Sentence examples for former seeks from inspiring English sources

The former seeks both to increase the conservation workforce and to affect people's attitudes about herders and pastoral livelihoods, including attitudes of policy makers, planners, and decision-makers.

If the former seeks to impose a relatively predetermined national identity on its ever growing and fairly diverse immigrant population, the latter tends to overlook its constituents' heterogeneous identities as long as some basic social principles are embraced by all.

The former seeks to find the most likely character for all internal nodes, which maximizes the joint likelihood of the tree, whereas the latter compares the likelihood of all possible amino acids at a particular interior node and selects the one that yields the maximum likelihood tree.

The former seeks to build climate change resilience into health systems; the latter brings the information on adverse health impacts into the climate policy debate as a further motivation to reduce net emissions (2).

Indeed, in Hempel (1965c), he would distinguish between reason-seeking why-questions and explanation-seeking why-questions, where the former seek reasons that justify believing that something is the case, as opposed to the latter, which are usually motivated by knowledge that a specific event has occurred.

The former sought to open the political and economic system somewhat, whereas the latter favoured continuation of the policies of the Stroessner regime and wanted Gustavo Stroessner to succeed his father when he stepped down from office.

And yet, as was clear talking to the ministers, current and former, seeking shelter from the Westminster drizzle in the media encampment of satellite trucks and makeshift tents on College Green, those who want Brown gone look weak too.

One of the many consequences of this shift is the conversion of the herdsmen into townsmen, as the former seek to accommodate Soqotra's newly imported way of life.

The case is part of an ongoing global patent dispute between Qualcomm and Apple, which saw the former seek to block the manufacturing and sale of iPhones in China over patent issues pertaining to payments last year.

The former sought to unite with the UAR, while the latter sought Lebanon's continued independence.

The former seek to minimize the interaction energy among atoms or groups of atoms, whereas the latter concentrate on probable geometry, guided by both excluded volume limitations and structural motifs seen in proteins of known structure".