Sentence examples for because of the former from inspiring English sources

It's taught in primary school and spoken widely because of the former British rule.

I'm talking about the El-Kettar Cemetery, otherwise known as "the Perfumery," because of the former jasmine distillery situated nearby.

Miliband may be deliberately avoiding comparisons with Wilson because of the former Labour leader's disappointing performance in office.

They are also called wind scorpions because of their swiftness, camel spiders because of their humped heads, and solpugids because of the former scientific name.

Mr. Giuliani's candidacy was similarly a nonstarter with him, he said, because of the former New York City mayor's support for abortion rights.

Fox and the team executive John Elway are saddled with an unwelcome problem because of the former coach Josh McDaniels's conviction — alone in the N.F.L. — that Tebow merited a first-round pick.

Interestingly, in his comparative study on the foreign policies of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on the one hand and Kyrgyzstan on the other, McGlinchey (2012) came to the conclusion that sometimes autocratic leaders may be more supportive of the West than democratic ones, which happens exactly because of the formers' need for an additional source of gaining domestic legitimacy.

Chinese scholars claimed that, because part of the former territory of Koguryo now resides within China's borders, its history ought to be considered Chinese, not Korean.

Objections to the original list were raised by some members of the union's executive council because none of the former player candidates was African-American.

As a consequence, one may conclude that there are more English words beginning with the letter A, than words having the letter A as the third letter, simply because instances of the former is more easily accessible.

Because evaluation of the former was easier, the subcutaneous model was used in subsequent experiments.