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  • "Elders" is the very term for the ministry both of the Old and New Testament, the Jewish and the catholic Gentile Church.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The broadcast featured two Elders from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:

    LDS and Prop 8 Jes Battis 2008

  • The result, as ordained by the panel of Elders, is not what the current incumbent expected.

    REVIEW: The Good Old Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois 2006

  • A group of internationally prominent figures, known as the Elders, is seeking to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and draw attention to the ongoing food shortages in North Korea with a trip to Pyongyang.

    Group of Prominent Elder Statesmen Seeks to Ease Korean Tensions 2011

  • They are members of a group of former heads of state known as The Elders.

    Statesmen's North Korea Visit Yields Direct Talks Offer 2011

  • If you want your questions to be taken seriously then you would do well to start by asking them without the arrant nonsense of paranoid fantasies in which the SyFy Channel has "recoiled in craven fear and trembling" before the intimidatory might of GLAAD's "homosex activists" (aka the Elders of Sodom, Media Division.)

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • The four belong to an independent group called The Elders, started by former South African President Nelson Mandela in 2007 to promote global peace and humanity, and traveled via charter plane with support staff, security and even a videographer.

    Carter Returns from North Korea with Potential Signal Evan Ramstad 2011

  • A group of internationally prominent figures, known as the Elders, is seeking to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and draw attention to the ongoing food shortages in North Korea with a trip to Pyongyang.

    Group of Prominent Elder Statesmen Seeks to Ease Korean Tensions 2011

  • If you want your questions to be taken seriously then you would do well to start by asking them without the arrant nonsense of paranoid fantasies in which the SyFy Channel has "recoiled in craven fear and trembling" before the intimidatory might of GLAAD's "homosex activists" (aka the Elders of Sodom, Media Division.)

    An Open Letter to John C. Wright Hal Duncan 2009

  • They are members of a group of former heads of state known as The Elders.

    Statesmen's North Korea Visit Yields Direct Talks Offer 2011

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