Sentence examples for be a chum from inspiring English sources

All three of his sons play big roles in the regime, and one, the head of the CPP's youth wing, is now running for a seat in Parliament.To redress the economic imbalance, the CNRP proposes a populist programme borrowed, in parts, from a former Thai prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra (who happens to be a chum of Mr Hun Sen).

Martin Bouygues, boss of Bouygues Group and known to be a chum of the previous president, Nicolas Sarkozy, popped into the Elysée to nobble his successor last week just after Mr Hollande returned from Nigeria and just before he flew off to Central Africa, according to an uncontradicted report in the Journal de Dimanche, a weekly.

Long Live Knut - you are a Chum!

He was a chum of Mr Gusinsky's, and once the strongest challenger to the Kremlin's grip on power and money in Russia.

Gadafy is a chum and Saddam Hussein, with whom he enjoyed numerous meetings before the US-led invasion of Iraq, struck him as "a normal person, a politician who cheered for his republic and wanted to do good things for people".

Fred (that's not his real name, but roofers need their privacy) is a chum of mine and, apart from being a proper artisan and craftsman of roofs, he is also an artist.

As we glugged the Chateau Whitehall, the talk turned to an extraordinary rant against the lobby by an MP many of us thought was a chum: Tom Watson, the recently resigned Cabinet Office minister who shares his name with an American golf legend and is known affectionately among lobby correspondents as "Tommy Two Dinners".

He was a chum.

He was just "Pappy," a husband who was a chum with whom she went hunting, playing and living without ostentation in their ranch cottage near Encino.

Luckily, the constable of the evening was a chum and schoolmate of Holmes's, and the Unfortunate Traipser, being of a lesser class than our esteemed personages, did not require to him the level of investigation and prosecution that would be afforded to a peer.

It doesn't have to be a lifelong chum like depression or anxiety.