Sentence examples for elder scholar from inspiring English sources

This elder scholar is no old fool.

And some would be set aside for "elders," older scholars who would live on campus from time to time to "share their wisdom and knowledge," Mrs. Ross said.

Despite its setting, Mr. Harris says, the book is a modern novel, absorbing Roman characters, notably Pliny the Elder -- scholar-commander of the imperial fleet -- into a tale of imperial hubris that, after the invasion of Iraq, he depicts as particularly relevant to present-day America.

PAGE A6 CHANGES IN CHINA UNLIKELY As the elite of China's Communist Party gather in Beijing for the opening of their annual plenum, there is little suggestion that the climate for political change is anything but wintry, despite a public attack on the government's censorship earlier this week by a score of the party's elder and scholars.

On Monday, a score of Communist Party elders and scholars issued a scalding public attack on the government's censorship regime.

The meeting, or shura, was a rare display of unity among 700 tribal elders, Islamic scholars, fractious politicians and former guerrilla commanders.

The Taliban have been ruthless in their attempts to hang on to their most important and symbolic military stronghold, assassinating over 500 tribal elders, religious scholars, and elected representatives in the process.

The meeting, called a shura, convened with 700 tribal elders, Islamic scholars, political leaders and former guerrilla commanders and was the largest of its kind among Afghans outside Afghanistan in years.

For his performance as the elder poet and scholar A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's "Invention of Love," Richard Easton won the Tony for best performance by a leading actor in a play.

Europe gave up eating them centuries ago, but Pliny the elder, the Roman scholar, wrote that aristocrats "loved to eat beetle larvae reared on flour and wine" while Aristotle described the best time to harvest cicadas: "The larva on attaining full size becomes a nymph; then it tastes best, before the husk is broken.

Or, as Pliny the Elder, a Roman scholar, said: "A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance".