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How to use the word former in a Sentence?

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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Charles-Louis de Secondat

added by Normando
4 months ago

It was played to manipulate you into confusing your dislike for a politician with whether these men are guilty of a crime, whatever the former president’s personal crimes are, you have seen no evidence that Mr. Trump conspired with Ethan Nordean from Seattle.

Nicholas Smith

Found on CNN
11 months ago

The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.

Nicolas Martin, www.iatrogenic.org

added by upthetotempole
11 months ago

The former president started early and we want the governor to be competitive and we’re building with that purpose so he’s not starting from a traditional day one, we have organizations of this movement put together in the early states and they can pick up and lead from there.

Ken Cuccinelli

Found on CNN
11 months ago

It was all declassified papers (not accessible digitally) and kept in a former President’s office – guarded by the United States Secret Service.

Richard Grenell

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Rather than address the issue of banning assault weapons, my former colleagues, a Republican supermajority, are assaulting democracy, and that should scare all of us across the nation.

Justin Jones

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Xi’s recent crackdown could hurt business sentiment among both domestic and foreign investors, many of whom are already nervous about the political environment, xi wants to both revive the Chinese economy and enhance the party’s leadership of private business. These goals are not mutually exclusive, but the latter is likely to constrain the former.

Neil Thomas

Found on CNN
11 months ago

If a person is behaving aggressively or provocatively or if there is any risk, especially if he is from the category of former prisoners, you need to let us know. We will send our recruiting group, carefully collect him and send him back to the front, to the place where he should take out his aggression.

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Found on CNN
12 months ago

We urge you to respect this decision that was already taken, for the well being of the former president’s supporters and his own.

Sandro Avelar

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I haven’t talked to Trump since he was President now, I talk to former people that used to work for Trump every now and then. But not about Trump.

James Comer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Is it, are they doing things that we wish we ’d seen before and we can start doing ? Or is it something unique about their climate and history that make them different ? And fortunately, at least from my perspective, the answer is the former.

John Helliwell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Not everybody was accepting when I sought treatment. My former opponent ridiculed it.

Dan Kildee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Yankees are deeply saddened by the passing of former Yankee Joe Pepitone, whose playful and charismatic personality and on-field contributions made him a favorite of generations of Yankees fans even beyond his years with the team in the 1960s.

New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The people in the faith community are very grateful for Trump and his presidency but their loyalty is to one, and that’s not Trump, it’s to God, it’s not just people of faith – Americans are looking to turn the page. There’s a point where people are just exhausted with former President Trump.

Bob Vander Plaats

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The title of ‘ constitutional carry ’ for this bill is a lie, why are Republicans defending( former Democratic attorney general) Janet Reno’s gun control policies ?

Luis Valdes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you want to heal our land and unite our country together, you do n’t do it by appealing to the angry mob, wherever you’re looking at the leader of our country, you do n’t want him to be engaged in a personal vendetta. And when he talks about vengeance, he’s talking about his personal vendettas, and that’s not healthy for America. It’s certainly not healthy for our party. ’ Larry Hogan, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, however, announced on Sunday that Larry Hogan would pass on the 2024 race to avoid splintering the opposition to the ex-president.

Asa Hutchinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People can see with their own eyes that things are going well in Florida, so I’m not surprised that his message is resonating. If and when he decides to get in he’ll have to convince people that his vision is best for America, i think it’s going to be a tough choice for Republicans. We’re glad he came, and maybe dipped his foot in the water here, but we certainly welcome a visit from the former president and anyone else.

New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Chessy clearly understood the intent of the motion. She read it, she came to my wife and I and said, ‘They’re trying to silence me. They’re trying to intimidate me into silence. If they think they’re going to do that, they have another thing coming.’ former New Hampshire Attorney General Delaney has a strong track record of upholding the rule of law, including taking action to protect vulnerable victims.

White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That would tell us that this cross section of citizens, having spent nine months working hard at this, has concluded that at least some of what was done on behalf of the former president to overturn the election results was a crime, i think that’s terrifically significant.

Clark Cunningham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m 57, i’m a former tank driver and I volunteered to fight the day Russia invaded.

Vadym Khodak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you take the exact same conduct – and make it not about Donald Trump and not about a former president of the United States, would the case have been indicted? It would have been indicted in a flat second.

Mark Pomerantz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most recently, they asked for my cell phones because they want to be able to extract from it the voice recordings that I had had with Keith Davidson, former attorney to Stormy Daniels before Michael Avenatti, as well as a bunch of emails, text messages and so on.

Michael Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every woman legislator that I know takes a thick briefing book home every single night, and I remember (former Tennessee Republican) Sen. Fred Thompson … once saying to one of our male colleagues: ‘Susan has a secret. She prepares.’.

Susan Collins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Former Vice President Mike Pence reached out today about classified documents found at his home in Indiana, he has agreed to fully cooperate with congressional oversight and any questions we have about the matter. Former Vice President Pence’s transparency stands in stark contrast to Biden White House staff who continue to withhold information from Congress and the American people.

James Comer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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