Sentence examples for with a formerly from inspiring English sources

Some 61.3 % of voters cast ballots after a constitutional change earlier this year did away with a formerly convoluted parliamentary process that was rife with backroom dealing.

A decade on, an autonomous Kurdistan is now the most secure and prosperous region of Iraq and enjoys close relations with a formerly hostile Turkey.

Glatze can't see what's wrong with a formerly gay man proclaiming "Turn or burn!" any more than Skylark is aware of his own intellectual impoverishment.

Biggest missed opportunity: Ford Taurus, a transformation in which a big car with a formerly cavernous interior now manages to feel pinched on the inside.

And now the Democrats must reckon with a formerly safe Senate seat sliding into the contested zone, in a state that has been a holdout in the Republican South.

Combine this with being laid off, and the combination of joblessness and loss of health insurance can leave a middle-class family, even one with a formerly "high middle class" income, dangerously exposed.

Lincoln Center did just that with the David Rubenstein Atrium, a formerly forlorn space between 62nd and 63rd Streets, creating a lively public arts hub.

Certainly the hard-bitten skulduggery she displays in the film, which premiered on Friday night, is nothing like the winsome antics once associated with a star formerly known to the world as Miss Congeniality.

The city's canals have been restored, with boats now dotting a formerly dilapidated harbour.

He discussed homosexuality with another prisoner, "George", a formerly married physician who told Berkman about his own homosexual prison affair.

He's about six feet tall and balding, with the physique of a formerly skinny computer nerd entering middle age after a lifetime of Funyuns and Jolt.