Sentence examples for erstwhile successful from inspiring English sources

Rihoy and Maguranyanga describe how even in Botswana, Africa's most stable and prosperous nation, the erstwhile successful community trusts for managing natural resources are currently losing in the tussle for power between centralized protectionist interests and decentralized stakeholders favoring local utilization.

There were also successful returns following injury for erstwhile Wales captain Ryan Jones and South African-born wing Hanno Dirksen.

So did his erstwhile drafting assistant Esther McCoy, who after the architect's death in 1953 mounted a successful journalistic campaign to elevate his critical stature.

He couldn't say that today as this erstwhile darling of New York's art and design cognoscenti is now one of the most successful watches of all time.

General Madero, the erstwhile rebel leader, will enter the capital in triumph to-morrow [June 7], and if his friends' arrangements are successful he will shortly occupy the official shoes of the retired President, Senor Diaz.

While some of his contemporaries struggled to redefine themselves post‑Britpop, Albarn teamed up with comic artist Jamie Hewlett to make four successful studio albums with virtual pop group Gorillaz before forming the Good, the Bad and the Queen with Paul Simonon, erstwhile bass player with the Clash, and the great Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen.

His alma mater continues to explore innovation and one of its latest targets is 'Commie concrete', the flaking, discolouring blight on the world's most successful building material which takes its name from the extreme grot still visible in the former Soviet Union and its erstwhile satellites.

"The erstwhile Spurs 'striker'?

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It was cited by Adair Turner, the erstwhile chairman of Britain's erstwhile Financial Services Authority.

Erstwhile frontrunner Jeb Bush has weighed in, too.