On Saint Leger's advice they were given titles to lands that they had formerly held in defiance of English law.
Mr. Powers, who had formerly held the post, said the move was necessary to quell unrest among a deeply divided faculty.
Manuel fled to Constantinople in 1392 to claim his crown but, two years later, was under siege by the sultan who had formerly held him captive.
The son of Ealhmund, king in Kent in 784 and 786, Egbert was a member of a family that had formerly held the West Saxon kingship.
The last volume, Monsieur Bergeret à Paris (1901; Monsieur Bergeret in Paris), concerns the participation of the hero, who had formerly held himself aloof from political strife, in the Alfred Dreyfus affair.
Matthew Drutt, chief curator of the Menil Collection, took a decorative approach, hanging a quiet gray painting by Max Ernst on a gray wall that had formerly held such assertive works as a monumental Braque (shown at left).
But by this evening's town meeting, there was already one change in place: on the dais where the town board sat, the space that had formerly held a wooden carving of the coat of arms was empty.
Although their caffè-espresso color was the same, the shyness, any traces of real vulnerability that they had formerly held, had left them; now he looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not.
After the 2000 census, which cost the state of Pennsylvania two seats because of population loss, Republicans carved up the districts so that the G.O.P., which had formerly held ten congressional seats to the Democrats' eleven, held a twelve-to-seven advanthougheven theugh the over-all statewide partisan breakdown was basically unchanged.
By excluding so many citizens who had formerly held power from government, the CPA ultimately excluded and marginalized a large swath of the Iraqi population from both governance and the economy; an estimated 60 75 percent of those purged were unemployed by late 2003 (see The Economist 2003 and David 2006).
