Sentence examples for the former views from inspiring English sources

Granted that one's views on what there is, and what it is like, will have ramifications for one's views on what there could be and what it could be like (most obviously, because things could be the way they are; but there may be more interesting and subtle connections as well); still, the project of laying out the former views does not automatically complete the project of laying out the latter.

Davies [ 107] seeks to differentiate between statist and globalist perspectives, noting that the former views GHG as a tool for state-centric governance, whereas the latter sees GHG as "a new form of politics that transcends state sovereignty and directs the focus on individuals and their vulnerabilities".

Wason Center's polling supports the former view.

Can introspection really support the former view over the latter?

Commonwealthers hold the former view; statehooders and independentistas the latter.

Libertarians endorse the former view, while the "republican" tradition, Pettit claims, has historically upheld the latter.

Chemero argues for the former view in a volume that is smart, accessible, and engaging.

On the former view, expulsion would require some sort of fault.

These understandings updated the former view that only mud shale source rock was dominantly developed in the closed continental lake.

Miller reports that Pauli inclined to the former view, Jung the latter.

I've always taken the former view and so, clearly, does Bondy.