The word can be translated principal elders or senior statesmen.

But that number obscures just how senior some of the senior statesmen are.

And my role as a senior statesman in the party.

"He retired, wrote influential books and became a senior statesman."

Soon known as "wise men," all were respected senior statesmen knowledgeable about life and politics in both countries.

I'm a nurse: I know that you had better have a good reason for calling in the senior statesman in the middle of the night.

Why hire a design senior statesman for the appointments in a room so sequestered and often overlooked?

It was also the first public assassination of a senior statesman in Egypt in more than a century.

Many saw it simply as a stop-gap appointment until some more senior statesman took on the role.

So far, several analysts said the Senator had come across as a qualified senior statesman, but an indecisive one.