Sentence examples for the former phrase from inspiring English sources

If the former phrase implies the firms would collect multi-million fees only if BHS was sold, it would raise big ethical questions.

The origin of the former phrase is disputed – there are at least two claims to have invented it several years before the Mexico World Cup in 1986, but that is when it became internationally known; as for the latter, it was coined by a Swiss-born, US-based writer, Georges Surdez, but the practice dates back to at least the 19th century – in Russia.

On the same topic of defeating performance anxiety, Grant also suggests not telling yourself "I can do it," but instead asking yourself, "Can I do it?" That's because with the former phrase, it's easy to get complacent -- people "feel good, but if they think they can do it, they don't get motivated to prepare and try," he says.

The former phrasing activates an "it's over" mindset for the voters whereas the latter phrasing activates a completely different drive -- the basic human desire to root for the underdog.

Shortly after the wall went up in 1961, I visited that city and, after Tempelhof airport, famous from the airlift, my first experience was the tumult of a torchlight parade "gegen Schandmauer und Stacheldraht" (against the wall of shame and barbed wire, the former a phrase of the mayor, Willy Brandt).

He contrasts two accounts of birdsong by Browning and Chekhov: the former polishes phrases to record the 'careless rapture' of lyrical sound, while the latter exerts himself to imagine how a peasant would really hear a bird.

For the former issue, the phrase "informed consent" is often used to express an opportunity to disclose medical conditions and recommended treatment choices.

The former targets 'one'-phrases in VO, while the latter searches for 'one'-phrases in OV.

"You cannot have your cake and eat it," said an EU diplomat, echoing a phrase the former mayor of London used during the campaign and which looks set to come back to haunt him.

In Democrat Clark Clifford's memorable phrase, the former President was "an amiable dunce".

Cooke observes that of all the Prix Étranger winners from the inter-war years, only Cold Comfort Farm and Woolf's To the Lighthouse are remembered today, and that only the former has bequeathed a phrase that has passed into common usage: "something nasty in the woodshed".