Sentence examples for erstwhile comrades from inspiring English sources

He organised a Chechen militia – known as the Kadyrovtsy – who helped Russian troops crush his erstwhile comrades.

Norm lost many erstwhile comrades on the left because of his hostility to terrorism and his support for Israel's existence, and this distressed, but didn't deflect, him.

It's as well to be aware of the beckoning avenues of justification that are drawing in so many of our erstwhile comrades.

Ms. Garvy, herself a former S.D.S. activist, traces the organization's rise and fall through a series of conversations with her erstwhile comrades.

We might even want to recruit Baathists and induce them to turn against their erstwhile comrades, as in the Kit Carson Scouts.

Like many fighters who gave up at the ceremony, he shrouded his face with a scarf and sunglasses, for fear of being identified by his erstwhile comrades.

He called on his erstwhile comrades-in-arms to put themselves about more, to campaign publicly for the UK to honour its military heritage, and to defend the usefulness of international involvement.

The "ambitions" by some foreign fighters in al-Shabaab to join the Islamic State group had led to them to be isolated within the Somali group and even face death at the hands of their erstwhile comrades-in-arms.

Mr Bossi delights in unflattering nicknames for his erstwhile comrade ("Berluskaiser" is one of the few that is not obscene).

She tells JR that he reminds her of Jean-Luc Godard, her erstwhile comrade in the heady, heroic days of the French new wave.

An erstwhile comrade, Florida writer Jack McCarthy, recalls that Hitchens once castigated a former New Statesman editor, Paul Johnson, who also deserted the Left.