Despite their success with the occasional village elder, the Americans have been taking a pounding.
In many ways, message oriented middleware can be considered an elder-statesman of interoperability.
"I was so heartbroken when I saw him I cannot describe it," said his elder brother, Xu Linfu, recalling his first visit there, in 2007.
But Dr Kamal Ali Ahmed, an elder among the Darfuris at Salloum, says that the Sudanese delegation includes a warlord responsible for several massacres in Darfur.
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed.
It's a brooch, a present from my elder brother.
The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question. His son translated for the NASA people.
Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, take a canoe ride with elder Francois Paulette at Blachford lake in Canada.
The first is the rule which says that an elder daughter should take a place in the line of succession behind a younger son.
Mr. Peng was ordered to pay the damages to the elder woman under the judge’s logic that the man wouldn’t have helped her unless he was guilty of injuring her in the first place.
The accused's elder sister bailed her out of jail.
The young men seem to be preferring some request which the elder ones are indisposed to grant.
Now he is primarily a mentor to Mr Goldner, as well as the custodian of the firm's culture and an elder statesman who is leading the effort to tackle two of the toy industry's most pressing problems.
His elder sister had been his guide, counsellor and friend.
On this score, the elder Miliband is a step ahead of his brother.
The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and ragged; they had the air of wild birds.
Among the 9318 CHAP participants, there were 1544 cases of elder self-neglect and 113 cases of elder abuse.
Unlike Gore and most other previous Vice Presidents, including the elder George Bush, Cheney is not treating this job as a stepping-stone.
The family was wiiling to relocate anywhere, and the elder Youngs would change their surname.
It was an elder.
Thus, now that you are a "senior" in life span and an elder in understanding, they do not defer to you in an arbitrary manner and you do not demean them or yourself by requiring such.
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder.
AHMED WALI KARZAI sighs wearily as he recounts the latest bit of bad news. "They just shot another elder from Arghandab."
But in the years since his retirement, Mandela has established himself as the African continent's foremost elder statesman as well.
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