Sentence examples for the former streets from inspiring English sources

But a federal corruption investigation toppled the organization, and in March one of its top leaders, Al Sanchez, the former streets and sanitation commissioner, was convicted in federal court of rigging city hiring for pro-Daley campaign loyalists.

Ms. Brennan was appointed in 2005 after federal authorities raided Mr. Daley's office in an investigation that led to corruption convictions of several mayoral aides, including Robert A. Sorich, the former patronage chief, and Al Sanchez, the former Streets and Sanitation Department commissioner.

By this time, Chumlong, the former street trader, had bought himself two new houses in Bangkok.

As he delivers his trademark blend of whispered phrases swelling to angry yelps, we can see both the former street busker and the present-day star.

"There wouldn't be all that jumping lines, burnout burnout stuff," said Lauren Morales, 24, of Richmond Hill, Queens, the girlfriend of Mr. Moy, the former street racer.

But such a decision would come at the cost of development plans that proponents say would knit together the former street grid of the neighborhood, known as the Hill District.

During the 2011 murder and racketeering trial of Thomas Gioeli, the former street boss of the Colombo crime family, Mr. Gioeli asked a judge for leave to attend his father's wake and funeral in Farmingdale, on Long Island.

Isn't it also possible, she was saying, that the former street kid of partial Japanese descent now getting all the attention and his buddy, the black kid from Chicago, were targets for the establishment clique?

The collaboration between CBS and the Elite XC fight league culminated in the main event, a heavyweight bout featuring the former street brawler, bouncer and bodyguard turned YouTube sensation Kimbo Slice.

Just as Atlanta banished Freaknik, the former street party for throngs of black college students, by rolling up the welcome mat in the late 1990s, Myrtle Beach has a message for the motorcyclists: Go elsewhere.

They stand above the desolate remains of the city, post-atomic bomb, looming over a landscape entirely razed but for a lonely church and an apartment block clinging on to the ghostly imprint of the former street grid.