Sentence examples for venerable group from inspiring English sources

One of Ms. Bono's aides described that venerable group as "the blue-hairs".

And sometimes — rarely — a venerable group decides to leave the scene while it is still playing well and its reputation is fully intact.

The Brotherhood, the venerable group that virtually invented the Islamist movement eight decades ago, is at its core a middle-class missionary institution, led not by religious scholars but by doctors, lawyers and professionals.

March 5 2011 The venerable group examines late Beethoven at the 92nd Street Y with the pianist Robert Levin, who performs the Sonata in A Major, Op. 101, before joining Clive Greensmith in the Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1.

At 8 p.m., Times Center, 242 West 41st Street, Manhattan, (212) 556-4300, gemsny.org; $10 to $40. (Kozinn) KALICHSTEIN-LAREDO-ROBINSON TRIO (Sunday) This venerable group, one of the few longstanding ensembles to retain all its original members, will conclude its 30th-anniversary celebrations with a marathon Beethoven bash.

The good stuff had simply become the preface: Landis won the 2006 Tour as a 30-year-old, scruffy-haired rogue, who was raised a strict Mennonite but is now a Metallica fan, a charming redneck among a venerable group of sleek, mostly European race ponies.

There has been some protest activity, by venerable groups like the War Resisters League and Internet-era upstarts like MoveOn.org.

The Wild Magnolias are one of New Orleans's venerable groups of Mardi Gras Indians, a carnival tradition that is the equivalent of Brazil's samba schools.

Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley, the violinists; Michael Tree, the violist; and David Soyer, the cellist, banded together in 1964, and and continued to perform together as musicians came and went from the Juilliard String Quartet and other venerable groups.

This will now afford a much-needed home to such venerable groups as the London Chamber Music Society, which traces its Sunday concerts back to Victorian times, and celebrates tonight with a new work by Thea Musgrave.

But as the number of World War II veterans dwindles, so does membership in these two venerable groups.