Sentence examples for noble elders from inspiring English sources

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In some areas noble elders claim these symbols refer to strength of noble family, but not everyone agrees.

He invited the nobles and elders of the region to join with Great Britain 'so that you may be united with your kinsmen in the north, east, south and west in realising the aspirations of your race'.

This is not from some noble sense of "respecting my elders".

But the most unforgettable performance comes from Cecilia Noble as a backbiting, virginal elder.

"It will be a noble experiment," said Adnan Pachachi, the elder statesman of the 25-member body, which was appointed by the American-led occupation authority now controlling Iraq.

Along with Pliny the Elder, the only other noble casualties of the eruption to be known by name were Agrippa (a son of the Jewish princess Drusilla and the procurator Antonius Felix) and his wife.

But to his son, the elder Obama represented a great and noble cause, the cause of anticolonialism.

Others have taken on elder statesman roles, establishing foundations that pursue noble but uncontroversial goals such as eradicating poverty and bringing about world peace.

It is also certain that Greek craftsmen sometimes settled in Etruria, as in the report by Pliny the Elder (1st century ce) about a Corinthian noble named Demaratus, who moved to Tarquinii, bringing along three of his own artists.

He may have been a brother of Ælle, an elder brother of Edwin, an otherwise unknown Deiran noble, or the father of Æthelfrith.