It was venerable.

Thank you, venerable matron.

This is the most venerable of the happinesses, traditionally.

Speaking of his beloved South Africa, the venerable archbishop said

What makes this place interesting is its sponsor venerable old IBM.

Go in peace to the world of shades, venerable father of Yotar

( The Queen said ) O nobles , a venerable letter has been delivered to me .

( The Queen said ) O nobles , a venerable letter has been delivered to me .

A man with the venerable look of a priest took my bag and my blanket.

Shall we accept the definition given by the venerable Tomaseo in his monumental dictionary of the Italian language

Insurance, on the other hand, is a reliable and venerable institution, its modern form dating back to the seventeenth century.

That so many of the city's most venerable taxpayers have survived yet another commercial building boom, is cause for celebration.

This view reflects a venerable tradition that goes back to Adam Smith and continues a proud existence in today s economics textbooks.

Until that happens, they promise politicians that we will speak out in any public place where you show your venerable faces.

But Americans will remember this homegrown plot as a highly symbolic moment an attack on a venerable international sporting event on Patriots Day.

Never mind the subprime crisis of August 2007 or, closer to home, the European monetary crisis of August 1992 the August holiday is a venerable tradition.

I can think of no better way to restore confidence in these two venerable institutions than to finally open up the way their presidents are selected.

But there is another answer, which takes the form of the old and venerable tradition of Confucianism, which is being revived by government officials, critical intellectuals, and ordinary citizens.

In carving out a global role for the renminbi, Chinese policymakers are proceeding deliberately. In the words of the venerable Chinese proverb, they are feeling for the stones while crossing the river.

On the other hand, most of us are woefully inadequate to practice the venerable and vital art of baloney detection (or, more politely, critical thinking), which is so necessary in modern society.

Secondary sources External links Bede's World the museum of early medieval Northumbria at Jarrow The Venerable Bede from In Our Time (BBC Radio 4) Ecclesiastical History of the English People , Books 1 5, L.C.

That portfolio includes both customer pleasing tabloids with a troubled history of pandering, spying, and bribing, and the venerable journalism of the Wall Street Journal s news pages a contradiction that splitting the parent has not resolved.

They said O exalted one ! Behold ! he has a father , aged and venerable , ( who will grieve for him ) so take one of us in his place for we see that thou art ( gracious ) in doing good .

They said O exalted one ! Behold ! he has a father , aged and venerable , ( who will grieve for him ) so take one of us in his place for we see that thou art ( gracious ) in doing good .

They lay all the blame for Iraq s problems at the door of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, a tough minded Shia politician who has led the venerable Dawa Party to the head of a broad Shia coalition that helped him win a second term in December 2010.

I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered immediately as the storm pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation, sufficiently attested that this fine old man was the chaplain.

In seven weeks' time, on January 24, hundreds from the four corners of planet Earth will gather at the venerable Cebu Provincial Capitol in Cebu City, Philippines, to spend two days together exploring the connections between the open Internet, freedom of expression and online civic movements around the world.

They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground and to one another it is either winged or it is legged.

CAMBRIDGE Next month marks the one year anniversary of the collapse of the venerable American investment bank, Lehman Brothers. The fall of Lehman marked the onset of a global recession and financial crisis the likes of which the world has not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930 s.

Our sixth Citizen Media Summit takes us for the first time to South East Asia, where we'll convene two days of public conversations and workshops with bloggers, activists and technologists about the state of citizen media, the Internet and online participation within the venerable walls of the Cebu Provincial Capitol in Cebu City.

This would not be done in one day, Mr. Chairman, but we would like to have your reaction, as much as we would, of course, welcome your views on the integration of the Library within the Department of Public Information and on a more open and proactive role for this venerable structure.