Sentence examples for former important from inspiring English sources

A number of former important F.B.I. domestic intelligence sources took issue with Mr. Angelton's apparent suggestion that the domestic antiwar activity was linked to the Soviet Union.

But since the September 11 terrorist attacks, carried out in the main by Saudi nationals, the former important Middle East ally has been deemed unreliable while political turmoil in Venezuela has virtually halted exports to the US.

While the former is important for elimination of anaphylaxis, the latter is important for avoidance of nephrotic syndrome.

The former are important for transport of contaminants or diadromous fish, and the latter is important for resident fish, water birds, and mosquito larvae.

We should be using the former, less important, one to fight the latter, really crucial, one.

The former is important for continuous adaptation of sampling frequency for experimental requirements.

The former is important as it ensures that learners make "good" mistakes and recognize them accordingly, while the latter prevents pupils from adopting misguided approaches when correcting mistakes.

While the former is important to maximize the error recovery mechanisms of the transport protocol, the latter is essential to leverage the potential benefits of the caching mechanism.

That former is important in emerging markets, while the latter can help snare more conservative users and convert them to paying customers later.

That former is important in emerging markets, while the latter can help snare more conservative users and convert them to paying customers later.

The former are important and worth pursuing even if the overall effect on the latter is difficult to prove.