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

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1 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 " .
2 Indeed , the concept of judicial independence is deemed to entail not merely the freedom of judges from responsibility to the political executive , but their active duty to protect the citizen against the political executive or its agents , and to act , in the state 's encounter with members of society , as the defenders of the latter 's rights and liberties …
3 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 .
4 In the current Middle Eastern situation it 's as well to be reminded , for example , that of the world 's 10 largest companies , seven are car or oil companies , and that one-third of the latter 's output is in the form of petrol .
5 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 .
6 Scrope relied almost exclusively on George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , but consequently had to adapt himself to the tergiversations of the latter 's policies .
7 This , coupled with the decline of the great infectious epidemics which gave homoeopathy its signal successes , eliminated much of the gap between the orthodox and homoeopathic schools and eroded much of the latter 's popularity .
8 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 .
9 In this type of use , to is intercepted at the final moment of the movement it denotes , so that the adjective or main verb evokes not only how the person designated as the support of the infinitive was predisposed towards the realization of the latter 's event , but also his feelings at the time of its occurrence .
10 The reason has to do with the track width on the 1.2MB drive being narrower than on a 360K disk , and the failure of the latter 's drive heads to read from such a narrow track .
11 The poisonous philosophies of both Santos and Porua were banished by the sight of the latter 's daughter in her grey dress , red book in hand .
12 On Dec. 24 the Solicitor General , Donatilo — Ballesteros , ordered the dismissal and house arrest of the Attorney General , Rogelio Cruz , on suspicion of the latter 's involvement in authorizing the unfreezing of bank assets amounting to some US$38 million linked to Colombian drug cartels .
13 Although the USSR supplies the US with 33 per cent of the latter 's titanium , supply scarcities and limitations in manufacturing capability dictated producing the Mach 2.8 Mig-25 out of conventional steels ( although a titanium version was successfully flown and tested ) .
14 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 .
15 On close examination of the latter 's findings , in fact , it is difficult to say on what precise evidence they base their view , that ‘ this question of [ specialist-generic ] labour division ’ ( p. 215 ) is without either impact or ( by implication ) interest .
16 He can not sue the manufacturer for breach of the latter 's contract of sale .
17 The workshop probably has its origins a little later than the saltire/interlaced square workshop already mentioned ; indeed , it could have been a product of the latter 's contact with the later phases of the " Orpheus workshop " in c. 325 .
18 Sister , Robins , and Dr Jones came out of the latter 's office .
19 On May 8 , the day of the latter 's appearance before the House , Bush described the allegations against himself as " grossly untrue , factually incorrect , bald-faced lies " .
20 Absorbed by loving considerations of her tastes , Mitzi did not notice that Elisabeth was not replying , and her attention was drawn to her companion only when the peculiar noise of the latter 's choking was sounding right round the Hall .
21 About two years before the Government Offices competition , he met Henry H. Hofland , who worked for W. B. Moffatt after the break-up of the latter 's partnership with Scott .
22 If Bede is to be believed , Oswine proved an attractive ruler who gained the admiration of Aidan , which suggests that Oswiu faced a dangerous rival in this Deiran king whom he eventually out-manoeuvred and slew by treachery the ninth year of the latter 's reign ( HE 111 , 14 ) .
23 The value placed on these men is most clearly stated in the Treaty of Andelot , where Guntram and Childebert II settled the question of the succession and dealt with various matters which had arisen during the early years of the latter 's reign .
24 His ultimate conversion , after long and courteous discussions which added cubits to Gandhi 's stature , provided a timely justification of the latter 's claim to leadership .
25 Two of the recent decisions highlight some of the problems facing employees seeking to correlate the benefit the employer has gained with the size and nature of the latter 's business .
26 Meanwhile in Turkey itself Turkish troops on Oct. 3-4 devastated the small Kurdish towns of Kulp ( Diyarbakir province ) and Curkurca , causing half of the latter 's population of 8,000 to flee [ see p. 39114 ] , and from Oct. 5 onwards heavily bombarded PKK strongholds in the Mount Ararat region .
27 It would never have occurred to Nathan Holland , the young man on whose arm she leant , to think of such a thing ; he had worked with Paul Arkwright in the publishing house which turned out many of the latter 's books on philosophy , and soon Paul had asked him , knowing his astonishing gift for languages , if he would translate some of them .
28 On Dec. 7 Hu Jintao replaced Wu Jinghua as regional secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , apparently because of the latter 's failure to dampen the persistent Tibetan nationalist unrest .
29 The tutor is able to monitor each student 's progress by the termly receipt of a copy of the latter 's programme , and the tutor also receives copies of any letters sent to his/her students from the registry , for example after examinations committee meetings .
30 The establishment of internal controls is the responsibility of management , not of internal audit , but as a service to management it is part of the latter 's role to review , appraise and report on the soundness and adequacy of these controls .
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