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    erstwhile


    1. They did indeed begin explorations, with Harry serving as erstwhile guide


    2. Once upon a time that would have been a feasible option even for him, the semi-professional gambler (or erstwhile semi-pro gambler to his wife); the number of hands dealt these days made it impossible to all, he reckoned, but the most unusually gifted memory man


    3. Zeradas, her alien assistant, provided her with the virus disguised in the form of a subroutine the erstwhile computer would – hopefully – not be able to distinguish from a background monitor program


    4. Their response – carefully crafted to comply with erstwhile doctrine and in so doing exploit a loophole – involved an elaborate plan to avoid direct contact with the species of that era (further detail restricted to file Mission Freedom)


    5. He didn't, though, imagine there being any assistance from his erstwhile team of techies: they were either imprisoned in TIAR of killed for knowing too much and being a potential threat to the new regime


    6. I needed some lunch, then I thought I’d go see what the erstwhile Lieutenant Howard had discovered and what he


    7. A condition common to many Great Nations in decline is complacency; a weakening of (national) resolve that eventually causes many (erstwhile) Great Nations to gradually abandon their moral bearing


    8. A nation‘s indifference to military preparedness and its uncritical assumptions regarding the inestimable intentions of hostile nations is consistent with the erstwhile requirements of a purposeful nation that has lost the Will to Lead by example


    9. Therefore, the would-be reformer will seek to promote public ―awareness‖ of some (erstwhile) non-issue by manufacturing a victim by planting seeds of ignorance and fear into the hearts and minds of the people in a manner that gradually arouses suspicion, resentment, anger and hate


    10. Therefore, erstwhile high school students are presently residing on college campuses that were once reserved for scholastically minded individuals who formerly claimed a higher academic standing

    11. consolation, however, in an era were (erstwhile) great nations have been reduced to historical footnotes


    12. Perhaps its many (erstwhile) faces would provide a more accurate description of what has (now) given way to a troubling sense of ―sameness‖ that seems to typify a number of towns and cities across the nation


    13. It was over so quickly, or was it? Grunting and groaning noises suddenly came from the direction of the erstwhile leader


    14. If ever Krishnan was appreciated for carrying on the family tradition of being the seducer (though he had declined to call himself that as his conquests never equaled his grandfather’s, the flute maestro at the erstwhile Kingdom of Gauripur), he knew nothing of it


    15. I felt bad trying to command the erstwhile leader but then when leaders tend to go crazy, somebody else has to hold the reins


    16. Growling like a couple of alley cats, clawing and scratching until Alger got Begum on her knees, back a deep curve, erstwhile private parts offered to the zooming cameras


    17. She would accept every invitation then back out with charming apologies at the last minute, leaving her erstwhile hosts admiring her fortitude in the face of such disappointment


    18. The longer they took to work out their options, the more likely it was that that they would realise that their quarrel lay not with Hubris, but with Reave, their erstwhile employer, and that an unsanctioned murder without payment was a poor business model


    19. “Yes, I’m officially on garden leave as of ten o’clock this morning, and I have your erstwhile boss to thank for it


    20. He was encouraged to get the plans of a vessel and resume his erstwhile

    21. "Are you mad, to ask?" laughed Conan, coming swiftly toward his erstwhile chief


    22. If he was murdered then the two erstwhile investigators had no alibi and would be suspect


    23. His slitted eyes were aglow with morbid anticipation as his erstwhile tormentor pushed his hand under his nose and with the admonition, ―Squeeze,‖ pressed against the two fingers fracturing the ampule with a tiny tinkling sound that would have been a thunderclap to Gypsy Jack Pappadoupoulis—had he known


    24. requirements of the regulations as promulgated by the erstwhile provincial


    25. After a day or so, the Government became distinctly uneasy about the mood of the country, and of some of their erstwhile friendly neighbours


    26. Bill Clayton told Tony Weaver about the circumstances surrounding the death of Father Sean Doyle, the erstwhile priest of the Falls Road, but also one of Bill’s top men, who had actually supplied most of the bank account details, gleaned through his other role as the IRA’s Treasurer


    27. It was only time before modernism became the mantra of upward mobility, and the Western education, the preferred route to social savvy in the Indian society, but as Islam is conceptually antagonistic to both, at last, it lost its erstwhile sway over even amongst the disaffected harijans, nay dalits, who had tended to opt for the Standard of the Christ as a benign brand equity


    28. Just to cite one example, as a case point, the royal palaces in Hyderabad Deccan and the chest of the Nizam’s family jewels stand in stark contrast to the social backwardness and the abject poverty even of his Musalman subjects in the erstwhile State of His Highness


    29. Thus, these erstwhile Buddhists devoid of the guidance of the monks for their Nirvana could have been too eager to seek the paradise Muhammad had promised for the Musalmans


    30. The same applies to the Bangladeshi Musalmans, likewise afflicted with the Decommissioned Adult syndrome of their erstwhile Pakistani masters

    31. But meanwhile, would the Musalman bigots and the Hindu sophists, who aid and abet them in feeding their folks with a religious diet, apply their minds to bridge the Hindu-Muslim economic divide? By and large, the Indian Musalmans are economically worse off than even the Hindu dalits, their erstwhile caste cousins, since they tend to lead a ghetto-like life in isolated pockets in abominable conditions, compared even to the substandard amenities available in the Hindu localities


    32. the whims and wishes of his erstwhile master


    33. direction of his erstwhile ex-boss


    34. With an earsplitting grin, her erstwhile friend and neighbor, Annie Smith, chuckled and launched into the story about the contents of the box


    35. These erstwhile pleasures are replaced with a more practical thought of all the mess and undue physical exertion that sex acts brings in a clean bedroom


    36. Danny mentioned a brief phone call he’d received from the band’s erstwhile manager, Sebastian Freyre-Danet


    37. Darren stared at his erstwhile friend in disbelief


    38. Only one of the security guards remained at his post, steadfastly ignoring his erstwhile partner who was now banging on the gates from the outside, a large chunk of flesh missing from the side of his neck


    39. New rulers of the erstwhile colonies not only


    40. On attaining majority, the erstwhile minor has to confirm the balance in

    41. On attaining majority, the erstwhile minor is required to confirm the balance in


    42. His erstwhile audience merely frowned and walked swiftly


    43. Worse still, their erstwhile cheerful� and lively conversation suddenly became stiff and strained


    44. It’s two in the afternoon, the time of day the erstwhile ex-owner of my shop and man who dominates the top of my lengthy shit-list never comes around


    45. A magnificent specimen of manhood he was truly augmented obviously by gifts of a high order, as compared with the other military supernumerary that is (who was just the usual everyday farewell, my gallant captain kind of an individual in the light dragoons, the 18th hussars to be accurate) and inflammable doubtless (the fallen leader, that is, not the other) in his own peculiar way which she of course, woman, quickly perceived as highly likely to carve his way to fame which he almost bid fair to do till the priests and ministers of the gospel as a whole, his erstwhile staunch adherents, and his beloved evicted tenants for whom he had done yeoman service in the rural parts of the country by taking up the cudgels on their behalf in a way that exceeded their most sanguine expectations, very effectually cooked his matrimonial goose, thereby heaping coals of fire on his head much in the same way as the fabled ass's kick


    46. He, B, enjoyed the distinction of being close to Erin's uncrowned king in the flesh when the thing occurred on the historic fracas when the fallen leader's, who notoriously stuck to his guns to the last drop even when clothed in the mantle of adultery, (leader's) trusty henchmen to the number of ten or a dozen or possibly even more than that penetrated into the printing works of the Insuppressible or no it was United Ireland (a by no means by the by appropriate appellative) and broke up the typecases with hammers or something like that all on account of some scurrilous effusions from the facile pens of the O'Brienite scribes at the usual mudslinging occupation reflecting on the erstwhile tribune's private morals


    47. If he should fall into the hands of his erstwhile Inquisition colleagues, they’d make certain he truly was dead, but not until they’d wrung every single thing he’d ever known about the “Fist of God”—and organization called Helm Cleaver—from his screaming body


    48. A woman with fingerless gloves approached, and Mercer had foisted a handful of pocket-change on her before he recognized her as his erstwhile colleague, the one with the giant handwriting


    49. [3] The Persian might easily have admitted that Erik's fate also interested himself, for he was well aware that, if the government of Teheran had learned that Erik was still alive, it would have been all up with the modest pension of the erstwhile daroga


    50. Furthermore it has supplied a superficial justification for the creation of excessive prices for these common stocks; and finally it contributed powerfully to that confusion between investment motives and speculative motives which during 1927–1929 served to debauch so large a proportion of the country’s erstwhile careful investors








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