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The erstwhile prodigy had the best chance of her career to win this title, the only Grand Slam singles title she hasn't won.

She was a successor to one of her erstwhile foils, Brendan Gill, and she alternated reviewing with another former target, Penelope Gilliatt.

So what prompted Mr Bush to come out with such a tough response against his erstwhile ally, after six days of dithering?

A fortune teller remembers an old prophecy that the son of her erstwhile lover must be bricked up alive in order for the fortress to stand.

It's easy to sympathise: the erstwhile masters of the universe seem to have forgotten the meaning of both "moral" and "hazard" .

We were delighted to discover a new community garden where erstwhile had been a trash-filled vacant lot.

The war is again becoming a potential deal-breaker for erstwhile Labour voters, as it was at the election of 2005.

In the wake of erstwhile acquisitive operators like the UK's Vodafone, China Mobile is now planning a shopping spree.

Big Pharma is in big trouble, but it may yet find comfort in the arms of that erstwhile foe.

Like some other erstwhile true believers, he became one of most cogent critics of his former faith.

Hilary Clinton's status as an erstwhile Obama rival might undermine the traditional trump card of a secretary of state.

The former first lady and erstwhile presidential candidate will have no trouble attracting attention wherever she goes.

Her stern words for Europe assuaged worries that a former French finance minister would be too cosy with her erstwhile colleagues.

It is neither likely nor desirable that much of the recovery in private demand will come from the US or other erstwhile deficit country.

The fall-out of the credit crunch saw big banks disappearing or forced into panicky mergers with erstwhile rivals.

Short glory, followed by his erstwhile peers lynching me at every opportunity.

It would have to depend on volunteer forces raised, officered, and manned by politicians and erstwhile civilians.

At a time when its erstwhile titans could do with displaying contrition, signs of hubris abound.

Unlike rival and erstwhile suitor Google, Yahoo has been struggling to turn its dominant position on the web into comparable profits.

It is the so-called city of dreams that counts some of the greatest luminaries of music and art among its erstwhile inhabitants.

BANKERS, erstwhile masters of the financial universe, are not used to being spoken down to.

Jaime Rascone is no different than the rest of us in that the erstwhile DJ needs to grab the occasional odd job to make ends meet.

In the summer of 2005, the tension between Waldo and the scientists who had taken over his erstwhile paradise began to mount.

In embracing Einstein, our century took leave of a prior universe and an erstwhile God.

Depending heavily on massive monetary expansion and fiscal deficits in erstwhile high-spending countries will ultimately be unsustainable.

If policymakers leave commodities trading unattended, this erstwhile backwater could one day become a sea of economic troubles.

In recent weeks, their activities have become infrequent and their grip on most of their erstwhile strongholds has loosened.

Panama is indeed now far removed from its erstwhile financial free-for-all. Its banks are highly regulated.

The erstwhile Cinderella Man got knocked out of the ring.

This erstwhile schoolmaster had discovered a way of keeping us quiet in the evenings.

Many of his erstwhile friends and associates have already confessed to wrongdoing.

Its erstwhile friend China, struggling to keep a grip on its restive regions, has expressed "concern" .

Anyone who remembers the lackluster U. S. sales of the erstwhile 318i can see why BMW waited so long to bring back a small car.

Yet, under the pressure of the crisis itself, many erstwhile grasshopper colonies are being forced to become more "ant-like" .

Administrators of Lehman's London arm are considering litigation against its erstwhile parent.

Meanwhile, some erstwhile Labour voters, who have until recently been disillusioned with the government, have been returning to the fold.

But the Russian strategic reach has been limited by emerging realities, including the NATO membership of erstwhile Warsaw Pact states.

Erstwhile Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters's plan to shorten timetables for CAFE tightening.

Continental Europeans want tighter constraints on the erstwhile titans of finance.

Now he's found that his erstwhile allies in Congress and Europe want nothing to do with them.

Port St. Joe is the site of Florida's first Constitution Convention, and a museum remembers it and the erstwhile town of St. Joseph.

The dominant features of today's economy is that erstwhile private borrowers are, to put it bluntly, bust.

The backlash is not only emotionally driven but also smack of a need for political legitimacy of an erstwhile fragile administration.

Elspeth follows Koth with his erstwhile guest, finally seeing the lands Koth calls home.

But almost a decade later Flutter, the likeliest-seeming victor, is gone, taken over by its erstwhile rival.

This began a very successful war against Google's erstwhile partner, Apple.

It also frowns on Mr Obama's efforts to improve ties with another Indian neighbour and erstwhile enemy, China.

In 1969, Frampton left the Herd to form the harder-rocking Humble Pie with erstwhile Small Faces frontman Steve Marriott.

The tales of the erstwhile political power of the English woollen industry are also fun.

In the meantime, Canada's erstwhile geographical advantage is, for now, its millstone.

Distress at the death of so many protesters? Sympathy for the prime minister's friend and erstwhile ally, Muammar Qaddafi?

The first is its military alliance with the US, its erstwhile conqueror, under whose nuclear umbrella Japan has sheltered since 1945.

But Anna's ex-husband, an Englishman, went further than anyone, given the chance to cash in on his erstwhile Russian wife.

The Indian film industry, the largest in the world, is located in Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay), in this region.

Lots of erstwhile Lib Dem voters are "not very rational" , regrets a senior MP.

Even before her release, hundreds of people had gathered near her house and outside the headquarters of the erstwhile NLD.

The same will be said of Mr Blair by erstwhile colleagues when he has gone.

Behura was brought in from Raja's erstwhile Ministry of Environment and Forests.

Now the PAD vows to topple its erstwhile ally.

Not only is it consuming political energy, it is making jingoistic conservatism fashionable, even among some erstwhile reformers.

Thanks to company shutdowns, Palo Alto the erstwhile Mecca of masculinity is now just 49 percent Male

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