Sentence examples for former elements from inspiring English sources

Today the Commonwealth includes former elements of the British Empire in a free association of sovereign states.

"The opportunity is to build an Iraqi security force from former elements of the army that will work under the command of coalition forces".

The general said all soldiers who volunteered for the task force had to agree to a mission statement that pledged they would fight terrorists, former elements of the fallen Saddam Hussein government and insurgents within Iraq.

Sometimes the progressive, or government-good, party (Grant's Republicans) reaches out to fringe elements of the reactionary, or government-bad, party (the Democrats of his day), who are in economic distress, as in the nineteen-thirties; sometimes elements of the reactionary party reach out to former elements of the progressive party who are newly fearful of social change, as now.

The results are useful for designing new shape memory alloys, as well as bulk metallic glass composites with the addition of glass former elements.

It was also found that the γ′ solvus temperature increases by the addition of the γ′ former elements such as Ta, Nb and Ti, which decreases the γ solidus temperature.

the traditional or classical philosophical theist has chosen one element in each pair as a divine attribute (the former element of each pair) and denigrated the other.

For example, we hypothesize that high abandonment relief can strongly influence the location of the subsequent channel element and will result in an organized channel stacking pattern in which the path of the younger channel element approximates the path of the former element.

He's administered three ash-and-ink tattoos so far, and most of the former element settles to the bottom of the ink well.

Their slow eradication, along with the demise of local boozers, is arguably a blow to a former element of urban life that had real value – to its participants, at least.

Therefore, the former element disappeared entirely, while the latter was reduced to the coracoid process.