"I had previously enjoyed cordial relations with James and Rebekah," he says.
The cooking group, which had previously enjoyed making the salamundy salad, was now preparing kickshaws -- cookies with jelly inside.
The loser in the scramble, besides China, was Britain, which had previously enjoyed a near monopoly in the China trade.
Paying the ultimate price is increasingly becoming a possibility for Afghanistan's women's rights activists, who had previously enjoyed the protection of the foreign troops in the country.
But Poulsen believes the FBI and secret service have had victories, smashing several hacker forums and destroying the sense of invulnerability their members had previously enjoyed.
The imposition of Western sanctions, which followed Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea, hobbled the Russian economy, which had previously enjoyed a decade of strong growth.
The politicians didn't just listen, they queued up to talk directly to a group of people who had previously enjoyed little collective political voice – mothers.
Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, who preceded him as President, eventually curtailed the government-sanctioned impunity that the shabiha had previously enjoyed.
