Legacy

//ˈleɪɡəsi//

"Legacy" in a Sentence (22 examples)

Basing his invention of public relations on his uncle Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, Edward Bernays has left a lasting legacy on the media and how they interact with their audiences.

The 19th-century European colonization of Africa has left a lasting legacy all over the continent.

Ronnie's music and legacy live in all of us!

The previous government had bequeathed a legacy of problems.

What will be my legacy?

The money is a legacy from my aunt.

They had a legacy system that they have tinkered with for years and it became more and more difficult to find the expertise to improve it.

Near the end of his life, he started to worry a lot about what his legacy would be.

This isn't about money or power. This is about my legacy.

The existing grid mechanism is used to provide a metadata registry. It defines high level APIs that manage transaction-based replication across multiple domains and move legacy software to the grid smoothly.

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John Muir left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.

During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.

And judging by how well the progressive and youth-favoured party did, many observers suspect this latest round of legal charges are a response to Future Forward's commitment to undo the legacy of military rule and undertake democratic reforms.

As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on.

Because she was a legacy, her mother's sorority rushed her.

They have no idea what occurs in the network or its topology, and all of the services remain dependent on it — a very legacy approach to creating services in the optical network.

However, pre-relational DBMS are legacy.

Finally, the organisation ends up with an expensive ERP of which it uses only part because of divergent evolutionary directions and a set of new systems fast becoming legacy.

There was talk in the past that ERP systems were legacy, lacked the agility and flexibility, and did not support interoperability.

Because most of these HALs are legacy and only used on aging or outdated hardware, chances are that you do not have any in your lab and must be creative in procuring one from an active user.

In practice, there are legacy or mature, domain specific, off the shelf (i.e. software that other software projects can reuse and integrate into their own products) tools that are used regularly by modeleres (e.g., for testing purposes, for communication and collaboration).

Legacy acts won't stop releasing music

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