The word "onetime" is a valid and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that happened or will happen one time. For example, "This year, we're offering a one-time discount on all of our products."
Then again, as a onetime Republican who opposed the Iraq war and champions the metric system, Chafee doesn't seem scared of an uphill battle.
The onetime favourite, Jan Fischer, a former prime minister, finished third with 16.4%, bleeding support during the campaign's final weeks.
Mr Haass cited the danger North Korea poses as a cyber-vandal, an unauthorised nuclear power, a possessor of a large conventional military force and a onetime sponsor of terrorism.
Specifically, Mr Okruashvili said that he had refused a presidential order to kill Badri Patarkatsishvili, a onetime associate of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and reputedly Georgia's richest man.
Under pressure, it is easy to take the optimistic view.There is a revealing passage in the autobiography of Jack Welch, onetime head of GE, about the Kidder Peabody scandal (when a rogue trader at the group's investment banking subsidiary lost the group $350m) which shows how subjective accounts can be.
Over the past few years, this onetime refuge has become a source of flight.
One day in 2007 Mr Berezovsky (pictured left), the exiled Russian oligarch, pounced on his onetime business partner and now sworn rival, Roman Abramovich, in a Hermès boutique in London.
NATE SILVER, the onetime baseball stats guru whose work on political polling revolutionised the polling business, has turned his attention to airfares.
Mr Gudkov will give no more speeches from the floor of the Duma, and he now attends opposition demonstrations without his onetime parliamentary immunity.
One who may try to fit the bill is Teodoro Petkoff, a onetime leftist guerrilla leader who was planning minister in the last pre-Chávez government and who is now a newspaper editor.
A landowner and onetime government official, Purishkevich also served as a deputy to the second through fourth state Dumas (parliaments), in which he made anti-Semitic speeches.
