Sentence examples for serving the former from inspiring English sources

(Like many of the men orbiting and serving the former beauty queen, he was desperately infatuated).

On 16 times consensus forecast earnings per share of 27.4p, SSL doesn't look cheap, but the recent acquisition of a further stake in BLBV [a condom business serving the former Soviet Union countries] should continue growth momentum.

As periods indicate not just ends of sentences but abbreviations as well, a capitalized word that follows often clarifies that the period was serving the former function instead of the latter.

Kids Company was squarely a child of its times, the product of a profoundly unequal city where extremes of deprivation and of privilege co-exist uneasily; the genius of Camila Batmanghelidjh was being at home in both, serving the former by prodding the conscience of the latter.

I could not help but reflect on Scargill's absence, as I spent two hours on the BBC's local radio circuit on the Tuesday morning after her death, giving interviews to the local radio stations serving the former coalfields of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, the presenters told their listeners Scargill had rejected all requests for interviews and they asked me why.

The more the National Book Awards serve the former, the less relevance they'll have to the latter.

But the chits he will retain from Mr. Simon, a wealthy investor himself, should serve the former mayor well in the capital raising game.

A sedative pill like Xanax might better serve the former, and an upper like cocaine the latter, with their more targeted and "clean" physiological effects.

The polar bear's claws are short and stocky compared to those of the brown bear, perhaps to serve the former's need to grip heavy prey and ice.

Johnston was one of the few Virginia men eligible to hold office: at the time, anyone who had fought for, or served, the former Confederacy was ineligible to hold office under the Fourteenth Amendment until their "political disabilities" were removed by Congress by a two-thirds vote.

Premiere Electric is a new electrical contracting firm that Robin has started to serve the former Gardner and Miller customers, as well as expand her services to new customers in the tri-county area.