Sentence examples for erstwhile competitors from inspiring English sources

Bigger companies have managed to gain market share, and a lot of their erstwhile competitors have gone away.

Its telecoms unit, which owns underseas fibre-optic cable, is in a mess but at least it is still going, unlike most of its erstwhile competitors.

Former federal regulators, lobbyists and executives of Enron's erstwhile competitors argue that the Enron scandal was a result not of deregulation, but of lax oversight, hubris and ambition.

But with 44 percent of the vote, she fell short of the majority needed to secure a second term without a runoff, opening the door to some awkward negotiations with her erstwhile competitors.

But given that some of Safeway's erstwhile competitors failed, in part because they offered substandard service, "it also hurts to some degree in that customers may confuse what we're doing with what the others did," he said.

Yes, the competition was vastly more nimble and less sclerotic – and newcomers didn't have to protect a Windows-Office cash cow – but it's also easy to imagine how an unencumbered Microsoft might have strangled Google and others the way it killed erstwhile competitors in the 1990s.

As an erstwhile competitor herself, Ms Benítez is now in a privileged position to put things right.

Dynegy's steady progress has now made it strong and solvent enough to contemplate a multibillion-dollar takeover of its erstwhile competitor.

Now Rojo has lured a hugely valuable scalp from the Royal to join her: her erstwhile competitor, the Romanian ballerina Alina Cojocaru.

George O'Connor, an analyst at Panmure Gordon, said the news was in "sharp contrast" to second quarter results from its "erstwhile" competitor Fast Search & Transfer, the Norwegian firm that yesterday reported second quarter results below expectations.

In 1866, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin's colleague and erstwhile competitor, encouraged him to reconsider his metaphoric language.