Sentence examples for was formerly held from inspiring English sources

The post was formerly held by new Telewest managing director of broadband David Docherty.

The Palace is being built on an empty parcel of land where the New Jersey Renaissance Kingdom was formerly held.

The post was formerly held by Bjørn Lomborg, who had generated controversy in his criticism of views held by many environmentalists.

It was formerly held by Tom DeLay, a committed partisan who resigned in 2006 amid allegations of corruption and money-laundering.

The position was formerly held by Alistair Sinclair, the institute's founding associate director, who stepped down at the end of his second term this summer.

It was formerly held, under the practice which disqualified interested witnesses, that a liability for costs was sufficient to render a witness incompetent. 1 Greenl.

ESPN, the US sports broadcaster owned by Disney, has won the rights to screen 46 live Premier League matches next season which were formerly held by Setanta.

The Hamdan defense has worried prosecutors by winning the right to submit written questions to four detainees who were formerly held in secret C.I.A. prisons.

" What is unusual is that normally members added in this way are more centrist than the base, because they have to be in order to win in districts that were formerly held by the other party," Mr. Cain added.

The project appears to be a proposed replacement for Camp 7, where so-called high-value detainees who were formerly held by the Central Intelligence Agency – like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described architect of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 – are housed.

The rights were formerly held by Chorion, a media outfit of which Lord Alli was chairman until its majority shareholder, the private-equity firm 3i, wound it up in 2011.