Sentence examples for erstwhile parent from inspiring English sources

Those who hoped that Delphi could somehow squeeze a deathbed concession out of its unions (mainly the United Auto Workers)—or indeed its main customer and erstwhile parent, General Motors GMM)—were disappointed but cannot have been surprised.

LOS ANGELES -- It seems fair to ask why Sidney J. Sheinberg, 76 years old and long retired as president of MCA Inc., the erstwhile parent of Universal Pictures, spent much of last May tromping through the swamps of Louisiana with the crew of a little monster movie called "Creature".

In terms of the studio's importance to the deal, all you really need to know is that Blizzard, based in Irvine, Calif., is getting its name on the door of the new company — Activision Blizzard — while the erstwhile parent, Vivendi, is not.

Fiercely political Alice discovers that her erstwhile parents are her grandparents, who thereupon shrivel: "Deceit had kept them young whereas the truth had accelerated them practically into decrepitude".

In the end, Sunday Night's report helped to rehabilitate the image of Reclaim Australia, earning the erstwhile "concerned parents" praise from patriots and an extra 20,000 likes on Facebook.

This power is already in evidence in the group's teenaged sojourn at Spirit in the Woods, a place founded on the values of the 1960s and now filled with children exhausted by their erstwhile-hippy parents' successes.

Garnham, 52, an erstwhile campaigner for lone parents, early years services and welfare rights, is hardly quaking in her boots.

Writer describes his friend and erstwhile lover L., who has broken from her parents when they refuse to give up the coaxial cable.

We were sorry for her because not only had her mother given her away, but her adoptive parents were the legendary Dirty Den and the feckless Angie, erstwhile landlord and lady of the Queen Vic, who were always too busy being dirty and feckless, in our opinion, to take proper care of their little girl.

Admittedly, those were huge mistakes leading to national headlines, failed students, crushed dreams, outraged parents, lost jobs, class-action lawsuits, out-of-court settlements, and the erstwhile name changes of guilty companies, but, again, those boo-boos do seem to happen only occasionally.

Many parents realize there's a bit of marketing and branding here in the erstwhile home of "Mad Men's" dream couple of Don and Betty Draper.