Sentence examples for elder there from inspiring English sources

Mansfield became an elder there.

"Nobody holds back the Misuratans," said Jumaa Ageela, an elder there.

According to Pliny the Elder, there were no bakers in Rome until the middle of the 2nd century bce.

Mansfield says that, although he had helped found Community Church, Fischer told him that he was unfit to be an elder there, arguing that if he couldn't run his own house properly he couldn't run God's house.

The word of caution sounded by a village elder – "There is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits" – has never sounded more apposite; and it is notable that Deputy Governor Danforth's justification for his kangaroo court ("No man who is pure of heart may need a lawyer here") echoes the NSA dictum that, as long as you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

When you are a true elder, there is a comfort that you bring to those around you.

The shooting inflamed residents and turned his neighborhood against the occupation, elders there say.

A decade ago, they urged elders there to admit women to the traditionally male-only health and family planning durbars.

Clan elders there persuaded the kidnappers to free Mr. Barnard, said Anna Ford, a Save the Children spokeswoman.

Muslim community elders there say the mosque's ­security-camera system was stolen about three weeks before the Christchurch attacks.

For example, although he said he had controlled a district in Helmand Province, elders there said they had never heard of him.