Sentence examples for respected old from inspiring English sources

Greenaway accepts his Bafta with the peeved, formal air of a respected old college professor being given his carriage clock.

"Portland may be over-hyped in some ways," said Dave Machado, who after 16 years in Portland is a respected old guard chef.

As early as the mid-1980s, Milosevic was keenly aware of the value of propaganda, and he quickly took control of Belgrade television and of the respected old Belgrade newspaper, Politika.

It's not giving away too much to say that the pivot of the action is Edgar's discovery, on Ducasse's televisions, that a respected old man in the village is a serial sexual predator who attacks teen-age girls.

The fortuitously happy effect of this differentiation, especially as recession drives those most in the thrall of short-term financial goals to deeper and deeper downsizing, is that our handful of well-staffed, respected "old news" organizations are forced to a new realization of the worth of their franchises.

One reason was that two respected old bulls, one on each side of the Senate aisle -- Alaska's Ted Stevens and Hawaii's Daniel Inouye -- distrusted the executive power grab, and would not be panicked by the pitch of those zealots who held that the war on terror required the subversion of constitutional oversight.

He was Father of the House - its respected Oldest Inhabitant - through the 1983 parliament.

The "News" reported that White & Case, the staid, well-respected old law firm which the former United States Attorney had joined in mid-February, had had as a client the government of Panama, whose leader, Noriega, is under federal indictment on drug charges.

I don't doubt Paxman will find a market for his stage show, which is unlikely, let's face it, to be standup, and fairly likely to be in the undemanding vein of comedy guru John Lloyd's Fringe 2013 show – ie a well-respected old-stager wheels out anecdotes and backstage gossip, and we all bathe in the glory of a glittering career.

It's rather clever to stick such well-respected older actors in a pretty silly action flick.

I once met a cookbook publisher who said that she spent her childhood pretending to be a fussy eater, to emulate a much-respected older sister.