Sentence examples for formerly close from inspiring English sources

Many of the boys in our studies spoke about feelings of loneliness and isolation during late adolescence and how they missed their formerly close male friendships.

His new finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, formerly close to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the ex-IMF boss, has begun to prepare the ground.

Most of the time they're subtle and unstated, a matter of dark looks and long-simmering resentments, that erode, rather than rupture, formerly close relationships.

The Sept. 12 primary includes races that range from grudge matches to breakups of formerly close allies to battles between young insurgents and well-entrenched incumbents.

Comments by Indonesia's two presidential candidates, Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto, made ahead of this year's election, cast Australia as the problem in formerly close bilateral relations.

President Jaafar Nimeiri, formerly close to the Communist party, was leaning towards the Islamists, who favoured the introduction of sharia law, even in the predominantly Christian south.

The morphology of the island is characterized by a broadly circular shape and steep coastal slopes, cut by deep erosional valleys and extremely irregular plateau with a few major fluvial valleys and several closed (or formerly closed) depressions that correspond to modern phreatomagmatic craters and phonolite volcanic domes.

Across the Russian diaspora, the dispute has divided parishes and formerly close-knit communities.

Damietta was an important city of ancient Egypt and was formerly closer to the sea than it is at present.

The 1996 law was supposed to open wide new vistas of competition in formerly closed communications markets.

The leader of the formerly closed country has reached out to other countries too, most notably South Korea.