Sentence examples for beyond the former from inspiring English sources

MOSCOW — For years, Russian companies have said they have the cash and the ambition to expand well beyond the former Soviet Union.

But these companies lack the best incentive to raise their production, or develop new fields in inaccessible places: the right to export gas beyond the former Soviet Union (which is a Gazprom monopoly).

Jordan Graham whipped a left-wing free-kick into a crowded Forest goalmouth and Ebanks-Landell charged in at the far post to bury a powerful header beyond the former Wolves goalkeeper Dorus de Vries.

Considerable progress toward more scientific classifications of religions was marked by the emergence of morphological schemes, which assume that religion in its history has passed through a series of discernible stages of development, each having readily identifiable characteristics and each constituting an advance beyond the former stage.

The lake is formed by the Akosombo Dam, which, begun in 1961 and completed in 1965, dammed the Volta River just south of Ajena and created a lake extending upstream from the Akosombo Dam to Yapei, beyond the former confluence of the Black Volta and White Volta rivers.

By the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory, promulgated in 1898, Great Britain leased these territories from China for 99 years and expanded its control of Hong Kong territory beyond the former boundary line (later known as the Old Frontier Line) set up by the Convention of Beijing in 1860.

Beyond, you reach the former ghetto where the remains of a synagogue bear witness to Latvia's part in some of the worst atrocities of the second world war.

And two and a half hours beyond sits the former Danish port town of Tranquebar, its yellow fort blending into the sand, its rusty cannons pointing at the ocean.

Beyond that, the former "streetcar college," as it once called itself, pierced the Top 10 circle of U.S. News & World Report rankings this year, humbling several Ivy League institutions along the way, including Brown, Cornell and Columbia.

While Castro became a figurehead for revolutionary armed struggle throughout and beyond Latin America, the former guerrilla was far from universally popular in his home country once he turned his hand to government.

High-end corporate biographies, such as the low-cost airline founder G.R. Gopinath's "Simply Fly" or "The TCS Story... and Beyond" by the former Tata Consulting Services chief executive S. Ramadorai, and leadership strategy books command a significant slice of one end of the market, as do mass-market business self-help books.