For the moment a coalition of Alawite tribal elders, key army officers and his sister's powerful husband, Gen. Asef Shoukat, seem to have come together to back him.
Thus the Vita accuses Zaoutzes of being responsible for the sacking of the successful general Nikephoros Phokas the Elder from the army, as well as for the outbreak of hostilities with Bulgaria in 893: allegedly, two of his protégés moved the main market for Bulgarian goods from Constantinople to Thessalonica and then proceeded to extract exorbitant fees from the Bulgarian merchants.
This helped persuade the elders to order the army to crush the democracy movement: Wang Zhen: Those goddamn bastards!
In other words, they are out of time.Even the army, her elder brother's main foe, now seems to be taking the prospect of a Yingluck government seriously.
There is even a "reconciliation committee" of elders who talk to both the army and the Free Syrian army – not to Isis or al-Nusra, they all insist – and who drink coffee with the government soldiers.
Just after he graduated from Eton, one of the country's most exclusive high schools, Prince Harry, second son of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, and third in line to the throne after his elder brother, William, applied for army training at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, as prestigious in Britain as West Point is in America.
For several days, commanders from both armies, often using tribal elders as go-betweens, tried to negotiate terms for a Taliban surrender.
They were among the four army generals who escorted the elder Kim's coffin during his state funeral.
Blame Tolkien for resin figurines of bearded elders carrying crystal-headed staffs and for armies of elven horsemen charging across a computer screen at the flick of a joystick.
THE Pakistani Army not long ago gave tribal elders near the Afghan border a choice: either turn over 72 men wanted for sheltering Al Qaeda members, or soldiers would demolish houses in their town.
