Sentence examples for formerly subject from inspiring English sources

This exodus has produced a daily commuting problem and has left the city of Venice with a smaller resident population than many of its formerly subject towns.

Formerly subject to widespread, even official ethnic discrimination, the Sami are now legally recognized as a distinct culture and have been granted some measure of autonomy through the Sami Parliament.

The new owners were predominantly from the formerly subject groups: Croat, Romanian, Ukrainian, and Slovene though poor Magyar or German peasants were also allowed a share of the redistributed property.

Yet few pause to notice that the descendants of the empire-builders and of their formerly subject peoples now share the small island whose inhabitants once sailed away to change the face of the world.

Ruled by the Serbian Karadjordjević dynasty, the new kingdom included the previously independent kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro and the South Slav territories in areas formerly subject to the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Dalmatia, Croatia-Slavonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Vojvodina.

During his reign, he completed the conquest and expulsion of the Hyksos from the delta region, restored Theban rule over the whole of Egypt and successfully reasserted Egyptian power in its formerly subject territories of Nubia and Canaan.

Land managers are grappling with massive changes in vegetation structure, particularly in protected areas formerly subjected to fire and grazing.

Taken together, our study showed a remarkable deterioration in the functioning of filtering fistula, bringing about a rise in intraocular pressure and adverse alterations in the morphology of filtering blebs, as a consequence of phacoemulsification of cataract in eyes formerly subjected to trabeculectomy.

The metropolitan of Heraclea Perinthus, to whom Byzantium had formerly been subject, now came under the jurisdiction of Constantinople.

The perennial debate about journalism programs — theoretical teaching versus professional skill building — has been displaced by more urgent questions: How can you help students find sustainable business models, while introducing the formerly verboten subject of the business side?

Not only that, but Cantor was all set to give a lecture Friday afternoon on that very formerly taboo subject, income inequality (or "disparity," as he prefers to call it), at Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania's business school.