Northampton's inability to cope with Bath's positive approach gives the erstwhile Premiership leaders cause for concern.
Congress's decision to stand alone in Bihar, where it looked set to win only two out of 40 seats, was less fruitful though given the collapse of its erstwhile ally there, the Rashtriya Janata Dal party, from 22 seats in 2004 to perhaps three, it may not have been costly.Both decisions were attributed to Rahul Gandhi, Mrs Gandhi's 38-year-old son.
This legislation has little chance of success given the support Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor and erstwhile presidential candidate, has given bear hunting.
That was an intellectually justifiable view then, just as it is intellectually justifiable for erstwhile Iraq war supporters to say -- given the way it's turned out -- that they don't think the effort has been worth it.
May's erstwhile rival for the Tory leadership is another Brexiter being given the difficult task of untangling the UK from the European Union, in her case farming subsidies as the new environment secretary.
It is perhaps unsurprising, given the overtly moralistic and zealous tenor of his early plays, that his later collaboration with the HUAC and betrayal of his erstwhile comrades should have been seen as an act of such moral cowardice.
There, the Beijing government is rebuilding a three-quarter-mile stretch of the mighty wall -- built mainly in the latter half of the Ming Dynasty, which lasted from 1368 to 1643 -- that once formed a protective ring around the imperial capital and gave the city its erstwhile romance.
That would reverse the Bush-era policy of refusing to give this erstwhile "human rights" gang the stamp of legitimacy American participation confers on U.N. conclaves.
President Bush's return to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict Friday was sketchy and late, but it does give the United States and its erstwhile allies something on which they can agree.
Then they gave the world's most famous (erstwhile) terrorist a proper Muslim burial service and respectfully threw his body into the sea.
