"formerly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The elector authorised a visitation of the church, a power formerly exercised by bishops.
- In the royal household many were reluctant to surrender the powers they had formerly exercised, and others were disappointed that the husband of the Queen was a foreigner.
- The Board exercises the appellate review authority formerly exercised by the United States District Courts.
- It assumed the role in the Irish Free State of that formerly exercised by the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom.
- In 1443, Albert formed a league directed mainly against Nuremberg, over which members of his family had formerly exercised the rights of burgrave.
- Original jurisdiction was formerly exercised by a separate provincial court, known as the Court of Audience.
- In recent decades Italy has devolved many powers formerly exercised from Rome to regional governments - with varied success.
- With all the recent mergers and consolidations of publishing houses, agents have come to fill the hand-holding and cheerleading roles formerly exercised by editors.
- Prerogative powers were formerly exercised by the monarch acting on his or her own initiative.
- It also took over almost all the powers formerly exercised by the Convocations of Canterbury and York.
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