Sentence examples for erstwhile leading from inspiring English sources

Now the whistleblower in a much bigger scandal, which rocked South Korea and the scientific world in 2005 and 2006, has detailed the difficulties he suffered after exposing the massive fraud perpetrated by the erstwhile leading stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang.

Tovey will lead the season's first classical concert, joined by Bell on violin for a program that includes Ravel and Stravinksy (July 8); Tovey will be at the piano for the "Rhapsody in Blue" portion of an all-Gershwin program that will also feature Hilty, a Broadway star and erstwhile leading lady of the ill-fated TV series "Smash," in a selection of the master's songs (July 10).

Top of the list, everyone says, is Mr Odinga's erstwhile ally and leading Kalenjin, William Ruto, now his deadly enemy.

As is, it's rather like being greeted by a friendly leprechaun: he thanks the "tykish" Rev. Joseph Feeney, and describes his agent as "a Virgil leading his erstwhile pilgrim through the under­brush and malebolges".

In Iran, the world's leading producer, the erstwhile and northeasterly Khorasan Province, which in 2004 was divided in three, grows 95 percent of Iranian saffron: the hinterlands of Birjand, Ghayen, Ferdows in South Khorasan Province, along with areas abutting Gonabad and Torbat-e Heydarieh in Razavi Khorasan Province, are its key cropping areas.

Sam Geduldig, a leading GOP lobbyist and erstwhile aide to former House Speaker John Boehner, picked up on that theme.

Before the erstwhile rivals spoke, Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and leading Sanders surrogate, warmed up the crowd by heralding "the excellent work by the platform teams over the past few weeks" in making sure the campaign's ideas were now reflected in the Democratic agenda.

Two weeks after Gawker published a shirtless Craigslist photo of Congressman Chris Lee and solicitous e-mails he sent, leading him to resign, Ian Murphy, one of his erstwhile constituents, prank-called Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, and now has his eye on Lee's vacant seat.

And that, when counting the individual albums in their massive (and very expensive) box sets of remastered recordings released just this past September as individual albums rather than one "unit," the erstwhile lads from Liverpool have sold more CDs than Eminem, the leading solo act of the decade, or any group, for that matter.

The trouble is that his leading lady, played by the lovely and pneumatic Donna Kerness — an erstwhile high school classmate of Mr. Kuchar's in real life — is quitting.

The Rooms On the site of Waterberry Estate's erstwhile farmhouse, this white single-story property has four en-suite double or twin rooms, leading off the huge living area.