Sentence examples for the former viewpoint from inspiring English sources

The latter essentially comes from biblical religion; the former viewpoint tends to treat time cyclically and mythically referring to foundational events, such as the creation, the beginning of the human race, and the Fall of man, on to illud tempus (the sacred primordial time), which is re-enacted in the repetitions of the ritual and in the retelling of the myth.

The former viewpoint challenges the mantra that mechanical ventilation is invariably harmful and that a safe limit for airway pressure may not even exist.

Writing in the pithy style of his former Viewpoint column, Nils has kicked off his new blog with a critical look at Tesco's Big Price Drop.

In the meantime, the debate will continue as to whether chemotherapy should be presumed 'innocent until proven guilty' or 'guilty until proven innocent': although the Hippocratic ethical maxim "First, do no harm" favors the latter from the viewpoint of the fetus, an assumption of gestational chemotherapy efficacy will favor the former from the viewpoint of the mother.

She could almost have been one of Isabel's new friends, who were mostly either younger or recently arrived in this town, though there were a few older, once more cautious residents, who had been swept up in this bright new era, their former viewpoints dismissed and their language altered, straining to be crisp and crude.

Also, the Clinton campaign's perpetual use of euphemisms, from "witch hunt," "mistake," "evolve," "convenience," "Benghazi," "BS scandal," "shouting," and "responsibility" ("I take full responsibility" is a phrase used often) contributes to the viewpoint that the former Secretary of State isn't trustworthy.

Howells said Bush was trying to "justify what he did to the world", a viewpoint echoed by the former shadow home secretary David Davis.

That's the viewpoint of Bruce Katz, the former director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and Aaron Chatterji of Duke University who asserts that because of increasing partisanship and political and policy realities the states can no longer be looked at as "laboratories of democracy".

We're told that Osborne had "always been sceptical about eco-politics", a viewpoint much encouraged by the former Conservative Chancellor under Thatcher, Nigel Lawson.

This morning, No Labels co-chair Jon Huntsman, Jr. (R), the former Utah governor, explained the group's viewpoint this way: "We're tired of single issue, special interest grandstanding".

An example of that viewpoint was expressed recently by the former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Morell.