Sentence examples for erstwhile ally of from inspiring English sources
America, a staunch erstwhile ally of the unpopular president, is also reluctant to stick up for him.
Because Iran can be an erstwhile ally of the United States in its fight against the Islamic State and in stabilising Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
The most devastating comment comes from the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, a great Anglophile and erstwhile ally of David Cameron.
The miners had been loyal to the Ceausescu regime for many years, but it was Iliescu — a former senior party figure and erstwhile ally of Ceausescu's — who succeeded him after his execution in 1989, and when there was pro-democracy ferment in the capital afterward, it was Iliescu who brought in the miners to break heads and quell things.
Mr Malema, who strongly denies allegations of corruption, accuses his erstwhile ally of failing to relieve poverty.
However, as with the Gezi protests, Erdoğan dismissed the ensuing legal investigation as a "coup attempt," this time blaming it on Fethullah Gülen, the leader of the Gülen religious movement and an erstwhile ally of Erdoğan's.
Other erstwhile allies of Zarqawi have expressed similar misgivings about his approach.
When, in 462, the Spartans were vainly endeavouring to reduce the mountain stronghold of Mt. Ithome in Messenia, where a large force of rebellious helots (state-owned serfs) had taken refuge, they asked all their erstwhile allies of the Persian wars, including the Athenians, to help.
Interestingly, Mr. Baraka also feels that people have been distracted from substantive issues because of the actions of his erstwhile ally, Mayor Sharpe James.
Erstwhile allies Brienne of Tarth, Tormund Giantsbane, Davos Seaworth, and The Hound (also newly resuscitated) saw their outstanding former alliances more or less suspended last season, leaving them plot-handy.
UK arms sold to Libya (worth £105m from 2005 to 2009) can no longer be accounted for as the arms caches of our erstwhile ally Muammar Gaddafi are now enabling Islamist insurgencies across the Maghreb, one of the poorest areas on Earth, to terrorise millions.
