Sentence examples for former manner from inspiring English sources

But almost at once he reverted to his former manner of life, and, although James failed to apprehend him, he was forced to take refuge in France about 1595.

Lovey loved him well enough, in the way of adulthood, she thought, not in the feverish former manner of witless drowning immersion, that love she'd fallen into heedlessly, as if into a body of water, with no idea of what such a thing could cost her.

Although many scholars of the LWS actively taught and worked in the new political reality, it would be difficult to say that the school continued its former manner of existence.

Seles burbled through a post-match news conference in her former manner, ignoring conventional rules of spoken punctuation and relying instead on the carefully placed guffaw to signal a conversational pause or end of a thought.

From the mid 1930s onwards, Roman Catholicism and conservative politics were much featured in his journalistic and non-fiction writing, before he reverted to his former manner with Scoop (1938), a novel about journalism, journalists, and unsavoury journalistic practices.

About ten years ago, David Laibson published a paper on "hyperbolic discounting," which suggested that people treat immediate rewards differently from the way they treat delayed rewards, preferring the former in a manner that simple rational-choice models can't explain.

Ifans, Wendy Cook claims, catches her former husband's manner 'quite eerily', but 'there was no real insight into their personalities, or into the times we were living in'.

She mentioned, in an unhappy manner, former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, an avid proponent of the treaty and currently the subject of an inquiry into financial irregularities from the 1990s.

After Shishakli came into conflict with the Ba'athists that year as a result of the former's authoritarian manner of governance, Atrash moved to Homs, a hotbed of opposition to Shishakli's rule, where he helped coordinate the supply of arms to insurgents in Jabal al-Druze.

It was his — and his former Goldman colleagues' — superior manner.

Yet behind his unassuming, self-effacing manner, the former planetary scientist has shown surprising steel throughout his career.