The invader was a tall man, at once strong and supple.

Of the 120 employees just released, the largest number, 25, came from Smith Barney's once strong municipal securities division.

A large part of the once 16,000 men strong division were taken as POWs.

His political ambitions, once strong, had burnt themselves out and he now watched carefully the progress of others.

This once strong and important ethnic Banat Swabian minority has now become quite small.

This once strong woman, the mistress of all she surveyed, suddenly looked like a tourist lost without her guidebook.

Both shows' ratings, once strong, have declined sharply over the last two seasons.

His hands were big, and his fingers at once strong and gentle.

That is especially true in this port city, where a once strong black community is in the midst of a cultural revival.

Burt was fiftyish, portly, with a body that had been strong once but now held more beer than muscle.