Sentence examples for and a formerly from inspiring English sources

It employs, among others, Cambodian immigrants, former welfare recipients and a formerly homeless man.

Early on, the family hoped Jeffrey Butler, a retired professor and a formerly vigorous 79-year-old, could recover from his stroke.

TARO PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES is an Israeli company with sales of $316 million and a formerly highflying stock that trades on the Nasdaq.

(Or if we decided that the descriptions were more noteworthy than the names, we could do it the other way: "an imprisoned lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and a formerly imprisoned filmmaker, Jafar Panahi").

Voss cannot explain how a onetime jumper, a claimer and a formerly fragile gelding has been transformed into the sturdiest of stakes horses at a time most of his peers have become stable ponies or mainstays in the retirement pastures.

Quick facts: Despite its history as a perennially underachieving program, Eastern Michigan is in position to challenge for both a rare bowl appearance and a formerly unheard of MAC championship in 2008.

Of course, one other century-and-a-half formerly fuddy-duddy brand had managed to update itself for the 21st century: Burberry.

Then he was hired by KBLA, playing rock and rhythm-and-blues at a formerly all-white station.

There are two events that actually trigger a decision: upon arrival of a request and once a formerly busy vehicle is available and idle again.

He founded the American Academy in Berlin, which promotes cultural relations, and used a formerly quiet nonprofit called the Global Business Coalition to match corporate leaders with public health issues.

This position was designed to bring in a person with expertise as a leader in the criminal justice field -- and as a formerly incarcerated individual.