Sentence examples for past mainly from inspiring English sources

But Wackenhut has its own history of cost-cutting, which has led to trouble in the past, mainly in its prison management subsidiary, Wackenhut Corrections.

While the prison breakout was described as the first in Quebec involving a helicopter, the technique has been used in the past, mainly in Europe.

The choice may look like a box of bonbons – it is – but it's fascinating as a swift if slightly jerky gallop through performance styles and big stars of the past (mainly) half century.

They point to mistakes I've made in the past — mainly my bad call on deficits and interest rates in 2003 — and say, "You derp too!" But I've admitted that this was a bad call, and adapted my analysis accordingly.

Gilauri said the idea of the "one-stop shop" for public services had been tried, but "belongs to the past", mainly because it had resulted in individual departments and organisations setting up their own one-stop shops, rather than providing central access to all services.

I have argued in the past, mainly in the context of the financial crisis, that the country has been poorly served by the Justice Department's unwillingness to hold to account big shots like Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of Countrywide, whose companies' illegal practices helped lead us to the brink of financial apocalypse.

In the past people mainly voted for economic reasons, he says.

The artist, James Hart Dyke, has drawn favorable reviews for his past work, mainly his landscapes.

In the past, it mainly grappled with the exchange rate and the impact of outside events.

The numerous violent incidents India has witnessed in the past were mainly politically motivated, not due to real divisions between Hindus and Muslims.

For many 20th-century painters and sculptors, the religion-saturated art of the past served mainly as a form of instruction.