If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.
To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.
I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.
If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.
Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.
As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.
America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place of former civilizations, including Adam's, the Jaredites', and Nephites'.
Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.
The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
