, especially in the far future, as compared to thepresentgeneration.
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For that reason, we, thepresentgenerationof political decision makers, are responsible for righting these wrongs of the past.
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We need to rethink and recognise that water is our most important asset and that our responsibility towards it goes far beyond thepresentgeneration.
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