Sentence examples for erstwhile tourist from inspiring English sources

The "shadow government" is made up of second-tier figures.The difficulty is that Mr López Obrador's supporters also include radical groups on the fringes of the law of the kind that have helped to bring the southern city of Oaxaca, an erstwhile tourist magnet, to a halt over the past five months as demonstrators struggle to oust an unpopular and thuggish state governor.

Beethoven had his Sixth Symphony, the "Pastoral". The Talking Heads had "(Nothing but) Flowers". Newman looked to Rustic Canyon, with its sycamores, sagebrush and sumac, and to the beaches of Venice and Santa Monica, their erstwhile tourist attractions immortalized in postcards and photographs.

"The age of Communist Party rule is coming to an end," Wang told his audience, a mix of local students and young academics from mainland China — the beneficiaries of a warming of relations across the Taiwan Strait that has increased the flow of goods and money between the two erstwhile enemies and also of tourists, scholars and ideas.

As the gateway to the iconic Great Barrier Reef and fringed by jungle-covered mountains, littered with white-sand beaches and home to a surprisingly cosmopolitan nightlife scene, it is little wonder this erstwhile fishing village has become one of Australia's top tourist destinations.

The cargo passes through increasingly populated areas, erstwhile sleepy cities in Laos that are now teeming with tourists and defying the economic downturn with swinging construction cranes.

All releases on Erstwhile Records.

"The erstwhile Spurs 'striker'?

Forbidden Phrases: "erstwhile" (use "onetime" instead).

Desertion, their erstwhile allies answer.

Her male lead, Tom Cruise, his erstwhile leverage now much reduced after mid-decade idiocies and financial woes, parachuted in at the last moment accompanied by his own script-surgeon – having earlier failed to come to terms with the makers of the almost identical romantic thrillers Salt (his role was repurposed for Angelina Jolie) and The Tourist (losing out to Johnny Depp).

Wendy Miller (our erstwhile editor in chief) examines these questions.