In France they say either "(téléphone) mobile" or "portable", but the latter is ambiguous, because you often cannot tell whether it refers to a telephone, a computer, or another portable device.

The latter half of the week was fine.

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.

During the First Solar System War, the expanse divided itself into the Inner Alliance and the Outer Alliance. Terra, Luna, and Mars were members of the former. The Jovian moons and Saturnian moons and beyond towards the periphery were members of the latter. The war lasted four years. It heavily devastated Terra and culminated in the surrender of the Inner Alliance.

Both the French and the English like to drink, but while the latter prefer beer, the former have a weakness for red wine.

It is true that Aristotle distinguishes the tyrant from the king by the fact that the former governs in his own interest, and the latter only for the good of his subjects; but it would follow from Aristotle's distinction that, from the very beginning of the world, there has not yet been a single king.

Many support the former alternative, but I prefer the latter.

By freeing thought from its object, Descartes made it possible to view the latter in strictly mechanical terms, reopening the way to science, suffocated for more than fifteen centuries under religious nonsense.

Health is above wealth; the latter gives less fortune than the former.

The end of which there were two little sketches of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method.