His erstwhile supporters, including his own party, have dumped him.
Emancipation and black soldier enlistment were, far and away, the gravest complaints that conservative Unionists in the border states expressed; they felt betrayed by their erstwhile allies, having supported a Union based on the continuation of slavery.
Iran - which so recently fought a long, brutal war against Iraq - would surely support its erstwhile enemy, and might even come into the conflict on the Iraqi side.
During his time in exile, some of Mr Sharif's erstwhile party loyalists announced support for Gen Musharraf.
After Douglas's floor manager, William Richardson, suggested that nominating Breckinridge for vice president would help Buchanan secure the support of erstwhile Douglas backers in the general election, Louisiana's J. L. Lewis nominated him.
The League is determined to block her and may win the support of its erstwhile allies in Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PdL) movement, one of three parties in Mr Letta's coalition.One result has been to expose the hollowness of the League's claim that it is not against all immigrants, only illegal ones.
Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup during the crisis, is backing a peer-to-peer lending group called Orchard; John Mack, erstwhile CEO of Morgan Stanley, is supporting a rival model, Lending Club.
Their lives mirror those in suburban New Jersey in that they feel overwhelmed by the pressure of raising children and a lack of support from husbands and erstwhile friends.
In supporting the Lakers, Mr. Gore may also have been trying to repay a favor to Shaquille O'Neal, the Laker star, who endorsed him after Michael Jordan threw his support to Bill Bradley, Mr. Gore's erstwhile rival.
Cameron offered May his full support, as did her erstwhile rival, Leadsom.
