He assuredly bumped off a formidable array of erstwhile friends and possible rivals. |
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Consequently, the music and grooves are the same jazzy funk that this erstwhile folksinger has been exploring over her past few albums. |
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Or is it more a question of a prime minister losing the trust of his people, including some his erstwhile friends and allies? |
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Many of the president's erstwhile critics seem willing to give him a chance. |
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But there's nothing like a common enemy to get erstwhile rivals to work together. |
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They have joined erstwhile political masters and mafia men to mulct the state. |
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A warmly lyrical idiom gave place to a gritty astringency that must have been very disturbing to erstwhile admirers. |
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This was the only way to let new trust grow across a deep trench between the erstwhile perpetrators and their victims. |
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Oil money has corrupted the media and a considerable segment of erstwhile critical intellectuals. |
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Like Sally, Atlantic City's Grace is a shrill, unstable aging beauty, grasping at her fading identity as an erstwhile big-timer's widow. |
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Our erstwhile ska hardliners are now essentially a four-piece, with saxist Lorraine front and centre handling vocal duty. |
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As this correspondent observed last week, the forests have re-grown and the erstwhile bald hills are now covered in luxurious foliage and flora. |
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This incents gaming at the company level, contribute invalid data for erstwhile competitors while using your real graph for search. |
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Thus it came to pass that one of the islands of the Archipelago of Bermuda, erstwhile the haunt of buccaneers, became the lair of another gang. |
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The future, as foreseen by Douglas Hurd, erstwhile Foreign Secretary to Margaret Thatcher, looks intriguing. |
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Surprisingly, Paul Kaye as the erstwhile burglar Mike, give a relaxed and convincing portrayal of a working class intellectual. |
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The wine was so good that one of my erstwhile diners had a drop too much and was sick at the table. |
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Daniel Okrent, the NYT's ombudsman through its crisis months departs this week, loosing a Parthian shot or two at his erstwhile employer. |
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The fuzzy-haired keyboard player switches to bass, the erstwhile bassist to second guitar, and it all goes horribly pear-shaped. |
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Even laptops and palmtops are taking over the erstwhile super computers' importance. |
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Sorry to have to clean you out, old boy, but others less fortunate than yourself have a much greater need for your erstwhile plenty. |
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Garang and Reik Machar, his erstwhile Nuer rival, for years locked horns in a furious struggle for supremacy. |
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It is entirely natural for Indians to take pride in the successes of their erstwhile compatriots abroad. |
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The erstwhile British colonial rulers used the fort to try the freedom fighters after convicting them of treason. |
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It's clear that Joyce used the first part to score off his erstwhile friends-turned-enemies. |
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Earlier this year Lipman was signed up to promote her erstwhile employer's arch-rival, the Carphone Warehouse. |
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Her erstwhile colleagues in Cabinet report that Ms Short was never timid about ventilating her opinions. |
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Liberal and Reform synagogues have abandoned their erstwhile preference for confirmation over Bar and Batmitzvah. |
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The rainbow coalition of minorities had now turned against their erstwhile patron. |
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Louis, cold fish to her dying breath, allowed himself only private tears and no public expression of regret for his companion and erstwhile lover. |
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As far as Bangalore is concerned, the erstwhile City Improvement Trust Board was the forerunner in developing housing layouts as early as in the nineteen fifties. |
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To be fair to the script writers, they have made Todd behave in a way which entitled his erstwhile friends and neighbours to complain about his conduct. |
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Getting a brand that was erstwhile pushed by James Bond himself? |
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The stately buildings, erstwhile the abode of the honoured and wealthy of the city, are now tenanted by humble toilers, or turned into places of business. |
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Notoriously single-minded, the erstwhile enfant terrible of the Belgian art world is a Renaissance man, despite his penchant for drenching everything in body fluids. |
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Logan offered the position of Survey paleontologist to the erstwhile lawyer. |
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For the moment, most offenders, and their erstwhile protectors, are being more careful. |
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But she quickly fell out with her erstwhile ally, who dismissed her government after a few months. |
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But, on Monday, it was reported that the erstwhile Democrat was returning to his political roots. |
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Rather it is the strength of the erstwhile 90-pound weakling, who builds it up himself through hard work and the exercise of will. |
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In this anxious world, an erstwhile axeman now looks like the nearest thing to a rescuer on offer. |
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Its minimalism taps into a more optimistic idea of architecture, as does its erstwhile politics. |
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Obviously this is mendaciously disingenuous coming from the erstwhile Prince of Darkness who has torpedoed many a career with anonymous briefings to journalists. |
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Tsotie's habitual warm smile is notably absent as she talks about the erstwhile occupant of room number six. |
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Sheepdrove is the creation of erstwhile publishers Peter and Juliet Kindersley and their team, headed by Charles Maclean. |
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Once adult, it becomes the undisputed master of the river and seeks to devour its erstwhile enemies one by one. |
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That is what has been destabilizing an erstwhile balanced economy that was built up in this country since the second world war. |
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Mr. Speaker, I should mention at the outset that I will be splitting my time with the erstwhile member for Portage-Lisgar. |
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Even the erstwhile employment guarantor, a good education, is rarely any help nowadays. |
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It was noted that, since the end of the Cold War, democratic practices have spread to a large number of erstwhile authoritarian states. |
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Again, the two erstwhile allies fell out, settling their differences, in civil war. |
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With the demise of the cold war, almost two decades ago, erstwhile foes have become partners, and even allies. |
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When many returned home, they were abandoned and cursed by relatives and erstwhile friends. |
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There are various Dutch titled preludes rather similar to the more erstwhile Bach style but at the same time retaining that unique Sweelinck touch. |
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He was to be Iran's moderate president, reflecting public sentiment to avoid the bombast of the erstwhile Ahmadinejad. |
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It was arguably the most boneheaded thing erstwhile presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said. |
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With scarlet lips and chemical red hair, the erstwhile agent is still making headlines in the West. |
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He cites the career of an erstwhile friend the film director M. Night Shyamalan. |
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The audio, which hijacks your cardiac tempo as only ominous electronica amped up in the dark can do, mixes recordings of two timepieces of erstwhile global authority. |
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Among the many incidents recalled in his long and winding career is a night back in 1962 when he MC'd the first-ever British performance by the erstwhile Robert Zimmerman. |
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Latham had a reputation for erratic behaviour, not consulting his erstwhile colleagues and for some of the most unparliamentary language ever entered into Hansard. |
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The Grinch is a yellowish green hermit who lives on the top of Mount Crumpet with his erstwhile companion Max, a dog whose loyalty knows no bounds. |
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Furthermore, Benigni's satire more accurately targets Johnny's overweening machismo and gynephobia than it does his erstwhile criminal dealings. |
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His erstwhile fiancee Joan Clarke, one of Bletchley's rare female cryptanalysts, worked with him. |
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If you're for one of my erstwhile opponents, that's O.K. Just don't work too hard. |
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By 1244, however, Gruffudd was dead, and Dafydd seems to have benefited from the backing of many of his brother's erstwhile supporters. |
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By 1649, the struggle had left the Royalists there in disarray and their erstwhile leader, the Marquess of Montrose, had gone into exile. |
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Less than a year after Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair, the idea of installing a third front man has become thinkable for some of his erstwhile supporters. |
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The erstwhile mikvahs and schoolhouses have been lovingly refurbished, but they are empty monuments. |
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Half of those erstwhile hopefuls now know that they have no hope. |
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He dismembered myths, caught erstwhile authorities with their factual trousers down, gave a glimpse of a community history lived not apart from trees but with them. |
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Yes, the railways of the mid-19th century often stalked the existing canals, and the courses of these erstwhile rivals crisscross dramatically all the way up to the Black Country. |
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There's a small kitchen set in the erstwhile altar, but the real showstopper is the retractable roof, which makes sleeping under the twinkling stars a possibility. |
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The realities of this interdependence did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm with which Bermudian privateers turned on their erstwhile countrymen. |
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The evidence for such an erstwhile joining of these continents was patent to field geologists working in the southern hemisphere. |
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Later, Astrakhan was involved in conflicts against its erstwhile Tatar allies. |
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In 1708, for example, the East India Company merged with an erstwhile competitor to restore its monopoly over the Indian trade. |
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Upon the list of the Dominion of Pakistan in 1947 the laws of the erstwhile British Raj remained in force. |
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A summer reading list for professional accountants might serve the same purpose as those erstwhile lists: to keep us thinking and learning even while we relax. |
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The speakers of Strand's newest poems — the aging partygoer, a connoisseur drinking a fine Beaune, an erstwhile polar explorer — are nearly all this internally various. |
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The tone was set the minute Nick Clegg took his first potshot at his erstwhile boss: everyone against David Cameron, big guns scrapping among themselves, smaller ones largely ignored. |
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Some erstwhile Bermuda cruisers have courted controversy by misplaying their move. |
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It had good reason to feel satisfaction at the spectacle Iraq humbled on the battlefield by superior arms in the hands of others, including some of its erstwhile allies against Iran. |
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And the erstwhile foreign pundits will soon realise that it is not 'game over for Mugabe' but a new game altogether, not only for Zimbabwe and its neighbours, but for Africa. |
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A gadarene rush to convert from paper to specie in early 1720, led by Law's erstwhile cronies among the court aristocracy, underlined the point. |
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And lately it is proving far more devastating and ferocious than its erstwhile begetter. |
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Srinivasan recused himself and the erstwhile IPL chairman Chirayu Amin was made a member. |
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It is a lesson of history that, when the battle is won, the victors are ennobled and enjoy more prestige and enhanced legitimacy if they show mercy to their erstwhile enemies. |
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As the Libertines prepare to drag themselves into another sorry reunion at Hyde Park, their erstwhile mucker Johnny Borrell is undergoing, on the stage of a 200-capacity theatre, a very different sort of rebirth. |
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Article XXI of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement provided for the establishment of a Transitional Government to replace the erstwhile Government of Liberia. |
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The courts in the latter State subsequently proceeded to hold a substantive custody hearing, as a result of which the erstwhile abductor was accorded custody and allowed to relocate with the child. |
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Science has reached unknown heights, we are undergoing a communication revolution and erstwhile impenetrable problems can now be solved, but the world is no safer for it. |
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While some royal palaces have been maintained as museums or hotels over the last decades, some are still homes for the members of the erstwhile royal families. |
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The culinary experience at Peppermill has an essence of the regal life and feast of the erstwhile emperors, maharajas, Nizams and navabs of India. |
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Finally, defeat of erstwhile Soviet Union in Afghanistan was celebrated as end to bipolarism as well as wiping out of Communist domination from the world. |
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Alaric became the friend and ally of his erstwhile opponent, Stilicho. |
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The erstwhile Malabar district, of which the present Kozhikode district formed a part, holds a high rank among the districts of Madras Presidency in secondary education. |
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The outcome of such an event is that erstwhile speakers of the substrate will use some version of the superstrate, at least in more formal contexts. |
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