Surely he was ( erstwhile ) joyful among his followers .

We used to pray to Him erstwhile He is the just and merciful .

Considerable resources have also been devoted to immediate problems of disarmament and demobilization of erstwhile combatants.

But Ukraine has proved a step too far for some of his erstwhile admirers, like Nigel Farage, the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party.

My erstwhile colleague Kieran Prendergast last briefed the Council in June and announced that I would come this month to give members my first impressions .

Király, Kolakowski, and Khrushchev each in his own way is a symbol of today s new and uniting Europe, a Europe of rapprochement and forgiveness among erstwhile opponents.

Indeed, China should make clear that, much as it would prefer North Korea to survive and prosper, it could afford to allow its erstwhile ally to implode.

It is a difficult balancing act, because Putin can always reclaim the presidency if he believes that his erstwhile protégé wants to dismantle the authoritarian state he has created.

You let it cool to room temperature, and then, as the ammonia re evaporates and combines with the water back on the erstwhile hot side, it creates a powerful cooling effect.

Furthermore, as the Muslim Brotherhood rose in Egypt, Hezbollah s erstwhile ally, Hamas, drifted away from it and its Syrian and Iranian backers, and found a new footing in Egypt and the Gulf.

In fairness to Blair, this is not mere stubbornness, as it seems to the case with Bush and his current and erstwhile minions, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and, of course, Vice President Dick Cheney.

China must warn North Korea that it will not be pressured into providing support even when Chinese national interests have been undermined. Indeed, China should make clear that, much as it would prefer North Korea to survive and prosper, it could afford to allow its erstwhile ally to implode.

The allegations made by the European Union and the United States of America, among others, came as no surprise to those who were familiar with the tactics of the erstwhile colonizers who were more concerned about the privileges of the minority in a land that had been illegally acquired in the first place.