Sentence examples for former up from inspiring English sources

The miners and the banks had their usual tussle, the former up and the latter down.

Crawford's first touch from Dougie Imrie's pass set the former up for his left-foot shot into the corner, his 10th goal of the season.

The big corporate news of the session was the announcement that bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises will sell its North American operations to Coca-Cola, sending shares of the former up 32.9%.

And there is no creature afoot which we do not enslave, overtaking it by speed or subduing it by force or catching it by some artifice, nor yet any that lives in the water or travels through the air; nay, even of these two classes, we pull the former up from the depths without seeing them and drag the latter down from the sky without going to them.

The moment further stressed Ben's importance to Ezekiel and set the former up to die.

The former "Up All Night" star, 41, married her musician fiance Martyn LeNoble, 43, on Saturday, "surrounded by family in a private ceremony at their home in Los Angeles," People reports.

It has come to this for the chairwoman of a powerful Senate committee, a former up-and-comer in her party and onetime favorite daughter in a state whose political royalty includes President Bill Clinton and former Senators J. William Fulbright and Dale Bumpers.

By the end of last week, this former up-and-comer, whose bill would once again allow insurance companies to decide when a mother and her newborn would have to leave the hospital, had been labeled a pariah.

Not only does it make getting dressed each morning a lot easier, but it sets sixth formers up as role models for younger students, and that's important.

It brings former Florence up the Southern Appalachians into Northern Virginia.

The former grows up to 3 m tall and has long panicles of white flowers.