Dawn French, Stephen Fry, Alexander Armstrong, Victoria Wood, Mel Smith and David Mitchell achieved as high a profile on their own as their erstwhile other halves: Jennifer Saunders, Hugh Laurie, Ben Miller, Julie Walters, Griff Rhys Jones and Robert Webb.
Enormous effort goes into locating suitable employment, teaching people skills (such as how to keep your job once you have it), and finding them suitable clothing and transport.For staff members used to dishing out benefits, this is almost as big a change as it is for their erstwhile clients.
We might even want to recruit Baathists and induce them to turn against their erstwhile comrades, as in the Kit Carson Scouts.
They watched aghast as television images showed their erstwhile host, the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, attempting to flee the country from a helicopter perched on top of a government building.
Hope got in the way of straight thinking, but so did fantasy: that the Shiites, whom George H.W. Bush told to rise up in 1991, only to stand by and watch them be massacred, would greet their erstwhile betrayers as liberators; that a privileged Sunni minority would enthusiastically adapt to permanent minority status in a Shiite Iraq.
Opposition politicians have chimed in, as have erstwhile fans.
Although a handful of donors were invited to the premiere state dinner Tuesday night — as well as erstwhile allies Craig and Hillary — many donors and passionate supporters are let down by Obama's detachment, puzzled at his failure to make them feel invested when he's certain to come back to tap their well soon enough.
Cameron offered May his full support, as did her erstwhile rival, Leadsom.
The coach had gone with Peguy Luyindula in midfield in an attacking-looking formation, and despite their subsequent vulnerability to the counter, it gave them an attacking outlet throughout the game as the erstwhile goal-shy forward embraced a role as provider.
For all Mr. Hill's celebrity as an erstwhile criminal, he was never entirely rehabilitated.
(The piece outed the feeds' anonymous authors as the erstwhile Observer stars Jim Windolf and Peter Stevenson).
