Sentence examples for former statements from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

I took advice from lawyers, and in providing advice that there was no such impediment I was of course aware of the former statements from Mr Hunt which you cite.

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".

Then because the former statements are logically equivalent to them, the optimalists surmise that universal quantifications are true by default too (Mellor 2003: 214; Simons 2008: 14 5).

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

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

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

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

For instance, he was neatly able to distinguish between the simple past "I saw John", for which \(E=R \lt S,\) and the present perfect "I have seen John", for which \(E \lt R=S,\) the former statement referring to a past time coincident with the event of seeing John, the latter to the present time, relative to which the seeing of John is in the past.