second-generation

For the UN, the plan was a test case of whether the international organization could adapt to the new realities of the postwar world and implement what are sometimes called second-generation multinational operations.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

For the UN, the plan was a test case of whether the international organization could adapt to the new realities of the postwar world and implement what are sometimes called second-generation multinational operations.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

Even John Adams, often called a second-generation minimalist, only uses the surfaces of the rhythms and energies of the pioneering minimalist quartet of composers, creating the huge, pumped-up pounding of his opera Nixon in China or his orchestral piece Harmonielehre.

Minimalism at 50: how less became more 2011

In a report issued Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency also said Iran has begun deploying so-called second-generation centrifuges at its largest uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz, which could allow the country to produce nuclear fuel at three times its current rate.

Iran's Nuclear Experiments Raise Alarm at U.N. Agency Jay Solomon 2011

Most medications prescribed for depression belong to a newer class of drugs called second-generation antidepressants SGA, which inhibit chemicals called neurotransmitters.

Cutting Allergy Shots Ann Lukits 2011

As part of the post-2008 shake-out, much more research money is now flowing into so-called second-generation biofuels that, unlike ethanol, aren't made from food crops.

Biofuels Industry Battles Past Bumps in the Road Guy Chazan 2011

And in France, which is probably our -- they were the leader in this area, they are looking at, I'd call it second-generation of interior remodeling.

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The group of medications known as second-generation antipsychotics, including olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperidone (Risperdal), quetiapine (Seroquel) and clozapine (Clozaril), are widely used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

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Catholicism, while still a target of some prejudice and discrimination as an “immigrant” religion, was moving toward the mainstream as second-generation immigrants moved into middle-class suburbia.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Those young adults were mostly second-generation immigrants, born to Catholic parents who had themselves come to America in the massive immigration wave of 1890–1914.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010