elders

One of the rites of passage for every young political reporter is to listen to the elders tell stories about campaigns past.

It was one of the first organizations in the building, along with the Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE).

And in talking with elders associated with the Taliban everywhere possible, one place stood out: Kunar.

As if to prove their continuing vitality, the other elders choose to write about younger or even much younger characters.

The elders recommended that Driscoll step down as preaching pastor and only return when the elders believed he was ready.

Imitation of the ways of their elders doubtless plays a part here, but it is aided by an instinct for adornment.

I never now see our young people, or their elders either, affected by an author as we were then by the power of Dickens.

He was in the habit of visiting or writing to them; and here the elders sent to him, if they happened to have a trustworthy envoy.

They would prefer Hans Nilsen, but, at the same time, would be grateful for any one whom the elders might send to them.

Still they were pleased to hear him, the elders nodding their heads approvingly, and smiling at one another.