Sentence examples similar to the erstwhile speaker of from inspiring English sources

The mayor telephoned the Shia speaker of parliament to make an exaggerated pledge of fealty.In Marjayoun, the erstwhile capital of the zone, shopkeepers pulled their shutters down as boisterous gunmen toppled a statue of Saad Haddad, the founder of the SLA.

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.

Weyant: Remember David Stockman, the erstwhile head of the Office of Management and Budget?

It was cited by Adair Turner, the erstwhile chairman of Britain's erstwhile Financial Services Authority.

Starring Jai Rodriguez, the erstwhile Angel of "Rent".

Our domestic problems threaten to destroy the erstwhile haven of democratic serenity.

So did Nikos Kartakoullis, the erstwhile head of the Cyprus Sports Organisation, the island's supreme sports authority.

The erstwhile palace of Sultan Ahmed el-Mansour, the impressive remnants hint at its former splendour.

As the erstwhile icon of climate change, polar bears have been a very … political subject.

Pimm's Cups materialized, the ship's public announcement speakers broadcast our guide Gillian's soft-voiced commentary: The little island we were passing "at present" had been the erstwhile home "of an English recluse who would come and spend his summers and he would eat rabbits".

Now Reddy wants a similar contract with MSPL, the erstwhile king of trade in that area.