Throughout

Throughout all the shocks and aftershocks of the ensuing half century and even into the next millennium the GIs and their wives and widows would form the bedrock of American religious institutions and of civic institutions as well.20

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Throughout their lives boomers would attend religious services about 25–30 percent less often than their parents had done at the same stage of life.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Throughout time, the movements of people and their languages have reshaped linguistic landscapes of wide regions.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Throughout this book, we rely on the Faith Matters surveys heavily but not exclusively.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Throughout China too, a prominent white P on a blue background spells “parking,” even where speakers of the national language, Mandarin, use a compound, literally “stop car,” tíngchē, to say it.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Throughout the second half of the first millennium, former Latin speakers came to speak what were effectively new languages, all offshoots of Vulgar Latin.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Throughout the European Union English is, increasingly, the common tongue of travelers, shoppers, businesspeople, and students as well as government administrators.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Throughout the African diaspora, including Brazil and the Caribbean, and in other ancient cultures where the oldest ways remain alive, the mystics and shamans go to the spiritual classrooms.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

Throughout the motorized world, STOP went on to become almost as familiar as the red octagon that so often presented it to drivers nearing potential collision.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Throughout most of the century, “none” parents were likely to have “something” children, so that intergenerationally, the category of “no religion” was highly unstable.13 As we saw in the previous chapter, the fraction of all Americans who claimed no religion was quite small roughly 5–10 percent until the 1990s; it rose sharply after 1990 among the millennial generation.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010