Sentence examples for formerly taken from inspiring English sources

In glass buildings, floor slabs perform the expressive function formerly taken by walls.

He is simply eager to take what he believes at the moment is the best approach to a given issue and is, therefore, not influenced by whatever position he may have formerly taken, inconsistent though his newest position may be.

A few additional items emerged from the analysis of the documents, thus completing the framework which was formerly taken from the literature.

To determine the effect of this curriculum-based research experience on student career trajectories, we obtained demographic and attitudinal data on students who had formerly taken a GEP course or served as a TA in a GEP course.

This expansion of self is what philosopher and political theorist Charles Taylor refers to as a 'fusion of horizons': we learn to move in a broader horizon, within which what we have formerly taken for granted as the background to valuation can be situated as one possibility alongside the different background of the formerly unfamiliar culture.

Now, the Sarkars are struggling without the $800 a month they formerly took in from tenants, the husband, Mahbub Sarkar, said.

Officials involved in the deal say that it formerly took many years for a vaccine developed in the West to trickle down to developing countries.

This is only one of the many startling changes to have occurred recently in a country that formerly took pride in its inherent conservatism.

The journey between Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, and Malmo, Sweden's third-largest city, which formerly took 45 minutes by ferry, has now been cut in half, whether by car on the upper span or on the train directly below.

Until the 1960s the most-significant factors affecting the water balance of the Aral Sea were the rates of river inflow and water loss through evaporation, which formerly took out each year about the same amount of water that the rivers brought in.

And if what we formerly took for nothing turns out, on closer examination, to have the makings of protons and neutrons and tables and chairs and planets and solar systems and galaxies and universes in it, then it wasn't nothing, and it couldn't have been nothing, in the first place.