Rob, my mentor, had a large selection of venerable hand tools and just one power tool, a chain saw.
After his White House service, Mr. McPherson was recruited to lobbying practice by one of his closest friends, Berl Bernhard, a venerable Democratic Party hand.
A venerable publication by old Asia hands, it had grown stale and shallow for over half a decade.
A persistent notion in American kitchens is that pasta, to be good, must be freshly made by hand, preferably by a venerable grandmother wielding a rolling pin.
One headline — "WITH DOUGH ON HER HANDS, SHE WILL SHOOT A FILM" — alluded to a venerable idiom of Turkish patriarchy: "Those with dough on their hands shouldn't meddle with a man's work".
On the other hand, there is the matter of the V-6 engine, a venerable G.M. design built in China, and the transmission, made in Japan.
One, the wise, steady old hand taking control of the crucial moments of an N.B.A. finals game for a venerable franchise.
On the other hand, a 2005 editorial in Advertising Age stated, "the chain's jettisoning of a venerable name and distancing from the word fried was ill-conceived and damaging.
Yet the exam, which prolongs a venerable imperial tradition of examinations for high office, is also seen as a relatively fair and honest way to hand out scarce college places.
They are a venerable institution.
But not a venerable institution.
