Sentence examples for which the erstwhile from inspiring English sources
Its needless restructuring has invited a fresh debate about markets in health provision, as a result of which the erstwhile consensus for liberal reform has disintegrated.
The mogul, Zhang Mingyu, claims to have a tape recording in which the erstwhile vice mayor, Wang Lijun, threatened him and demanded that Mr. Zhang stop accusing his rival of swindling him.
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".
The blurb promises a piece in which the erstwhile King of Pop has to prepare for the afterlife by "collect[ing] evidence by reliving key moments from his life and confronting his past demons" before facing his "Final Judgment™".
Truly, this is the type of story for which the line "you couldn't make it up" was coined (in fact the only way this could be worse is if it were a big-screen version of Ferdinand's TV show, Rio Ferdinand's World Cup Wind-Ups, in which the erstwhile West Ham centre back cunningly "merked" his team-mates).
Followers of MLS will know by now that the league is in the throes of a convulsive revolution in which the erstwhile washouts are suddenly challenging for the playoff spots at the expense of a few top-of-the-table slumpers.
(Don't mention "Swept Away," which starred the erstwhile Mrs. Ritchie).
With the country's appetite for onscreen baking showing no sign of satiation, her new series, Kirstie's Handmade Britain – the first episode of which sees the erstwhile property guru attempt to make scones, eclairs and fruit cake – Allsopp is leaping into a rather packed patisserie.
The other prominent set is the bar to which this erstwhile Fred has returned in 1957 to recall his bittersweet escapades in 1943 and the subsequent World War II years when asthma kept him in Manhattan and hoping to launch a writing career.
To find places to invest this money it has had to diversify into areas in which this erstwhile value investor lacks the desirable amount of expertise.
They rejected stereotypical portrayals that showed vestiges of the American vaudeville "stage Jew" with Old Country accents, flailing hands or singsong intonations; they quickly eliminated anyone who seemed to have arrived at the audition hall directly from Second Avenue, which was largely the erstwhile home of the Yiddish theater district, or from the borscht belt.
