Sentence examples for the erstwhile world from inspiring English sources

His friendship with Ali took on a more protective aspect as the erstwhile world champion succumbed to Parkinson's disease in the 1980s.

The high point came when his caddy and girlfriend, the erstwhile world number one tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, decided to take a shot herself.

With the former men's world champion Tyson Gay and the erstwhile 100m world record holder Asafa Powell also testing positive in the past month, along with the Jamaican women's sprinter Sherone Simpson, it was hardly the news athletics wanted.

Lennox Lewis' former trainer Emanuel Steward said last night that he hoped the erstwhile undisputed world heavyweight champion would come out of retirement for a rematch against the Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko.

Before the book was published I had to rewrite it because in the meantime, the computer Deep Blue beat the erstwhile human world champion, Gary Kasparov.

That's important because in the erstwhile "shadowy" world many fly-by-night operations could lay claim to being Al Qaeda in (name your country).

Today, moral grandstanding in international affairs seems antiquated, especially coming from two erstwhile world powers from Europe who are unable to punch their political weight as permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Yet in the 11th round, the erstwhile challenger for the world championship lost to an old rival, Lajos Portisch of Hungary.

But here in Chappaqua, the erstwhile leader of the free world is already a familiar figure -- yet another privileged baby boomer living in a big old house off a winding road, seeming to have plenty of free time in the middle of the workday.

No, New York City Ballet isn't what it used to be, but the Balanchine Celebration held this fall at the Kennedy Center in Washington served as a galvanizing reminder that Balanchine's legacy is alive and thriving outside the erstwhile capital of the dance world.

I was in Chicago; so what better to attend than the world-notorious Trinity United Church of Christ, the erstwhile platform of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Obama's former spiritual home.