(1) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(2) It's as well to be aware of the beckoning avenues of justification that are drawing in so many of our erstwhile comrades.
(3) That seemed not to worry Unite's Len McCluskey, his erstwhile blustery critic, who sent out paeans of reckless praise: "This is a tour de force … the best speech from a Labour leader I have heard."
(4) Appropriately for a presenter steeped in statistics, the BBC's erstwhile economics editor drew up a cost-benefit analysis weighing up the pros and cons of replacing Jeremy Paxman as Newsnight's lead anchor, to little effect.
(5) The erstwhile envoy caused ructions earlier this week when he declared in an interview with the New York Times that Greece's IMF-dicated fiscal adjustment program was doomed to failure.
(6) It was all very well for erstwhile broadsheet newspaper readers to jeer "Who cares?"
(7) When George Robertson, erstwhile secretary general of Nato, used a New York speech to warn of the "cataclysmic" effects of a yes vote, suggesting it would be an early Christmas present for global terrorists, even close colleagues had to avert their ears.
(8) Blackout will be organising grassroots events, nationwide, for people to come out and show their solidarity in the fight for equal human rights.” Backers include Fruitvale Station actor Michael B Jordan, Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham, hiphop mogul Russell Simmons and erstwhile Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello.
(9) He has also covered an old Scottish folk song, 'Hymn Of The Whale', as well as a fearsome semi-industrial track in the company of the erstwhile drummer from Nine Inch Nails.
(10) But if he can roll out enough insults to Democrats and pal around with more conventional Tea Party heroes such as Steve Lonegan (the erstwhile GOP NJ senate candidate), Christie could convince the conservative base he has their best interests at his large heart.
(11) If its officials have been more visible it is a function of the fact that many, including Koussa and his erstwhile deputy, Khaled Kaim, have more experience in dealing with the west.
(12) For the erstwhile parliamentarian, who has had more time on his hands since losing his Morley and Outwood seat at the general election in May, it is an opportunity to indulge a passion for the club he has harboured since he was a small boy.
(13) Earlier this month, the Kabul-based military command, under marine general Joseph Dunford, sharply rebuked its erstwhile Afghanistan partners for releasing 65 detainees it said had US and Afghan blood on their hands.
(14) Archer's creepy Pecksniffian pals If there's one thing worse than Jeffrey Archer, it is the erstwhile friends of Jeffrey Archer.
(15) Moreover, after what’s sure to be millions of people who were otherwise not very engaged in the topic of internet security go ahead and read Zuckerberg’s post, they may care just a bit more about what’s being done to us all by our erstwhile protectors – not just by the criminals.
(16) Although still stunned by the Fifa president’s resignation, Dyke thinks he can explain it, starting with the allegations of a bribe to erstwhile Fifa official Jack Warner.
(17) For more than two weeks, his erstwhile deputies claimed Mehsud was ill while they arranged his succession.
(18) Harassed western alliance seeks erstwhile head of Taliban administration.
(19) That is our project, and we are getting there.” Manchester United reverted to the three-centre-back system they started out with under Louis van Gaal for their visit to the erstwhile league leaders, partly out of respect for Vardy’s hot streak but also because Marcos Rojo had to pull out injured.
(20) The successful cloning of a non-structural antigen from the genome of what is now designated as the 'hepatitis C virus' (HCV) has transformed an erstwhile diagnosis of exclusion for non-A, non-B hepatitis (NANBH).
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Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) During a discussion about refugees and potential, he recalled how Mo Farah – a black, Muslim onetime asylum seeker – went on to become one of the UK’s greatest ever sports stars.
(2) The news that the state prosecutor wanted Sarkozy to stand trial came on the same day as a major fraud trial opened against Hollande’s onetime senior lieutenant and budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac , who is accused of tax evasion and money-laundering – raising eyebrows on the right about the timing of the announcement.
(3) I also spent time with their onetime drummer John Coghlan, who these days puts in occasional appearances with a tribute band called "State of Quo", and had a long conversation with their ex-bassist Alan Lancaster, who was forced out of the group in the wake of their show-opening appearance at Live Aid.
(4) Last week my friend and onetime colleague, the UK government's former climate adviser John Ashton, berated the BBC for giving Australian climate sceptic Bob Carter undue airtime in its reporting of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
(5) Its former voters in the west of Scotland and other onetime heartlands believe that Labour has abandoned them and their interests, while believing the SNP’s converse claim to have embraced them.
(6) Onetime Kerry ally McCain, at a subsequent and brutal Senate hearing, turned to Kerry’s wife and stated: “ Teresa, I apologize for what I’m about to do to John .” “I don’t think he cares about the critics at this point in his career.
(7) Mike Duggan, a onetime hospital executive, led by a comfortable margin going into the polls over his African American rival, Wayne County sheriff Benny Napoleon.
(8) Preliminary runoff results, released earlier this week against US wishes, suggested a massive turnaround in favour of the onetime World Bank economist Ghani, who lagged significantly behind Abdullah in first-round voting.
(9) "Fuck me," said Mr Graham to his onetime Kent teammate Brian Luckhurst, "they've booked that Elton John again."
(10) US authorities have not given any information about where the books were found in the Abbottabad residence – so quite what lay on Bin Laden’s bedside table, in the room in which he was shot and killed, remains unknown – nor have they divulged any details of any marginal notes the onetime civil engineering student might have made.
(11) Indeed, the White House referred to the Republican senator for Utah, Orrin Hatch’s, onetime statement: “In all honesty, I would like to see one person come to this floor and say one reason why Merrick Garland does not deserve this position.” To observers, Garland’s meticulous work, as well as his personality, fostered compromise.
(12) Their onetime ally-turned-rival, Mara 18, traces back to the 1940s but shared with the newer gang an open-door membership for Central Americans that put them both at odds with the area's more established, exclusively Mexican gangs.
(13) Results suggest that patients with unclear original indications, a onetime indication, or without clinical evidence of CHF or SVT can be successfully withdrawn.
(14) A onetime investment banker and veteran of two other successful web startups, he is already comfortably off.
(15) ), onetime national heritage minister (remember that?)
(16) Against the backdrop of his new slogan, “Jeb Can Fix It”, Bush took veiled jabs at his onetime Florida ally Marco Rubio, the young senator who bested him in a memorable confrontation during last week’s Republican presidential debate.
(17) It is led by Reclaim’s onetime chief social media promoter, the Canberra truck driver, neo-Nazi metal band member and self-proclaimed “Great Aussie Patriot”, Sherman Burgess.
(18) A former Goldman Sachs banker and onetime Conservative donor, Richard Sharp, who sits on the Bank of England’s independent finance policy committee, was also present.
(19) One of the Duggars’ most ardent public defenders has been Republican presidential candidate and onetime Fox News host Mike Huckabee .
(20) A gunman opened fire at a Florida concert venue as singer Christina Grimmie signed autographs for fans after a show, killing the onetime star of The Voice before shooting and killing himself, officials have said.