Sentence examples for senior elder from inspiring English sources

As its senior elder he dominated the formulation of its doctrines, worship, and practices.

A prominent anti-Taliban senior elder was also gunned down in northern Marja, prompting most of the 200 people in his district to flee.

"It's very hard to keep this 300-year-old 300-year-old 300-year-oldre average working people," said Joseph Schurch, the church's senior elder and vice president.

They are elder elders, and the New York North mission, which includes Westchester County, is the host to a dozen such senior elder couples.

Shane Mortimer – the most senior elder of the Ngambri people, and the great-great-great-great-grandson of OnYong, whose skull became a sugar bowl – says the keeping place should be built where the Aboriginal Embassy stands today.

Witness one of the game's wisest, funniest and senior elder statesmen, Roy Masters, commencing an analysis of the match-fixing allegations on ABCs Melbourne-based TV program, Offsiders, after they emerged in June.

There are two senior elders in Deh-e Kuchay, but neither is willing to exercise leadership, Lieutenant Walsh said.

There are about 4,200 such senior elders at work around the world each year, according to Scott Trotter, a spokesman for the church on the East Coast.

"Senior elders were very concerned with the wildfires coming through and killing all the little plants and animals and little marsupials, and many species of plants and animals are very special to that community," he said.

The senior elders would meet and discuss the migration of livestock or the protection of the community from raids or from the stresses induced by droughts.

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