Sentence examples for the former sort from inspiring English sources

The former sort can be presented, even in Birch histories less personal than hers, as pardonable or consoling.

The former sort class included six sort rules and the latter class included four sort rules (Table 1).

As we have seen, commonly cited examples of the former sort are \(\sc{TSP}\) and \(\sc{INTEGER}\ \sc{PROGRAMMING}\).

Conflicts of the former sort arise because of the agent's own wrongdoing (Aquinas; Donagan 1977 , 1984 and McConnell 1978).

Those of the former sort suggest that haecceities are logically simple, the latter that they are logically complex.

It's obviously viciously circular to ground promissory obligations in a contract of the former sort, but not the latter.

After all, one cannot simply weigh agent-relative reasons against agent-neutral reasons, without stripping the former sorts of reasons of their distinctive character.

My respect for such a law is thus not qualified: my respect for the laws of my club, city, constitution or religion guides me in practical affairs only insofar as they do not require me to violate laws laid down by my own practical reason, but my respect for the deliverances of my own reason does not depend on whether it requires me to violate the former sorts of laws.

Let us call former sort of argument "the argument from lack of explanatory necessity" and the second sort, "the argument from inexplicability of reliability".

While we categorized the former two sort rules as expert-like because of their conceptual nature, the latter rule was not because "observation" is a conceptually basic scientific concept (even though no novices used "observable" as a sort rule).

The whole set of data analyzed in terms of the C18 1/C18 20 ratio as a function of the C18 2/C18 20 ratio shows that the former, a sort of selectivity, depends on the agitation regime.