Sentence examples for erstwhile capital from inspiring English sources
The mayor telephoned the Shia speaker of parliament to make an exaggerated pledge of fealty.In Marjayoun, the erstwhile capital of the zone, shopkeepers pulled their shutters down as boisterous gunmen toppled a statue of Saad Haddad, the founder of the SLA.
The princes of these areas still contested the crown of the "grand prince of Kiev and all of Rus," but the title became an empty one; when Andrew Bogolyubsky Andreww I) of Suzdal won Kiev and the title in 1169, he sacked the city and returned to the upper Volga, apparently seeing no advantage in establishing himself in the erstwhile capital.
No, New York City Ballet isn't what it used to be, but the Balanchine Celebration held this fall at the Kennedy Center in Washington served as a galvanizing reminder that Balanchine's legacy is alive and thriving outside the erstwhile capital of the dance world.
In 1199, Tamar's armies led by two Christianised Kurdish generals, Zak'are and Ivane Mkhargrdzeli, dislodged the Shaddadid dynasty from Ani, the erstwhile capital of the Armenian kingdom, and received it from the queen as their fief.
A tale of men on the dole who become male strippers prepared to reveal all (the full Monty), it rises above its specific subject unemployment in Sheffield, Britain's erstwhile steel capital.
This month alone, it seized two vital landmarks: the rebels' erstwhile administrative capital, called Kilinochchi, and the isthmus called Elephant Pass, which connects northern Jaffna Peninsula to the rest of the island.
The one person Ferguson would, in a heartbeat, take home with him from the Spanish capital would be his erstwhile pupil, Ronaldo.
General Madero, the erstwhile rebel leader, will enter the capital in triumph to-morrow [June 7], and if his friends' arrangements are successful he will shortly occupy the official shoes of the retired President, Senor Diaz.
Without foreign competition, Italians will continue to be ripped off, says Davide Serra of Morgan Stanley, an investment bank.Neither BBVA nor ABN Amro intends to remain a minority shareholder in its erstwhile target, so big chunks of capital will leave the country at a time when Italy's recession-hit economy desperately needs liquidity.
There, the Beijing government is rebuilding a three-quarter-mile stretch of the mighty wall -- built mainly in the latter half of the Ming Dynasty, which lasted from 1368 to 1643 -- that once formed a protective ring around the imperial capital and gave the city its erstwhile romance.
As "the Medicare-fraud capital of America," this is the promised land for those erstwhile "mortgage brokers, identity thieves, arms dealers, inside traders and dope smugglers" who have found more lucrative careers in the health care racket.
