Sentence examples for once keen from inspiring English sources

Cocoa traders, once keen backers of Laurent Gbagbo's liberal attitude to international markets, welcomed his capture yesterday and cheered the European Union for lifting trade sanctions.

America's Enron was once keen to join them, and its demise offers a warning of how badly such schemes can go awry.

The characters' relationships are wonderfully vivid, and West's vagueness about their backstory makes "The Lesson" a very immediate portrait of grief that is at once keen and banal.

But back in London around 100 Labour MPs, including some once keen Blairites, were intent on forcing Mr Blair either to leave office or, at the least, to name the date of his going.It is a peculiar situation.

Corporations, once keen to distance themselves from the foul-mouthed street gangster image of the music, are clambering on the bandwagon as they try to woo a younger generation of consumers.

Curated by the Clark's Richard Kendall in collaboration with van Gogh scholars Chris Stolwijk and Sjaar van Heugten, and drawing on an international variety of sources, it serves to remind us that this man, for all his suffering, was above all an artist of the highest caliber, whose eye for nature was at once keen and discerning.

So, given that we're talking about a Citroën from the company once keener to do a discount deal than nearly any other, how grand is grand?

Investors are once again keen to place highly optimistic values on social media companies.

Newspapers were interested in him, and people were once again keen on my documentary.

And even when the war to end all wars was over, the powers once so keen on free trade erected tariff barriers.

In 1859, some years before Central Park's completion, Olmsted visited it once again, keen to obtain from its keepers the "full particulars of its construction, maintenance and management".