White Grit is a former mining community of bungalows and a corrugated iron church in an area once branded "the land of desolation".

His mother once branded him a liar, an impostor and a parasite for sticking her into one of his novels.

Hull, once branded as a selfish coach-killer who might never help a team to a championship, also won a Cup in Dallas, in 1999.

The man once branded a Stalinist control freak has looked increasingly like an out-of-control freak.

Mr Bush said North Korea and Iran, part of what he once branded an "axis of evil," remained dangerous.

He once branded George Meany a coward.

The scaffold where I once branded and decapitated a woman was there, a dark river bank, and the roof of a certain tomb.

Colin Campbell, then the Rangers' coach, once branded the Devils' forwards as "interchangeable parts."

The Democrats, once branded as big spenders, have become as hawkish about deficit reduction as the most conservative Republicans.

He rarely makes reference to Mr. Clinton's affair, but he has condemned the president's behavior on a few occasions, once branding it "inexcusable."