Sentence examples for distinguished elder from inspiring English sources

Not only may China have funnelled cash to the White House and to congressmen; it has retained distinguished elder statesmen to represent its interests.

I called Hajji Agha Lalai, a distinguished elder and acting chairman of the Kandahar Provincial Council who is from the Panjwai area.

He is understood to want to play a role in a reconciliation – and to be willing to coax other distinguished elder statesmen to do the same.

Helmut Lachenmann is a distinguished elder statesman of the German avant garde, yet we hear relatively little of him in this country.

A man named Khairullah, an intellectual in his sixties who is a distinguished elder in one of the city's tribal councils, told me that the Taliban had bequeathed Naquib many of their weapons when they left.

When I was a backbencher I crossed the floor myself on one memorable occasion and Philip Ruddock, a very distinguished elder statesman of our party, has crossed the floor on more than one occasion".

The AD8 is an 8-item screen designed to distinguish elders with normal cognition from those with mild cognitive decline; it correlates well with the standard Clinical Dementia Rating scale, a comprehensive neuropsychological test.

So imagine the stage: The distinguished elder-statesman moderator (or AARP-eligible, whichever you prefer), John McCain, who will be 72 by then -- and Barack Obama, who will be 21 years junior to the youngest of the bunch.

Age-responsive DRR facilitates distinguishing living-alone elders from the general population.

The townspeople give all their distinguished guests a vigorous ceremonial welcome greetings from the village elders, songs from the women, drumming by young men.

Edda, body of ancient Icelandic literature contained in two 13th-century books commonly distinguished as the Prose, or Younger, Edda and the Poetic, or Elder, Edda.