Former in sentence

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This has been at the front of my mind lately, because I can't help but see in our public discourse so many of the same destructive impulses that ruled my former church.

In any event, here's former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.

This work will not always be easy, but former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall has told us, "We must dissent.

Now, if we slip to another end of the world, I was up in the high Arctic to tell a story about global warming, inspired in part by the former Vice President's wonderful book.

I also learned that our most admirable education reformers, people like Arne Duncan, the former US Secretary of Education, or Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach For America, had never attended an inner city public school like I had.

But for our purposes, chief among them was training yourself to separate what you can control from what you cannot control, and then doing exercises to focus exclusively on the former.

I mean, I love these guys, the former guys who used to take the algorithms from Las Vegas slot machines and put them in our social media feed so that we get addicted.

Here's former Google designer, Tristan Harris.

For my 13th birthday, my grandpa, a former Navy pilot, gave me the gift of being able to fly a very small plane.

So we have a network of former extremists and survivors of extremism that tell their stories through video and create question-giving to classrooms, to start a conversation about the topic.

These two examples show Christianne, who lost her son, who radicalized and died fighting for ISIS, and Daniel is a former neo-Nazi who was an extremely violent neo-Nazi, and they pose questions about their lives and where they're at and regret, and force a classroom to have a dialogue around it.

Even more downstream, we developed a pilot program called "One to One," where we took former extremists and we had them reach out directly to a group of labeled neofascists as well as Islamist extremists, and put direct messages through Facebook Messenger into their inbox, saying, "Hey, I see where you're going.

It's a little alarming to have a former neo-Nazi say, "Hey, how are you?"

So we work with networks of former extremists.

As a prisoner of war, he lived in a former slaughterhouse in Dresden, where he took refuge in an underground meat locker while Allied forces bombed the city.

And so I then started visiting some of the pages of my former trolls, and a lot of these guys were just regular Joes, a lot of outdoorsmen, hunters, computer nerds, some of them family guys with videos of their families.

I was paroled in June 2014, following my third hearing before a panel of former law-enforcement officials who were tasked with determining my current threat level to society.

But I pulled a hamstring in training camp, and so what every former NFL player does, they go work for NASA, right?

Leviathan traditional partners, they all look like the Brits and their former colonies.

And it's particularly not secure in the former Soviet Union, now in Russia.

So I wanted to work with him, but he didn't want a former birdwatcher, and I ended up in Cambridge, England.

Others were uncomfortable with his former communist affiliation.

Both men had been murdered by Dan White, a former fellow supervisor, who had positioned himself against those he called "radicals, social deviates and incorrigibles.”

The former overlords should have had an advantage.

It's a commission brought together by former UK Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown.

So I asked a former professor of mine who had retired, his name is Bob Osteen, and he agreed to come to my operating room and observe me.

The problem is obviously relevant to our situation today, because today as well, there are some societies that have already collapsed, such as Somalia and Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.

But he bought his supplies from his former employer, and the resentful man sold him rotten herbs.

Xu Xian’s former boss even had to buy back some of the rotten herbs to treat his own family.

And I think that the former is what we really need to strive for.

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