Sentence examples for which once counted from inspiring English sources
One exception to this rule is France, which once counted the Central African Republic amongst its dominions.
The union, which once counted 1.5 million members, now has fewer than 400,000, the lowest membership since 1940.
The golf club — which once counted President Gerald R. Ford and Attorney General John Mitchell as members — has been criticized for decades for its exclusion of women.
But it hardly amounts to the neglect that some accuse the Poles of.Feelings of betrayal are stronger in Georgia, which once counted Poland as a stalwart ally.
Among them were major shops like Doyle Dane Bernbach and Ogilvy & Mather, the latter of which once counted Berkshire Hathaway among its shareholders.
Spain, which once counted Julio Iglesias as perhaps its best known international figure, is now a world power in tennis, cycling, and even basketball — a fact the prime minister noted with undisguised delight.
A year into his Vine venture, Nash has nixed his college plans and dropped lacrosse, which he once counted on as his ticket to a school like Princeton or Penn.
Turkey, which Mr. Assad had once counted as a friend, has also castigated him, given sanctuary to an insurgent group and threatened further action.
Experienced members of athenaeums often have strategies for locating good books from centuries past, with titles and authors long forgotten, according to Jean Marie Procious, director of the Salem Athenaeum, which was founded in 1810 and once counted Nathaniel Hawthorne as a member.
The best and the brightest, among whom Ms. Arroyo was once counted, soon get swallowed by a system in which survival politics is seldom good governance.
"I know because I once counted them".
