Sentence examples for former ideas from inspiring English sources

The difficulty is to know just how exceptional Lefkandi was, but in any view it has revised former ideas about what was and what was not possible at the beginning of the 1st millennium bce.

In a radical departure from his former ideas, he insisted that the faqih is not appointed by God but elected by the people and that his powers should be limited to ensure the respect of the people's rights.

The question wether such a move is consistent with Comte's former ideas and more generaly with positivism was asked very early.

On the basis of these former ideas, the IGZ decided to introduce such an indicator of prolonged length of stay.

However, if the respondents in the plain conditions let former ideas about the brand characteristics influence their answers, it is likely that this would have worked to diminish the difference between the results in the different conditions more than if the participants were neutral from the start.

Chertok gives a thumbs up to the former idea while rejecting the latter, citing privacy concerns and the need to maintain professional ethics.

Most Londoners are more perturbed by the less likely possibility of London or Paris under water, than the more certain destruction of Bangladesh though some Americans of my acquaintance are, frankly, entranced by the former idea.

The former idea refers to a physical complex, while the latter refers to a biological complex, and the two are authentically different complexes.

In support of the former idea, there is the Abu'l Qasim's treatise in which he describes how to fire gold leafs on a pre-fired glassy surface [7,8].

The former idea could ensure the charter would get on June's ballot, the latter would push it back because commission members would have to be elected, Righeimer said.

Brown had much to gain by the former idea — how cool is it to have "planet discoverer" on your CV? — but he says he was pleased by the IA Us decision because it "put a scientific foundation behind what most people think they mean when they say the word 'slanet.'" After Pluto's decision, you may recall, one group wasn't pleased: astrologers.