Sentence examples for a former thought from inspiring English sources
For Mill, this definition from Hobbes gives names a twofold purpose: (1) a name is a mark that allows us to recall a former thought, and (2) a name is a means of communicating our thoughts to others, a sign (in Mill's words) of "what thought the speaker had before in his mind".
The two main hallmarks of Alzheimer's are plaques and tangles, with the former thought to attack nerve cells from the outside and the latter from the inside.
The former thought that recessions and depressions were primarily caused by the Fed "printing" too many dollars in the preceding boom, and that "printing" more dollars to pull the economy out of a slump was like trying to cure a hangover with more alcohol.
The former thought I was getting Alzheimer's; the latter didn't.
Though Flandez and Hankinson also commented positively on the song, the former thought that Tina's sung interjections became annoying and the latter called it "far from the best of the evening".
These former thoughts came back into my mind watching this – though at no point does Mjolnir's design-feature, the strap, actually get used.
"At the moment when I put my foot on the step," Poincaré wrote, "the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the way for it..
"At the moment when I put my foot on the step," Poincaré wrote, "the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the way for it...
As a former Railway Chaplain, thoughts for all concerned #EalingBroadway pic.twitter.com/SIqbmk22YF The #ealingbroadway tragedy has shown the railways' social media teams at their best.
He said that former President Ronald Reagan had "a lot of baggage" because he was thought of as too old, too conservative, and because he was a former actor who some thought was not smart enough to be president.
One clever way a former editor of the Thoughts page assured that aphorisms were of the moment was to quote himself, sneaking his pearls in under the nom de plume of John P. Grier (a Thoroughbred racehorse from long ago).
