Example sentences of "latter [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , David Poole sees the distinction between photography and portraiture as vital to the latter 's resurgence .
2 The leader of the Southern Society , Pavel Pestel — executed , not exiled — was the son of the notorious Governor-General mentioned earlier ; G. S. Batenkov , himself of Siberian origin , acted as a close personal aide to Speranskii during the latter 's governorship ; Baron V.I .
3 Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc has announced a global technology transfer agreement with Jtec Pty Ltd from somewhere Down Under , through which it will incorporate the latter 's ISDN terminal adaptor technology into the hot new Retix RISC-based RouterXchange 7000 multiprotocol router .
4 There must , therefore , be some interaction between the radiation and the electron , and the latter 's state of motion is perturbed in consequence .
5 But the latter 's pause was often to hold the dancers in perfect 5th positions of both arms and feet .
6 It is no accident that the most gripping section of his latest novel , The Innocent ( Cape , hbk £12.95 ) , is the part where his hero and heroine dismember the corpse of the latter 's ex-husband .
7 He was an active member of the monthly , quarterly , and yearly meetings of the Society of Friends , of its committee for sufferings , and of the latter 's subcommittee for American affairs .
8 BIIBA has now made a strong complaint to Fimbra about the latter 's decision to withdraw from an agreement made on 18 September which would have allowed BIIBA members , who held existing professional indemnity cover , to renew their existing policies .
9 It was reported on Nov. 19 that North Korea had threatened to suspend all channels of negotiation with South Korea , following the latter 's decision to resume in early 1993 the " Team Spirit " annual joint military exercises with the USA .
10 The integration was achieved through a strategic alliance with Wellfleet Communications Inc under which Optical Data incorporated the latter 's Link Node router technology into the new Infinity hub family , said to combine switching , advanced management and full bridge-routing capabilities .
11 If that 's the big success that everyone predicts , Donington could keep the European Grand Prix and emerge as a rival to Silverstone when the latter 's contract for the British Grand Prix runs out in l996 .
12 He can not sue the manufacturer for breach of the latter 's contract of sale .
13 Since his first meeting with Wagner in 1868 he had known of the latter 's conviction that Schopenhauer was " the only philosopher who had understood the essence of music " .
14 The balance between the Bank 's traditional operations and those of the IFC should be shifted further in the latter 's direction ; that is why the IFC 's capital increase ought to go ahead .
15 On Russian television on July 4 , Yeltsin said that Kozyrev 's remarks had been assessed at the Security Council as " harmful " , and suggested that if Kozyrev wanted to " be a prophet like [ Eduard ] Shevardnadze , then act like Shevardnadze " ( a reference to the latter 's resignation as Soviet Foreign Minister in December 1990 after warning of an impending coup — see p. 37903 ) .
16 In the circumstances , the latter 's preference for Model B was understandable in that it might seem to offer the degree of financial and educational independence which their maturity now merited .
17 Between at least 1520 and 1523 he was with Richard Pynson [ q.v. ] , then king 's printer , in the latter 's printing house beside St Dunstan 's Church in the West , signing prose or verse to the reader , still as Bercula , in Pynson editions of Robert Whittinton 's Vulgaria ( STC 25570 ) and John Constable 's Epigrammata ( STC 5639 ) in the former year and John Fitzherbert 's Boke of surveyeng ( STC 11005 ) in the latter year .
18 By the end of the month the French , United Kingdom and United States governments had committed troops to maintain " safe havens " within Iraq , despite the latter 's condemnation , and UN relief agencies confirmed on April 29 that Kurdish refugees who had fled Iraq were returning home at the rate of 20,000 a day .
19 Mercury Communications Ltd has announced that for a monthly subscription of £135 , any customer , whether a subscriber to British Telecommunications Plc or Mercury , can now use two of the latter 's range of Callink services .
20 In 1532 he was sent as Ambassador to the German Emperor , nominally to discuss the latter 's plan for European action against the Turks , but secretly to explore a possible alliance for England with some of the Protestant German princes .
21 Douglas Hurd , the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , visited Hong Kong and China on April 2-9 for discussions aimed at settling the ongoing conflict between China and the Hong Kong government over the latter 's plan to build a new airport and port complex [ see p. 37961 ] .
22 Meanwhile relations between Childebert and Guntram had soured over the latter 's treatment of lands once held by Sigibert .
23 The Soviet Union entered 1991 without a budget , and with the USSR and Russian Federation governments locked in a dispute over the latter 's budget contributions .
24 The meeting had originally been scheduled to start on July 1 , but had been delayed as a result of Sri Lanka 's announcement on June 24 that it would not participate because of India 's refusal to agree on the withdrawal of the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) from Sri Lanka by the latter 's deadline of July 29 [ see p. 36735 ] .
25 Although physiologically naive to suggest , as some have , that the seat of creativity lies in the right hemisphere , the latter 's contribution must be considered of unique importance , given what is known about its style of cognitive processing .
26 A number of disclosures were made between November 1989 and February 1990 of secret arrangements between the government and British Aerospace ( BAe ) in relation to the latter 's purchase of the motor manufacturer Rover Group .
27 Fraser and Ramsay had agreed that , since it was all the latter 's idea and the former was a man of action rather than words , Ramsay should do most of the talking .
28 The former have invested considerable sums of money in the latter 's capital and money markets ( see Table 2.2 page 53 ) .
29 Apparently Tom DiCillo cut his cinematic teeth working with Jim Jarmusch , and his directorial debut Johnny Suede certainly shows signs of the latter 's influence , as it doodles out a familiarly minimal comedy around a cool fool who learns the limits of his own hip moves .
30 It is the latter 's contention that Ultimate Concern , the holy or unconditional , expresses itself in a variety of forms : in painting , which may have no religious content in the traditional sense ; in philosophy , when attempts are made to understand the nature of ultimate reality ; in ideologies which might normally be regarded as secular , such as , nationalism , socialism and humanism ; and in traditional religions .
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