Sentence examples for former things from inspiring English sources

"Country would translate that as 'When former things was is and everything was nice'".

In the Book of Revelation, John beholds a "new Jerusalem" descending from the heavens and hears a voice describing the life to come: "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away".

In the former things are prominent, in the latter facts are prominent (Scheler 1973).

Choice of vocabulary here is controversial: Let us suppose (for the sake of example) that the right thing to say is that the former things exist and the latter do not.

But in some cases, what we want to say is that there cannot be an A-difference in certain things without a B-difference in certain other things distinct things to which the former things are related in a certain way.

This letter was originally published on Not the Former Things in July , 2014

A former spokesman for the European Commission (and, among other things, a former head of the WTO), he brought international respectability to Mr Berlusconi's somewhat louche government.

For example, the USA has more developed institutions than Japan, but the latter has better ECCE than the former because, among other things, the Japanese society has developed a natural cultural identity that promotes ECCE where most of the young Japanese mothers pay their fullest attention to the education of their children at their young age.

Mugabe accused his former ally, among other things, of using witchcraft to determine when the 93-year-old president would finally drop dead.

Among other things, a former newspaper editor who once wrote an incredibly homophobic opinion piece that blamed gay people for the AIDS epidemic.

In section 3. we will examine more radical views which say that the moral to draw from reflection upon concrete mass expressions, among other things, is that the world consists of stuff, not things; or stuff in addition to things, where the former is not thing-like.