Sentence examples for erstwhile area from inspiring English sources

"U Profissuri" (the Professor), erstwhile area chief of Palermo's Cosa Nostra, who once sent a blood-soaked lamb's head to a priest as a threat.

He was actually Domenico Rancadore, AKA "U Profissuri" (The Professor), erstwhile area chief of Palermo's Cosa Nostra, who once sent a blood-soaked lamb's head to a priest as a threat.

From Cleveland to Hong Kong, artists, gallery owners, hoteliers and chefs are turning erstwhile areas of urban blight into thriving destinations, reclaiming factories, docklands, even entire industrial zones.

We have not benefited from the massive mad rises in house prices in the erstwhile slum area where we live.

A handful of developers is transforming an erstwhile manufacturing area into a magnet for budget-minded travelers.

In the course of her dive, Juhasz also discovered new exploratory oil activity on the erstwhile BP lease area.

The cargo passes through increasingly populated areas, erstwhile sleepy cities in Laos that are now teeming with tourists and defying the economic downturn with swinging construction cranes.

Heinz is the latest in a long list of prominent American companies that have significantly reduced, or all together eliminated, their presence in the Pittsburgh area, including erstwhile giants like U.S. Steel and Gulf Oil, which were among the nation's 10 largest in 1955, according to David Hounshell, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Now Reddy wants a similar contract with MSPL, the erstwhile king of trade in that area.

To find places to invest this money it has had to diversify into areas in which this erstwhile value investor lacks the desirable amount of expertise.

Then came the electrifying disclosures of fabrication and corruption by their country's erstwhile scientific superstar.