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Example sentences for: elder

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But now, says the Post , the ex-speaker says he did intervene, at the request of a good friend of the elder Bush.
Among the findings: The voters approve of George W.'s equivocations on the cocaine question--largely because they resent the perceived arrogance of the media; they cannot agree what the correct GOP stance on abortion and gun control should be; and they now hate Newt Gingrich and love Bush the Elder, whom they regret abandoning in '92.
That's why I've been puzzled by my reluctance to tackle Hilary and Jackie , which pretends to tell the story of du Pré and her elder sister from their childhood as prodigies (Hilary played the flute) to Jacqueline's excruciating decline and early death (in 1987) from multiple sclerosis.
The precocious theorist anticipated the 1990s; the elder statesman has hearkened back to the 1890s.
They could all get up, do the TelePrompTer fandango, and say "God bless" in one fluid motion (in Bush the elder's case, too fluid).