Kyoto was the former capital of Japan.

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

The company took action against its former accountant.

Love is above money. The latter can't give as much happiness as the former.

I prefer the former plan to the latter.

Television has robbed cinema of its former popularity.

Joan and Jane are sisters. The former is a pianist.

Of these two opinions, I prefer the latter to the former.

Former pop stars are just plain old women by the time they're 40.

The former is inferior to the latter in some respect.

He pointed out that the former was inferior to the latter in some respects.

Everyone is anxious to know what has become of the former champion.

Since graduation fifteen years ago I have never run into my former classmates.

Health is above wealth, for the former is more important than the latter.

Health is above wealth; the latter gives less fortune than the former.

Mr Suzuki, who is a former Prime Minister, will be chairman of the committee.

I met an old friend, and what was more strange, my former teacher.

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.

In former days people walked from Edo to Kyoto.

The former captain was superior to the present one.

Many support the former alternative, but I prefer the latter.

The former is better than the latter.

Out of the two designs, I prefer the former to the latter.

All political dissidents were purged under the former regime.

He regretted having been lazy in the former term.

He was far from thankful to his former teacher.

After her sickness, she's only a shadow of her former self.

She was only a shadow of her former self after her illness.

If she finds out that that uniform was one I bought to get my former girlfriend to be a pretend 'high school girl' ...

It is important to maintain backward compatibility with software that was written to run on the former system.

Newly weds but with a child? Yes, that's right - the son is from the father's former marriage. He's been divorced once.

The former president of a certain association has been arrested on suspicion of breach of trust.

Deposed in a military coup in September 2006 and having effectively been in exile, the Former premier of Thailand Thaksin has returned after about a year and a half.

The suicide bomber fired towards former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but missed.

Robert Hansen was arrested on suspicion of having sold off secret information to the former Soviet Union.

I shook hands with the former student.

In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils.

Former Olympic fencing champion Pál Schmitt has been elected President of Hungary.

Is it a good idea to hire former hackers to work as security professionals?

Bombay is the former name of Mumbai and was given to it by the English.

If a coach is on a couch that's on a coach and the latter has a driver, then all is fine. If a coach is on a couch that's on a coach, but the driver drives the former, then the couch is crushed and the coach is dead.

He was not at all thankful to his former teacher.

Our former home was in Sweden.

Tom saw his former employer at a conference.

The Coliseum was the former arena in ancient Rome.

The former Argentine currency was Austral. Its symbol was "₳".

France's currency was the franc, and its symbol was ₣. While it is no longer used in France, francs are still in use in some former French colonies such as Guinea.

The former Italian currency was the lira and its symbol was "₤". It's not related to the Turkish lira.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing part, the latter the executive part.

Vera had to disassociate herself from her former best friends, who got into drugs.

She was a former first lady.

He was a former United States Marine.

He was a former university professor and researcher.

Bulgaria is the only country in Europe where a former monarch has been elected prime minister.

The newly promoted junior manager, drunk with power, lorded it over his former co-workers.

With deep and reverent awe I replaced the candelabrum in its former position.

Tom is Mary's former husband.

The former kings are not forgotten.

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.

It is true that Aristotle distinguishes the tyrant from the king by the fact that the former governs in his own interest, and the latter only for the good of his subjects; but it would follow from Aristotle's distinction that, from the very beginning of the world, there has not yet been a single king.

The former President's death was announced.

He was only a shadow of his former self.

The late Freddie Mercury, former lead singer of Queen, had a vocal range of four octaves.

Tom is a former paratrooper.

Kyoto is Japan's former capital.

The other day I met my former neighbour in the city.

The most terrible enemy is a former friend.

The former president of the United States is the only American who knows the president of every country.

Antigua and Barbuda is a former British colony.

Mitt Romney is the former governor of Massachusetts.

The French and the English like drinking, but the latter prefer beer whereas the former go in for red wine.

She's only a shell of her former self.

Belarus has been described by former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice as "the last remaining true dictatorship in the heart of Europe".

Of your two suggestions, I think I prefer the former.

He's a former student of mine.

He's a former president of the country.

Tom is former CIA.

Tom is former FBI.

Tom is former NYPD.

The former half of the film was dull.

If there be nothing, but that which is has been before, how are our brains beguiled, which, laboring for invention, bear amiss the second burden of a former child!

I just ran into one of my former students.

Tom is one of our former clients.

Angela Merkel grew up in the former German Democratic Republic.

She's a former child actor.

He's a former child actor.

Tom is a former student of mine.

In English there is a choice between closed and open punctuation; in the former, the writer uses all punctuation that can legitimately be used, whereas in the latter the writer leaves out all punctuation that can be left out without creating ambiguity.

I saw his former employer at a conference.

You saw your former employer at a conference, didn't you?

He saw his former employer at a conference.

She saw her former employer at a conference.

Mary saw her former employer at a conference.

We saw our former employer at a conference.

They saw their former employer at a conference.