Sentence examples for the former claimed from inspiring English sources

The former claimed the one wicket to fall when, from around the wicket in the seventh over of the session, he trapped the nightwatchman, Chris Wright, lbw for 22 with a ball that straightened.

Arrington and Andrew 'amateur hater' Keen had an argument at Le Web over whether (as the former claimed) 'privacy is dead'.

What the G-20 Resistance Project actually succeeded in doing was antagonizing the locals that the former claimed to represent.

Events like Lights All Night, which, between Dallas and El Paso, attracted 40,000 people this year, are considerably smaller than West Coast powerhouses like Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas and Beyond Wonderland in San Bernardino; by comparison, the former claimed 400,000 attendees last year.

Jowett, a producer for ABC Sports, was assigned to report on Antley in the spring of 1999, after he had won the Derby with the former claiming horse Charismatic.

When asked if they would prefer to input configuration commands to the assistive mobile application using short sentences (e.g., "Change to vibration mode") or single words ("Vibration"), 60% chose the former claiming this format would be less ambiguous while 40% opted for the latter opining that it would enable faster delivery and interpretation of commands.

Earl Patrick was able to use the poor relationship between the elderly father Edward and his son, (the former claiming William fired muskets at him and grabbed him by the neck like a dog) to take action.

Other local, regional and international channels broadcasting in Arabic have jumped on the bandwagon in a bid to capture Arab audiences, but Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya hold sizable pan-Arab viewership, with the former claiming to reach the largest number of viewers.

Contemporary commentators and modern historians alike have condemned the system; the former claim it encouraged the poor in idleness, while the latter stress the opportunity it gave unscrupulous employers and landlords to reduce wages and raise rents respectively, knowing their depredations would be redressed from the public pocket.

Slim Shady, the alter-ego supposedly killed off at the conclusion of Encore, returns to dominate another albumful of homicidal fantasies and allegations of sexual abuse and parental drug addiction - although the former claim in "Insane" may be just a legally-dubious extension of the lyrical conceit that the rapper is/was "fucked in the head".

Glick Schiller disputes the former claim, which she describes as a "communitarian just-so story".