Sentence examples for the erstwhile leader from inspiring English sources

The erstwhile leader in the polls, Howard Dean, finished a miserable third with less than half of Mr Kerry's total.

Both events were able to field top women speakers, including the deputy leader of the SNP, the shadow Scottish secretary, and the erstwhile leader of the Scottish Tories.

Then along came Trump, the erstwhile leader of the birther movement – insisting that Obama was not a legitimate president, because he had really been born in Kenya.

The results provided a rare bit of good news for beleaguered Nokia, the erstwhile leader of the mobile phone business, now fighting for survival in an industry dominated by Apple, Samsung and makers of handsets running Google's Android operating system.

Today, to the delight of some and no doubt the derision of others, François Hollande – the erstwhile leader of the Parti Socialiste and current frontrunner in the battle for the French presidency – is coming to London.

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".

It was also an un-Bournemouth goal that saw the erstwhile leaders fall behind as early as the sixth minute.

The erstwhile leaders of the "Leave" campaign have engaged in a peculiar bout of internecine self-destruction, and some of their followers have started to glimpse the bleak future that both the country and they personally face.

The World Team Championship finished in Beersheva in Israel on Thursday in victory for the favourites Russia by the narrowest possible margin after a dramatic 3.5-0.5 3.5-0.5 lastin against the eroundile leaders China.

Lawmakers will decide whether to launch a parliamentary investigation against two former prime ministers – the socialist George Papandreou and the former vice president of the European Central Bank Lucas Papademos – following a proposal by the nationalist Independent Greeks party to probe the erstwhile leaders for breach of duty in pursuing suspected tax evaders named on the notorious list.

It was McNally who coined the band's name, and he recruited Pender (erstwhile leader of the Wreckers and the Confederates) and Tony Jackson (obituary, August 20 2003), from the Martinis.