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He's a former student of mine.
Tom met his former schoolmate in the street and acted as if he hadn't known him.
Some of my former schoolmates already have grandchildren.
Kyoto was the former capital of Japan.
Fish and meat are both nourishing, but the latter is more expensive than the former.
Joan and Jane are sisters. The former is a pianist.
In former days people walked from Edo to Kyoto.
Is it a good idea to hire former hackers to work as security professionals?
He was not at all thankful to his former teacher.
Our former home was in Sweden.
Tom saw his former employer at a conference.
Bulgaria is the only country in Europe where a former monarch has been elected prime minister.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Kyoto is the former capital of Japan.
He was only a shadow of his former self.
The other day I met my former neighbour in the city.
I prefer the former plan to the latter.
Former pop stars are just plain old women by the time they're 40.
The former is inferior to the latter in some respect.
I like a dog better than a cat, for the former is more faithful than the latter.
I like dogs better than cats, because the former are more faithful than the latter.
I prefer Noh to Kabuki, because the former looks more elegant to me than the latter.
Practice is as important as theory, but we are apt to value the latter and despise the former.
When I met my former teacher, he inquired after my parents.
The suicide bomber fired towards former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but missed.
The most terrible enemy is a former friend.
Movie subtitles
The son of former Captain Kururugi, Private Kururugi Suzaku.
You punk now dare to put your knife at my neck, the youngest son of Kim Eung Boo, who used to be Minister of Education and the former prime minister?
It says that there will be funeral for the daughter of the former Magistrate Lee.
Didn't we first meet at the former Magistrate's daughter's funeral?
From the content, it seems to be one of her former students.
The first is Pierre Leclerc, sniper, former member of the Foreign Legion, mercenary at present.
Corporal Elizabeth Laeken, former Delta.
I will wait for you on Wednesday at midnight in your former room.
Farandola arrives at apes island to seek help from his former comrades.
You need have no fear of meeting your former husband.
In the safety of an orphanage, the former street urchin is immersed in reading about real cowboys.
He looks like former manager of the office, Your Honour.
Our former colleague who got into trouble with foreign currency?
I received money from her on former occasions.
Ivan, it would seem your former comrades are more competent than they appear.
Former lead actor in all genres.
He's a shell of his former self, which nobody can deny.
My father's former calling was humble. He was a sexton.
This former glory was enticed into a trap. And the old ham had his throat slit.
The former Grand Duchess.
The accused Maria Stewart, former queen of Scotland, has again addressed a letter to her majesty from Fotheringhay castle.
The supreme court of the English Crown condemns Maria Stewart, former queen of Scotland to death by beheading.
He won't harm you. You're a rascal, like your former master.
Will you be comfortable under a former, fellow clerk? Working under a younger man?
Aren't you Ted Hanover's former dancing partner?
As a former governor so aptly put it.
It is said that he personally came to see the former King.
Yes, at the home of his former clerk.
Mama had 2 children by a former husband.
I'm a little bit rusty for a former amateur champion.
You know, Wash. I mean, the sheriff and me. have been pestering you with a lot of questions. - about the former sheriff Keogh.
You knew the former Mrs. De Winter very well, I believe?
My former friend here claimed I wouldn't have a chance even if I stayed.
A good German of the former Germany.
You, The-Law, a former gendarme?
Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth do all expect that you should rouse yourself, as did the former lions of your blood.
Which to reduce into our former favour, you are assembled.
News and current affairs
A different kind of revolution was taking place in Europe's former colonies in Asia, where native peoples had no desire to be ruled once more by Western powers, which had been so ignominiously defeated by Japan.
On the contrary, expansion takes away the worries - be they real or imagined - that surround the situation of the large Russian-speaking populations that now live outside of Russia but within the borders of the former Soviet Union.
Instead, Portuguese workers are fleeing to booming former colonies such as Brazil and Macau.
Like former Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, the only other KGB man to rule Russia, Putin will become the party's general secretary.
Russia would be furious, because it fears that Kosovo's secession - whether or not it is internationally recognized - might fuel separatist movements in the former Soviet empire.
Former perpetrators often try to de-legitimize their former victims' moral superiority by claiming they were victims themselves.
Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir belonged to that category.
BERKELEY - Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure.
Among the former socialist economies of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, few have caught up with real output levels that prevailed before 1990.
Finally, donor countries must apply the lessons learned in restoring the war-ravaged states of the former Yugoslavia.
But many politicians defend Stanculescu; among them, the current Defense Minister Victor Babiuc, former President Ion Iliescu, and most top army officers.
Eight of the new members are former Communist countries that were locked behind the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.
Former President George W. Bush once explained terrorism as the expression of hatred for American freedom.
Meanwhile, in about 2005, I was in South Africa with a small group advising former President Thabo Mbeki and his government about its IT policy.
The Taliban are now an increasingly spent force, but lack of water reinforced the logic of opium production across its former strongholds in the south.
It was 30 years ago that former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, the father of today's prime minister, signed a Peace and Friendship Treaty with China.
In Nigeria, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has a huge diversified farm and has pushed for policies to help absentee farmers prosper.
More people are not supporting Koizumi's annual pilgrimage to Yasukuni, with seven former prime ministers jointly demanding that he refrain from the visits.
Unlike former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's daughter, who lost her presidential bid in Peru last month, Park is likely to defy her family's tragic history.
So why did a gentle former literature professor named Liu Xiaobo have to be sentenced to 11 years in prison, just because he publicly advocated freedom of expression and an end to one-party rule?
The success that US President George W. Bush and his special envoy, former Secretary of State James Baker, had in getting Iraq's foreign debts canceled or rescheduled shows what can be done when a policy is backed by political will.
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