Sentence examples for erstwhile head of from inspiring English sources

So did Nikos Kartakoullis, the erstwhile head of the Cyprus Sports Organisation, the island's supreme sports authority.

There's the "toes up" club in the back: Richard S. Fuld, the erstwhile head of Lehman Brothers; Robert B. Willumstad, formerly of the American International Group; Daniel H. Mudd, late of Fannie Mae; Richard F. Syron, formerly of Freddie Mac; and Alan D. Schwartz, the onetime chief of Bear Stearns.

A proxy independence vote was held one year ago and the erstwhile head of the regional government, Artur Mas, has been indicted for holding the ballot.

He said the Zuma case had been irredeemably spoiled by "collusion" between two of his erstwhile colleagues: Bulelani Ngcuka, a former head of the prosecuting agency, and Leonard McCarthy, the onetime chief of an elite unit of investigators known as the Scorpions.

The idea that we might have the former head of MI5 and erstwhile Man Booker judge Dame Stella Rimington to thank for a literary prize celebrating boldness of form is as pleasingly quirky as the Folio award's first shortlist.

And as one adage suggests, there is nothing louder than the sound of a halo crashing down from the head of an erstwhile angel.

The erstwhile Labour MP and BBC head of corporate planning under another DG, John Birt, Purnell will play a key role in determining the future shape and scale of the corporation and in the all-important negotiations with the government in the runup to charter renewal at the beginning of 2017.

4) Also involved in the scandal — and working to illegally steer money to the Carey campaign — was high-minded Citizen Action, another organization of pinkish hue, whose executive directors wife turns out to be none other than Karen Nussbaum, famous feminist, erstwhile Sixties firebrand and current head of the AFL-CIO Working Womens Department.

However, when I contacted her, Lisa told me that she felt "deeply disappointed that an erstwhile ally [The Sun's Head of Showbiz Dan Wootton] lent his name to such a shameful piece that he knows better about".

In O'Hagan's account, collaborators such as journalists and the head of Assange's erstwhile publisher Canongate come in for much fiercer criticism from Assange than more powerful and malevolent opponents in corporations and government.

Recall that the Clintons' erstwhile friend Yeltsin made Putin first head of the FSB intelligence and security service and then prime minister of Russia to play the lead role in restoring Russian strength.