Sentence examples for former statement from inspiring English sources

The former statement is true; the latter isn't.

For Labour, 12 MPs agreed with the former statement, and just one with the latter.

He declined to do so, repeating a former statement that he would make that decision "in the spring".

SIR: THE NEW-YORK TIMES of to-day has an article against Archbishop HUGHES, which is even weaker than its former statement.

Unlike the former statement, it always assumes an order of the given set.

The latter statement is easy to see, and the former statement follows from (2.21).

The big-hitting Spaniard was unafraid to bring up Montgomerie's former statements.

Turnbull should be applauded for this initiative, not lambasted for the former statements of one of the guests.

Romney and Gingrich have each struggled, with mixed success, to disavow their former statements in support of it.

Mr Straw did not comment on his former statements but repeatedly emphasised that the meeting he had with undercover reporters related to possible work after he leaves Parliament in May and not while he is still an MP.

O'Donnell replied that he was "aware of the former statements" made by Hunt and that he was "satisfied that those statements do not amount to a pre-judgement of the case in question".