Sentence examples for former view from inspiring English sources

Libertarians endorse the former view, while the "republican" tradition, Pettit claims, has historically upheld the latter.

I've always taken the former view and so, clearly, does Bondy.

Miller reports that Pauli inclined to the former view, Jung the latter.

While the former view dominated most of the early responses to WikiLeaks, it seems excessively cheerful in retrospect.

Contrary to a former view, there is little reason to believe that he inclined toward the Puritanical side.

Those who held the former view recognized that some notion of function or teleology generally was uniquely suitable to biology and not eliminable from it.

It was another theft that preoccupied her, however, as the building blotted out her former view of the sky from work.

The former view radical actions of the early '70s as an almost necessary reaction to the times (and particularly to the war in Vietnam).

The former view was shown to be correct in 1886, when two Neanderthal skeletons associated with Middle Paleolithic stone tools and bones of extinct animals were discovered in a cave at Spy, Belgium.

Among those who take the former view, some say that morality depends upon religion in the way in which eating depends upon having an appetite: Religion provides the motivation that makes people behave morally.

The prevailing orthodoxy is to take the former view – which is why contemporary artists celebrate this heritage in the modern works which use the techniques for pieces that wouldn't even be recognised as quilts by their predecessors.