Sentence examples for formerly dominant from inspiring English sources

I've already copped to wanting my formerly dominant team to dominate again.

The Bodo were formerly dominant in Assam until about 1825.

The formerly dominant smartphone maker has its attractions.

This has happened in large areas of semiarid eastern Australia where grasslands were formerly dominant.

Yoruba states, confederation formerly dominant in what is now western Nigeria.

In recent years, the fortunes of the formerly dominant United States Men's and Women's Diving Teams have suffered, too.

The Islamic State's attacks on the formerly-dominant Free Syrian Army brigades came from behind, and led to the capture of rebel strongholds in northern Syria and the execution of their commanders.

ISIS' attacks on the formerly-dominant Free Syrian Army (FSA) brigades came from behind, and led to the capture of their strongholds in rebel-held northern Syria, and the execution of their commanders.

While the mainstream rebels struggled to defend their frontlines from the resurgent Assad regime, a renegade al Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS launched a series of assaults on the formerly-dominant FSA brigades from behind, capturing their strongholds in rebel-held northern Syria and executing their commanders.

Formerly a dominant force in society".

This was formerly the dominant type of settlement in Amazonia and the Guianas (Boomert 2000: 283; Versteeg and Schinkel 1992).