Sentence examples for the former position from inspiring English sources

For students who held the former position, a positive attitude to Christianity revealed a negative attitude to science.

"I remained in the former position -- without the security aspect.

The former position, Shaykh Aḥmad felt, led to pantheism, which was contrary to the tenets of Sunnite Islam.

The former position, which deals with Berkshire's strategic acquisitions and the operations of its businesses, has presented less of a mystery.

The former position was assumed by Philippe Pétain, the "Hero of Verdun" and later the head of the France's Vichy government during World War II.

Because glaciers must originate above the snowline, a survey of the elevations of ancient cirques provides information on climatic change and on the former position of the snow line.

The white lines in stage "40 Ma - present" represent the former positions of plate boundaries or the base of the upper plate in stage "45-40 Ma".

Consequently, the internal structure of the Dogger Bank thrust-moraine complexes can be directly related to ice sheet dynamics, recording the former positions of a highly dynamic, oscillating Weichselian ice sheet margin as it retreated northwards at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum.

The second dorsal and anal fins are tiny, with the former positioned ahead of the latter.

At 12 00, the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry, secured the former positions of the 2nd Battalion, 24th Infantry, and took over the same foxholes that unit had abandoned two nights before.

The double bottom below the former positions of aft turrets was converted to hold fuel oil; this increased the ships' endurance to 9500 nautical miles at a speed of 16 knots.