Yeah, what DID ever happen to the once-proud Minnesota DFL?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Poll Finds Al Franken Falling Further Behind In Minnesota] Reference

My once-proud brain chased its tail and caught nothing but air.    From Wordnik.com.  [DearlyDevotedDexter]

A silly marketing campaign sparks a security scare in a once-proud town.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Pretty weak, Boston] Reference

This modern-day run on the bank has left a husk of a once-proud money fund.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking Buck] Reference

"Our hope is to restore the roar of this once-proud franchise," Goodell said.    From Wordnik.com.  [NFL Allows Lions to Play With 12 Men] Reference

That move salvaged, at least for now, part of the once-proud securities firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Street Scenes: The Players] Reference

  War, accidents, surgery and gravity have made sport of our once-proud bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locker-Room Heroes] Reference

(ACIR), a once-proud, federally funded institution that has fallen on hard times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Partnership In Intergovernmental Service Delivery] Reference

"Farewell, General," she said quietly, crossing to embrace the once-proud warrior.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kinslayer Wars]

The standoff is frustrating for citizens, who watch their once-proud city crumble.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Kirkuk, Ethnic Strife Takes Toll] Reference

They erode our faith in this once-proud bedrock of our democracy, America's free press.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palin To Iowa Republicans: It's Time To Unite] Reference

No entity in this once-proud nation is more corrupt than its shallow, hubris-infested media.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Founder Standing] Reference

Not so the footsoldiers who remained in Honey, the remnants of the once-proud Army of Franklin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advance and Retreat]

But as we found out, people are still proud and want to revitalize their once-proud neighborhoods.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2006] Reference

Congress should throw them a US25 billion lifeline to save the once-proud titans of American industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The once-proud US military uses USAID funds to bribe the Taliban to allow safe passage for our convoys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prosecuting Government and Corporate Pirates] Reference

But Air One has pitched itself as the local savior that would keep the once-proud carrier in Italian hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alitalia Delays Decision] Reference

The 1958 Packard Hawk was a last-gasp effort to save the once-proud automotive manufacturer from extinction.    From Wordnik.com.  [1958 Packard Hawk:] Reference

Hundreds of once-proud aluminum birds are parked here with engines sealed, tires wrapped and windows covered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Planes in the Desert May Boost Fares] Reference

For the sake of a once-proud nation, the Kimberley Process members upheld their existing ban on Marange diamonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Leo: Kimberley Process Keeps the Door Open for Zimbabwean Democracy] Reference

The Boston Globe, the Baltimore Sun, Newsday and many others have shut their once-proud foreign bureaus entirely.    From Wordnik.com.  [ProPublica: Investigative Reporting in the Web Era] Reference

Meanwhile, once-proud New York City basketball programs like St. John's, Fordham and Manhattan have also floundered.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYU Holds Out on Sports] Reference

They mocked him and the once-proud lord took it all, making his home in a mountain cave where he lived like a hermit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

It's past time for Detroit to get serious about regaining America's once-proud role as a leader in automotive engineering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurie David: Adding Teeth to a Detroit Bailout] Reference

The once-proud Queen of England fell victim to her many jealous enemies and had a blind date with the swordsman from Calais.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Maxwell: Hillary Boleyn: Has Anything Changed in Half a Millennium?] Reference

She will restore our once-proud leadership in global efforts to alleviate poverty, promote health and sustain the environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation: Ellen Chesler for Hillary Clinton: A progressive who can win -- and govern.] Reference

He can and should flail the current crisis for the costly mistakes and for destabilizing the once-proud position of the American dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stanley Kutler: Obama's Opportunity] Reference

"On Aug. 20, please preserve this great and once-proud organization and restore its credibility by voting to remove Dr. Benjamin Chavis ....".    From Wordnik.com.  [Trial By Fire At The Naacp] Reference

Two things stand out as the dust of our once-proud nation, redolent like everything else Cheney touches of "nine-eleven," falls once again around our ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil, or What? Life After Capitalism] Reference

This glorious city has not been built for the purpose of leaving the area, no matter how badly beaten and raggedy-assed the once-proud American Eagle may become.    From Wordnik.com.  [TOO LITTLE TOO LATE] Reference