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latter Adjective

— The latter half, case, etc. is the second of two. The price of oil could reach $150 by the latter half of the decade. We used soap rather than shampoo even though I prefer the latter. (here "latter" refers to shampoo, "former" would refer to soap) — The latter part of a period of time is the part near the end. The Internet only became well known in the latter part of the 20th century.

latter

— adjective referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several) in the latter case — noun the second of two or the second mentioned of two Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the latter is remembered today

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last next later second recent ultimate the second of the two subsequent rear latest last mentioned hindmost following Arreared following final afteryears aftermost B party

Topics latter topics

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States Time Relative time Before

After

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next following later subsequent succeeding ensuing after future consequent latter

States Time Relative time Order, sequence

Last

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the last the latter

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Simple sentences

Fish and meat are both nourishing, but the latter is more expensive than the former.

Of soccer and rugby, I prefer the latter.

A ronin may not have the status of a daimyo, but he has the freedom that the latter may never have.

Section 214, in my opinion one of the stranger provisions of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein's General Administrative Code, seems to imply that somebody who kidnaps a person from another one, must deliver the latter a receipt, to that effect.

The latter half of the film was interesting.

Let's hope for the latter.

The difference between a standalone sentence and a sentence in the middle of an essay is that the latter has context.

I prefer the former plan to the latter.

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.

God accepted the sacrifice of Abel and did not accept the fruits of Cain, because first you have to make a sacrifice to God, only then bear fruit, Pesach is celebrated first, only then the Sukkot, first the early rain, and only then the latter rain.

Movie subtitles

We are the army of the Church of Jesus Christ.of Latter-Day Saints!

We are the soldiers of the army of the Church.of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!

Tomorrow is a Latter Day!

Uh, we're from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Um, heh, um, um, look, maybe, maybe sometime Elder Cunningham and I could, could talk to you, maybe tell you a little bit about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?

You are the gleaming examples of Latter-Day Saints.

What's going on here is that you have all brought ridicule down onto the Latter-Day Saints.

In the latter part of the Middle Ages the earth was considered to be a stationary sphere in the middle of the universe.

To the latter part of the question as assuming a fact not yet proved.

The proprietor seems to belong more to the latter.

In the latter part of the distance, he must have been moving slower and slower.

Maybe latter.

Only in the latter stages of each ten-year cycle.

The latter included rogues, rebellious ones who attempted to destroy us.

He made his film debut in the latter in 1933.

I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.

A month later, Rommel reported to Field Marshal von Rundstedt. supreme commander in the West, at the latter's headquarters. in the Pompadour's Palace at Fontainebleau outside Paris.

The latter, I guess.

I think that the latter appears to be the most plausible.

THOUGH THE LATTER I DIOSYNCRASY M ET WITH SOME APPROVAL FROM THE ORGAN IZATION.

These latter powers will likely be eliminated before too long but mr. Dingle has an appeal to extra-terrestrial note-takers as well as to frustrated and insolvent bet-losers.

Well, i choose to do the latter.

Let's go back and give the order to arrest Morpho and Dr. Orlof. The latter for forging a death certificate.

Forester, I wanted to ask you, why do you shiver and look back all the time in these latter days?

For a wedding, a suitable choice is a kimono and Japanese headdress, though the latter may be replaced by a wig.

The latter killed him.

Among the latter are reporters and photographers from newspapers from all over the world.

Japan, as a latter-day country, the speed of its development is amazing to the world.

The latter.

If the latter, I was back to my first theory.

She went for the latter.

For what latter?

The latter reviews of the film have shown, that it was just the way Arno was depicted in the book.

I didn't so much like the latter part of the Book which is more like all preachy talking than fighting and the old in-out.

The latter is just about money.

In the latter stage of the disease, it's the strangling, not the sex, that brings them on.

The struggle of powers, which have been.. set up for directing the same socio-economic system, is deployed as official contradiction, belonging in fact to real unity, this latter takes place. on a global scale as well as within each nation.

News and current affairs

It was Japan, the high-tech country par excellence (not the latter-day Soviet Union) that proved unable to take adequate precautions to avert disaster in four reactor blocks.

If the latter are ignored, regional interests can incite chaos once again.

Hovland drew upon ideas dating back to Aristotle's Rhetoric, which argued that persuasiveness is built on the communicator's ethical character, the audience's emotional state, and the logic of the argument, the latter being the most powerful.

The Effective Altruism movement consists of people who give in the latter way, combining the head and the heart.

Are we sure that most of the growth in finance stems from a rising share of financial professionals who undertake the former rather than the latter?

The latter status may or may not include a path to residency and citizenship; fudging the issue may be a negotiating tactic to avoid debate over whether this is a form of disguised amnesty (which, fortunately, to a certain extent, it is).

The former are necessary to help Union members grow out of their increased public debt, while the latter would help them to address unemployment.

The former, represented by the United States, has broken down, and the latter, represented by China, is on the rise.

The IMF has long been a whipping boy for both left and right - the former because of the Fund's emphasis on fiscal rectitude and economic orthodoxy, and the latter because of its role in bailing out indebted nations.

In fact, the latter seems to be the price paid for the success of the former.

Or is a latter-day Yalta Conference, aimed at redrawing the political boundaries of Europe, necessary?

In the eyes of many, that would amount to America opting out of the structure of nuclear arms control built in the latter part of the Cold War.

Credit default swaps (CDS) of major southern European banks trade slightly lower than the CDS of their sovereign states, indicating that the market does not perceive the latter as able to support the former.

And this latter cost would have to be paid by all euro-zone countries.

President Barack Obama, acting as if the latter scenario remains likely, is betting on large-scale government spending to prop up the real economy.

Indeed, the North Korean threat nowadays derives more from the regime's internal weaknesses than from its aggressive external posture - the latter being the authorities' fearful response to the former.

The latter option, once unthinkable, is possible because Berlusconi is not running the type of inflammatory electoral campaign that he has in the past.

The al-Saud religious alliance with the Wahhabis and the latter's control of a rigid religious educational system must change.

While the latter number declined to 49 by December, after some of those held were freed by the courts, that is still a lot of journalists to hold in prison.

This question stands out in view of Chinese public opinion in the latter phase of the Tibet crisis.

The drivers of both the tractor and the metallic-silver luxury car were 45-year-old women, but any similarity between them ended there: the former was a peasant, the latter the wife of a wealthy businessman.

Qadri addressed the marchers repeatedly; liberally mixing political metaphors, he called himself a latter-day Mao Zedong on a journey to launch a system-cleansing jihad and initiate a Pakistani version of the Arab Spring.

And the latter is less liable than the political decision-maker who asked for it.

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