Sentence examples for elder thought from inspiring English sources

Bush the Elder thought he had a deal with the rest of the world that he would break if he extended the war; American troops would have found themselves engaged in dangerous and difficult fighting in cities; and "we would have become an occupying force in a hostile land with no exit strategy".

Rubenstein is the family's conflict-averse consigliere of spin, who for some years has pasteurized the elder Steinbrenner's thoughts and words in statements that are e-mailed to reporters, some of whom recall the Boss at his most Pattonesque.

In other words, he grew up and is now something of an elder statesman – "a scary thought.

However, he said that that he had telephoned a church elder to "ask his thoughts" on the matter.

They certainly swept a vast audience off its feet on Saturday night; and the scene at the end was matter for serious thought to any "elder statesman".

Elder said she had no second thoughts about forgoing a poll before last week's vote.

Most Italians, Mr. Ambrosini said, still "feel ashamed" at the thought of putting their elders into a nursing home.

Pliny the Elder is generally given credit for the thought.

His early plays discussed sex with unprecedented candor: a woman reminisces about losing her virginity, a man makes hopeless excuses for his impotence, young unmarried couples conduct affairs without a thought for the mores of their elders.

According to Gregory K. Brown, a suicide specialist at the University of Pennsylvania, in studies of what preceded elder suicides, "suicide ideation" — the wish to die or thoughts of killing themselves — appears not to have been taken seriously.

The elder Teller pressed the 10-year-old Astro for his thoughts on physics, history and geometry.