Sentence examples for former means from inspiring English sources

The former means you kill someone through incompetence.

The former means that the success of a few sectors will largely determine whether the SDG goals are met.

The former means that the world's databases are filling up with genes from every part of the tree of life.

They can sort their wasps from their telks, even though they have no idea that the former means a stinging insect and the latter means nothing.

He is practicing three-card monte (Lincoln's former means of support) and talks excitedly about getting his old girlfriend back: "I gave her this ring today.

The former means liken to, the latter means make a comparison: so unless you are specifically likening someone or something to someone or something else, use compare with.

Too much of the latter meant they had no backbone; too much of the former meant they were mollycoddled.

From the former, meant as tidbits to be enjoyed with drinks, we liked the three fried oysters topped with cole slaw and served with tartar sauce.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla .— A gentle giant from Johannesburg, and a self-proclaimed former "mean guy" from Manhattan who grew up on Seaman Avenue in Inwood.

Dre is now, thanks to headphone sales, even richer than Jay Z, and Compton too lets him re-enact scenes from his former mean streets.

For the Beaufort Sea study area, we suggest that SWAN wave simulations using the latter local spectral steepness formulation are better than those using the former mean spectral steepness formulation.