Sentence examples for formerly argued from inspiring English sources

Many of the feats of common ravens were formerly argued to be stereotyped innate behaviour, but it now has been established that their aptitudes for solving problems individually and learning from each other reflect a flexible capacity for intelligent insight unusual among non-human animals.

Many skeletal and behavioral features observed to separate later Homo from earlier hominins were formerly argued to have arisen as a single adaptive package, including increased brain size, tool manipulation, increased body size, smaller dentition, and greater commitment to terrestrial long-distance walking or running (Wood and Collard, 1999; Hawks et al., 2000).

Formerly, some authorities argued that these birds and the penguins arose independently from cursorial reptiles, but it is now generally agreed that all of them passed through a flying stage in the course of their evolution.

The Murray Group, which formerly owned Rangers, argued they were loans.

The Murray Group, which formerly owned Rangers, argued that the payments were loans.

In a recent Financial Times column Janan Ganesh (formerly of this parish) argued that its willingness to challenge vested interests fades at the outer limits of its own: those of public-sector producers.

In an interview with the Guardian, the Conservative ex-cabinet minister, formerly known as John Gummer, argued that the best way of protecting the planet is broad agreement about practical solutions, including exploitation of Britain's shale gas reserves.

In a recent article Paul Pelletier, formerly a senior prosecutor, argued that the DOJ's processing of cases has become so drawn out that it now oversees a bribery "sinkhole".Others worry that the America-centred model that has emerged for resolving international bribery cases fails to deliver justice.

Cliff Prior, chief executive of mental health charity Rethink, formerly the National Schizophrenia Fellowship, argues that such opposition would be short-sighted.

Opposition politicians, from both the centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution and the formerly ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, argue that NAFTA should be re-negotiated.

The F.B.I. agent Bernazzani argued that a formerly credible defector was peddling bad information.