Sentence examples for a former one from inspiring English sources

I give myself carte blanche being a former "one of them" to diss on them as much as I want.

Researchers largely "learn on the job", says a former one.

He is a senior lawyer, not a former one.

He is a current member, not a former one.

He is the current governor of New Mexico, not a former one.

Mr. Wilkie is a current political reporter for The Boston Globe, not a former one.

That statement echoed one that Mr. Romney, a former one-term governor of Massachusetts, used when he announced his candidacy in New Hampshire in June 2011, and that he repeated for weeks afterward until he was confronted by an NBC-TV producer and fact-checking organizations.

One who has already said he might run is a former one-term congressman, Michael Flanagan, who is most famous for beating that redoubtable old Democratic baron, Dan Rostenkowski, after he was indicted for corruption in 1994.

"I think it was inspiring and gave voice to a lot of people," said Mike Fitzpatrick, a former one-term Republican congressman from the Philadelphia suburbs who announced on Saturday that he would try to reclaim his old seat from Representative Patrick J. Murphy, a Democrat.

Asked the other day to reflect on his experience in learning the ways of Washington, Alan Grayson, a former one-term Florida congressman who was defeated in 2010 but prevailed after running again this year, said: "Oh, I don't think I fit into that category.

The G.O.P. will have to dip down to a former one-term lieutenant governor of Maryland, Michael Steele, to put a black public face on its national committee.