Sentence examples for order of the former from inspiring English sources

An exception is that the rate constant of the reaction producing the desired product is much smaller than that consuming the desired product, and the order of the former reaction is less than the latter.

Based on comparison of the stability order with the observed percentage of hexa-chlorinated dibenzo-furans (Hexa-CDFs) and hepta-chlorinated dibenzo-furans (Hepta-CDFs) in the ash, fly ash and soil from incinerator, the stability order of the former is basically in consistency with that of the latter.

These murders and others were committed, as it now appears, by agents of the ministry of intelligence, acting under the orders of the former deputy minister, Said Emami.

The committee also ordered families of the former government officials to remain at home to prevent more revenge killings like the ones that took the lives of five people after the militia took power.

Popular culture image-makers need to start ordering more of the former.

Perhaps it was under the orders of Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who now leads the Tory spin operation, that Ken toured the TV and radio studios on Wednesday afternoon – more than 72 hours after his Sunday lunchtime gaffe – and blamed the "hoo-ha" on political journalists.

Sir Menzies Campbell has accused Alex Salmond of being "out of order" after the former Scottish first minister suggested that Charles Kennedy was not wholly committed to the pro-UK side in the Scottish independence referendum campaign.

But now, with newly free Iraqis desperate for a restoration of order, the former exiles may yet surprise the doubters.

But the case that made him an international name the pursuit of General Augusto Pinochet also gave that government a huge diplomatic headache.To order the arrest of the former Chilean dictator while the general was on a visit to Britain was Mr Garzon's greatest media triumph.

Knights and Ladies may encircle their arms with the circlet (a green circle bearing the Order's motto) and the collar of the Order; the former is shown either outside or on top of the latter.

As a speaker, "she was a performer of the first order," Leslie H. Gelb, the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, told me.