Sentence examples for because of its former from inspiring English sources

Though Sprint does have Internet backbone services in the United States and elsewhere, it stayed out of Europe precisely because of its former partnerships with the French and German phone companies.

Because of its former manufacturing use, the property already has heavy-duty electric service.

The waivers granted to Halliburton have annoyed several members of Congress, who say the company has enjoyed undue privileges because of its former ties to Vice President Dick Cheney.

More often than not, Slovenia is included as a member of the Balkans because of its long historical ties with its neighbours to the southeast and because of its former incorporation in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes and federal Yugoslavia.

Donors have avoided or downplayed family planning for years, partly because of its former association with coercion, partly because of religious objections, especially to abortion, and partly because some developing-country governments have viewed it as white people coming to poor nations and telling them to have fewer children.

Nearer the house, screening the service wing from view, is a Roman triumphal arch, the "Temple of Apollo", also known (because of its former use a venue for cock fighting) as 'Cockpit Arch', which holds a copy of the famed Apollo Belvedere.

The scary implication, of course, is that now Google will get whatever the hell it wants because one of its former guys is now in a proper policy-making position.

Sibneft is thought to have an advantage in this respect because several of its former managers now hold important positions at Slavneft, including the chief executive, Yury Y. Sukhanov, once a Sibneft vice president.

Safeway had come under scrutiny because one of its former owners, Harold Greenberg, had been convicted of bribery and mail fraud linked to a bid-rigging scheme in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and has been accused of being tied to organized crime.

Kenilworth was chosen for this purpose by Isabella probably both because it was a major fortification, and also because of the symbolism of its former owners' links to popular ideals of freedom and good government.

However, the area that the river drains in Orange County downstream of Santiago Creek is extremely narrow, because of the diversion of its former Orange County drainage area to the Talbert and Huntington Beach flood control channels, which empty into the Pacific very near the mouth of the Santa Ana.