Here he defines his genre against a ( probably fictional ) critic ( in the latter half of 2. 77 ):

Functional theories of grammar differ from formal theories of grammar, in that the latter seeks to define the different elements of language and describe the way they relate to each other as systems of formal rules or operations, whereas the former defines the functions performed by language and then relates these functions to the linguistic elements that carry them out.

Some restaurants might use the suffix-zen ( 膳 ) as a classier though dated synonym to the more familiar, since the latter basically is a term for a combo meal served at a, akin to a diner .. Teishoku means a meal of fixed menu, a dinner à prix fixe served at or, which is somewhat vague ( shokudō can mean a diner type restaurant or a corporate lunch hall ); but e. g. defines it as fare served at, etc., a diner-like establishment.

In derivative classes, the former contains code that will undo that command, and the latter returns a boolean value that defines if the command is undoable.

She characterizes the latter as predominantly negative and proscriptive: it defines a person ’ s territory, including his or her property and dependents, which is not to be damaged or interfered with.

This difference is caused by a difference in definition: the latter stance defines a High German variety as one that has taken part in any of the first three phases of the High German consonant shift.

Forrester defines the latter, narrower business intelligence market as " referring to just the top layers of the BI architectural stack such as reporting, analytics and dashboards.

The first one defines the Bay of Puck, the latter one defines the Vistula Lagoon.

His Treatise of Faith ( 1632 ), and Friendly Trial of the Grounds tending to Separation ( 1640 ), the latter of which defines his position with regard to the church, are also valuable.

For example, there are " voluntary activities, where each individual makes his or her own decision whether to buy, sell, or hold " but there are also what he defines as " oercive activities, where each individual security holder is forced to go along … provided that a requisite majority of other security holders so vote …" His examples of the latter include proxy voting, most merger and acquisition transactions, certain cash tender offers, and reorganization or liquidation in bankruptcy.

The latter defines the outline as the sum of the minimum number of ellipses required to mimic the shape.

The latter is largely negative and proscriptive: it defines a person ’ s territory, which is not to be invaded, stolen or damaged, such as his or her property, dependants and family.

" For Decroux, attitude is more important than gesture or actual movement and he defines the latter as a succession of attitudes.

Since the latter excludes black holes, one defines a weakly asymptotically simple manifold as a manifold M with an open set U ⊂ M isometric to a neighbourhood of the boundary of, where is the conformal compactification of some asymptotically simple manifold.

The latter conception defines God through a series of explicit positive statements called cataphatic theology, themselves universal but in the divine taken to their superlative degrees: as well as being explicitly male, he is omniscient and omnipotent.

* Family: The Family value defines what type of font is being classified, which affects the valid values available for the latter categories, and the categories available.

In the latter part of the century the Greeks became locked in a bitter war among themselves, with the major cities Athens and Sparta competing for absolute domination.

After concluding a diplomatic mission to Sparta during the latter part of which Menelaus was absent to attend the funeral of his maternal grandfather Catreus, Paris absconded to Troy with Helen in tow despite his brother Hector forbidding her to depart with them.

The major rivers of Alleghany County are the New River, and the Little River ; the latter flows through the town of Sparta, the county seat.

Tyrtaeus ( also Tyrtaios, ) was a Greek poet who composed verses in Sparta around the time of the Second Messenian War, the date of which isn't clearly established — sometime in the latter part of the seventh century BC.

In the latter context, the term " Spartan " in its most technical sense refers to a member of the Spartiate caste and under some usages also encompasses the class of mothakes, residents of Sparta who were free but did not enjoy full political rights.

Agis and Cleombrotus fled for sanctuary, the former to the temple of Athena Chalcioecus in Sparta, the latter to the temple of Poseidon ( or Apollo ) at Taenarum.

Archidamus III, king of Sparta, fell beneath its walls in 338 BC, while leading the army of the latter ( Manduria is also referred to as " Mandonion " in works by the Greek and Roman historian Plutarch ).

The latter had a daughter, Sparta, but no sons.

Analogously, anyone who argues that Einstein's theory of gravitation is simpler than Newton's, must say rather more to explain how it is that the latter is mastered by student-physicists, while the former can be managed ( with difficulty ) only by accomplished experts.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

The first time I saw the latter filly she trotted by me and I noticed such a family resemblance that I said to myself, `` that must be Hickory Ash ''.

Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.

The latter adhesive was found to be much more satisfactory.

Any animal could when travelin' fast, be sent heels over head by the simple process of overtakin' the brute, seizin' its tail, and givin' the latter a pull to one side.

and the latter is the total sum of all the numbers in the square, by which all the other numbers are overshadowed and in which they may be said to be absorbed.

In one famous example, he counsels Alexander to be ' a leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants '.

The latter is not to be confused with TA ( NPL ), which denotes an independent atomic time scale, not synchronised to TAI or to anything else.

The standard ampere is most accurately realized using a watt balance, but is in practice maintained via Ohm's Law from the units of electromotive force and resistance, the volt and the ohm, since the latter two can be tied to physical phenomena that are relatively easy to reproduce, the Josephson junction and the quantum Hall effect, respectively.

An alien, coming into a colony also became, temporarily a subject of the Crown, and acquired rights both within and beyond the colony, and these latter rights could not be affected by the laws of that colony ( Routledge v Low ( 1868 ) LR 3 HL 100 ; 37 LJ Ch 454 ; 18 LT 874 ; 16 WR 1081, HL ; Reid v Maxwell ( 1886 ) 2 TLR 790 ; Falcon v Famous Players Film Co 2 KB 474 ).

The latter has been shown to be extensively paraphyletic, and has now been divided into 11 subfamilies, but the former still stands.

He argues that because a child's suffering is so horrible and cannot easily be ex-plained, it forces people into a crucial test of faith: either we must believe everything or we must deny everything, and who, Paneloux asks, could bear to do the latter?

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Theodosius died in 395, leaving the Empire to be divided between his two sons Arcadius and Honorius, the former taking the eastern and the latter, the western portion of the Empire.

If the latter, Amaryllis would be the correct name for the genus Hippeastrum, and a different name would have to be used for the genus discussed here.

The latter resembles a sort of roll pastry whose main dough ingredient is either butter or fat and which may be simple or stuffed with dulce de leche, milk, jam, crema pastelera, or quince or apple jelly, among other fillings.

The latter can be eaten alone or on top of cakes, alfajores, panqueques ( creppes ), and pastries, or as a topping spread over flan.

Church, Ministry and Sacraments in the New Testament Paternoster Press: 1993, p. 92f </ ref > Moving on to Ignatius of Antioch, Barrett states that here we find a sharp distinction between ' presbyter ' and ' bishop ': the latter now stands out as " an isolated figure " who is to be obeyed and without whom it is not lawful to baptise or hold a love-feast .< Barrett, C. K.

The latter allowed accommodation of a bigger cannon than could be mounted in a turreted tank on the same chassis, and increased the vehicle's internal volume, allowing for increased ammunition stowage and crew comfort.

However, the Church declared that "' Extreme unction ' ... may also and more fittingly be called ' anointing of the sick '" ( emphasis added ), and has itself adopted the latter term, while not outlawing the former.