Sentence examples for for erstwhile from inspiring English sources

For erstwhile medallists and heroes fallen from grace, they will spare no more than puzzlement.

The war is again becoming a potential deal-breaker for erstwhile Labour voters, as it was at the election of 2005.

But he is similarly hungry for erstwhile Labour supporters; moreover, Mr Miliband is the very type of Westminster careerist he most reviles.

Thus he won a mandate for erstwhile German New Guinea and Nauru (an atoll in the central Pacific) and effectually opposed a Japanese motion proclaiming racial equality, which he thought might presage an attack on Australia's immigration laws.

The authorities have appointed a special prosecutor to look into alleged crimes committed in the lead-up to the financial crisis and last week saw the high profile arrest of Kaupthing's former chief executive Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson while an international arrest warrant has been issued for erstwhile chairman Sigurdur Einarsson.

It was all very well for erstwhile broadsheet newspaper readers to jeer "Who cares?" The answer was that a lot of people did very visibly care, and also bought into Dempster's philosophy, with which he defended his personally intrusive job - that if wealthy and famous people did nasty things, they should expect to pay for it.

Colonialism scars the colonized for decades, but, for their erstwhile masters, the itch to play once more on the big stage never quite goes away.

This is what you're hearing, for example, from erstwhile respectable Republican economists, who have (surprise!) mostly fallen in line as the crisis looms.

Between Regina's emotional revelations to her mother and the heartbreaking look of devastation on her face when Henry (twice) abandoned her for Emma, you couldn't help but feel for our erstwhile Evil Queen.

Widely criticised in Latin America for ignoring the region, Mr Bush came bearing gifts, especially for his erstwhile allies Mexico and Canada.

As for another erstwhile annoyance, dreamwrecker Stewart Cink has reached the turn in 34, -2 for the tournament.