Sentence examples for in which the erstwhile from inspiring English sources
The mogul, Zhang Mingyu, claims to have a tape recording in which the erstwhile vice mayor, Wang Lijun, threatened him and demanded that Mr. Zhang stop accusing his rival of swindling him.
The exhibition brochure contains a poem by Roger Waters in which the erstwhile leader of Pink Floyd hymns the "asdic ping" of pianos past and "dancing motes that never fade away".
The blurb promises a piece in which the erstwhile King of Pop has to prepare for the afterlife by "collect[ing] evidence by reliving key moments from his life and confronting his past demons" before facing his "Final Judgment™".
Truly, this is the type of story for which the line "you couldn't make it up" was coined (in fact the only way this could be worse is if it were a big-screen version of Ferdinand's TV show, Rio Ferdinand's World Cup Wind-Ups, in which the erstwhile West Ham centre back cunningly "merked" his team-mates).
Followers of MLS will know by now that the league is in the throes of a convulsive revolution in which the erstwhile washouts are suddenly challenging for the playoff spots at the expense of a few top-of-the-table slumpers.
One of the few times a rapper seems to have wholeheartedly supported a Republican is in Baltimore rapper King Los's 2010 track "Next Black President," in which the erstwhile Bad Boy affiliate rapped, "Verbally I'm Ben Carson / Y'all duplicate the wheel, I reinvent awesome".
Its needless restructuring has invited a fresh debate about markets in health provision, as a result of which the erstwhile consensus for liberal reform has disintegrated.
To find places to invest this money it has had to diversify into areas in which this erstwhile value investor lacks the desirable amount of expertise.
Who has ever heard a lie from the lips of a revolutionary?" Eventually Castro reads aloud an undated letter from Che, in which his erstwhile comrade heaps praise on the dictator while renouncing all his official positions and Cuban citizenship: "… on new battlefields I will carry with me the faith that you inculcated in me … to fight against imperialism wherever it may be".
Meanwhile, Hari Kunzru brings radical politics closer to home for My Revolutions (Hamish Hamilton, June), in which an erstwhile activist is haunted by his past.
The show is based on a 1998 documentary series in which Pulp's erstwhile frontman investigated the world of what is usually called outsider art – a contentious term that, since it was coined by writer Roger Cardinal in 1972, has been used to describe everything from art made by people with mental health issues to the work of folk artists.
