Sentence examples for former movement from inspiring English sources

The foremost representative of the former movement was Bâkî; the latter was Hayali Bey.

After a court clerk read a background of the Khmer Rouge and the three defendants, Nuon Chea defended the notoriously brutal former movement, in which he was the number two leader behind the late Pol Pot.

Mingling of anti-Islam and pro-Russian rhetoric in Germany could reflect mere opportunistic exploitation of the former movement by adherents of Moscow, but that seems unlikely.

Apparently the idea that our core purpose is to make money rather than change society, has caused our former movement to feel in many instances more aligned with Wall Street than its occupiers.

The former movement led to performances of long-neglected composers such as Purcell, John Dowland, John Blow and even George Frideric Handel, while the latter complemented it by providing a way of making such performances as authentic as possible as regards the original music and the composer's intentions (less true for Handel, where countertenors appear as castrati replacements).

The separatist flag — red with a white crescent and star and two black and white stripes — dates to the former rebel movement's founding in 1976, but GAM is no longer an illegal separatist movement, said Muzakir Abdul Hamid, an assistant to Mr. Zaini.

The following civil war was essentially a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).

Loyalty to the former liberation movement runs deep.

Till also forms drumlins, streamlined hills that align with former ice movement.

Last April, Partai Aceh, the political vehicle of the former separatist movement, swept the provincial Legislature.

Now that South Sudan is independent and the former liberation movement is the government, Kony remains in the field, a worrying presence in the back of beyond.