Sentence examples for former over from inspiring English sources

If you raise wages, you favor spending on the former over the latter.

I believe that a vast majority of Americans would, all things being equal, choose the former over the latter.

A good password has to be both easy to remember and hard to guess, but in practice people seem to plump for the former over the latter.

The mark of a civilised society is that it promotes the messy frustrations and delays of the former over the false consolation of the latter.

While I have never had to face prison crowding or capital punishment, I believe I could tolerate the former over the latter.

Yet the chancellor of the exchequer, Alistair Darling, chose the former over the latter with alacrity on February 12th when he backed away from the most contentious of his plans to tax rich foreigners living in Britain.

Under the new constitution, the president shares power with the prime minister and parliament, as Tunisia seeks to leave behind its former over-weaning executive presidency.

Ian Olgeirson, a senior analyst at SNL Kagan, said in a statement on Wednesday that cable and satellite companies were "pointing to a continuation of the forces that pushed subscriber gains into negative territory in the second quarter, including the weak economy, high unemployment and elevated churn of former over-the-air households".

Only a portion of Sirius’ 6 million-plus subscribers tune in to hear him, compared to some 12 million daily listeners he had at his former over-the-air radio gig.

Already strained relations between Hamas and the PNA collapsed entirely when the former took over the Gaza Strip in 2007.

E. coli MPs and non-MPs show a clear contrast in the number of clusters with the former having over twice as many clusters as the latter.