Sentence examples for several erstwhile from inspiring English sources

Several erstwhile debaters compare the experience to a sporting event.

In fact, several erstwhile members of such groups have served in the Kirchners' cabinets.

Congress has recently offloaded several erstwhile allies, including the SP; re-enlisting them will be costly.

The lawyer begins his own investigation into events, which leads to him re-encountering several erstwhile acquaintances.

To Mr Cameron's surprise, all of the other 26, including several erstwhile allies, declared their wish to sign up (though some later expressed doubts, and several may find it hard to secure approval from national parliaments or in referendums).

The area of Mumbai State increased, after several erstwhile princely states that joined the Indian union were integrated into Mumbai State.

Fighting the election unencumbered will also give it a wider choice of allies after the poll, in which several of its erstwhile allies may fare poorly.

Several relatives of Aslan Maskhadov, erstwhile president of Chechnya turned rebel, have also been seized.

Many other rich countries have done better in the growth stakes, and several have now overtaken the erstwhile champion.

AFTER several false starts Stanley Ho, Macau's erstwhile casino monopolist, at last broke through a logjam of litigation and scepticism this week and took his ailing gambling franchise public, agreeing on July 2nd to sell a 25% stake for some $500m.

This, though Mr Mordechai still sturdily denies it, is a distinct possibility.The overriding aim of the Centre Party's leaders, several of them Mr Netanyahu's erstwhile colleagues, is to prevent the re-election of a prime minister they disapprove of with a quite unusual passion.