elder statesman in English

noun
1
a person who is experienced and well-respected, especially a politician.
I try to model myself on the elder statesman of Maori in this House, and to follow the way he performs.

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1. Political power resided with the nation's elder statesman and party leader.

2. Now an elder statesman, ambition frustrated but perforce sated, he is positioned to tell a riveting story.

3. Caparison Guitars is, at this point, sort of an elder statesman among high-end metal guitar makers

4. 5 Now an elder statesman, ambition frustrated but perforce sated, he is positioned to tell a riveting story.

5. Phoumi Vongvichit (6 April 1909 – 7 January 1994) was a leading figure of the Pathet Lao and an elder statesman of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

6. The Consigliere is a close, trusted friend and confidant, the mob's version of an elder statesman; he is an advisor to the boss in a Mafia crime family, and sometimes is his 'right-hand man'

7. ‘The conflicts of the time have been forgotten as this embittered old man has been Apotheosised into an elder statesman.’ ‘Aesthetically, unselfconsciousness has often apotheosized eros - the effortless pubescent grace of the Athenian youth ignited the pederastic swoon of seemingly all Greek thought.’