Sentence examples for gathering of elders from inspiring English sources

The Afghan flag is now flying over the town, and a shura, or gathering of elders, involving more than 60 tribal leaders and government representatives took place yesterday.

Captain DeMure told the doctor and a gathering of elders that the Afghan government had a plan to provide services to Nawa, but would need the villagers' help.

By that, he meant a loya jirga — a traditional gathering of elders and other powerful people — that the Afghan government is organizing in the coming weeks to approve the entire deal, known as a bilateral security agreement.

Surely these countries should, in this time of excruciating global economic crisis, see the point of communing in a sort of grand financial loya jirga a fraternal gathering of "elders" to resolve the community's problems.

In a recent survey of 1,927 adults in five provinces including Kabul, 78% of respondents said they thought elections were the best way for a leader in Afghanistan to assume power, compared with 6% who favored naming a religious leader to create an "Islamic emirate," and 8% who supported a loya jirga, a traditional gathering of elders, as a consensus process.

Sowing the seeds There is laughter, shuffling feet, and chatter about the compound outside the huge warehouse where the gathering of elders continues.

While many current leaders have chosen to not to attend Baroness Thatcher's funeral, the service represents what is likely to be the last gathering of elder statesmen of the period before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

A spokesman for the Special Forces command in Afghanistan declined to discuss the report in detail, but said candidates for the local police were nominated by local gatherings of elders and "must be thoroughly vetted to ensure only quality individuals are selected".

A third killed 43 people at a gathering of tribal elders at the town of Darra Adam Khel.

It is supposed to convene a larger gathering of tribal elders and other notables called a loya jirga, which in turn is to choose a transitional government.

Then, after two years, there will be a loya jirga (a gathering of tribal elders, local power-brokers and elected officials) to approve constitutional changes that include the creation of the post of prime minister.