Sentence examples of "latter" in English

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Of soccer and rugby, I prefer the latter. Von Fußball und Rugby bevorzuge ich das Letztere.
A ronin may not have the status of a daimyo, but he has the freedom that the latter may never have. Ein Ronin mag nicht den Status eines Daimyo haben, aber er hat die Freiheit, die der Letztere vielleicht nie hat.
There was a time when Christopher Columbus challenged another explorer to a duel. The latter, an underhanded chap, did not take ten steps - as dictated by the rules - but two, then turned around to shoot. Unfortunately for him, Columbus hadn't taken any steps at all. Einst forderte Christoph Kolumbus einen anderen Entdecker zu einem Duell heraus. Der letztere, ein verschlagener Bursche, ging nicht zehn Schritte, wie es die Regeln vorschrieben, sondern zwei und wandte sich dann um zum Schusse. Zu seinem Unglück hatte Kolumbus gar keinen Schritt getan.
Section 214, in my opinion one of the stranger provisions of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein's General Administrative Code, seems to imply that somebody who kidnaps a person from another one, must deliver the latter a receipt, to that effect. Paragraph 214, meiner Meinung nach eine der seltsameren Vorschriften des Allgemeinen Verwaltungsgesetzes des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, scheint zu besagen, dass jemand, der einem anderen eine Person wegnimmt, diesem darüber eine Quittung auszustellen hat.
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