Sentence examples for elder ran from inspiring English sources

George, the elder, ran the mechanical engineering side, and John (later Sir John) ran the civil engineering side, including the completion of London Bridge and the Plymouth breakwater.

LAST week in Chelsea, Mich., as people wilted and vegetables flourished in the intense heat, Anne Elder ran through some of her favorite summer ingredients: pearly garlic "rounds" that flower at the top of the plant in hot weather, the spreading leaves of the broccoli plant, yellow dandelion flowers that she dips whole into batter and deep fries.

Yoshida the elder ran the company in ways that resembled a religious cult, with him at its head, his son says.

Of the six presidents to have approval ratings in that range a year ahead of the election — Nixon, Clinton, Bush the younger, Truman in 1947 and Reagan in 1983 and 1987 (with Bush the elder running as his proxy in the latter case) — all six won.

Puma sits on his community's council of elders, runs Cusi Huayna -- a cultural organization that teaches tradition to Quechua youth.

"It is written in the book of NorQuest: After MyEnd Elders run the Buffaloed Buffalo-Soldier-haired Obama over cliff, then Chief BackTonO'Cash will emerge from Goldmen's Sacks, beginning a New Fiscal Age of Even More Glorious Exclusive Entitlement," said Paul Krugman.

Both lost, but the elder George ran such a strong race that he retained his political credibility, while young George emerged simply as, well, a loser.

The little girls burst out laughing, and it was a full fifteen seconds before the elder sister ran back for another pole.

At St . Augustines High School, the elder Mr. Carey ran track and was on the intramural basketball team, in addition to being class president, newspaper editor and a debate team member.

The elder Mr. Jackson ran for president in 1984 and 1988 (when his son introduced him at the Democratic National Convention), but the son was often mentioned by the political establishment as a leader who might ultimately outdo his father, setting up an unspoken contest: which Jackson would go further?

Inside the six-foot-high levees stood the family farmhouse where father and son were raised, the office from which the elder Mr. Hart ran the farm, the plot where his childhood pony is buried, the workshop that Todd wants to turn into a recording studio, the garden tended by his stepmother, the grass lawn that Todd kept mowed during the flood.