It was venerable.

This is the most venerable of the happinesses, traditionally.

Meeting with the Venerable Tep Vong, Head of the Buddhist Mohanikay Order

(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.

IFOR member Venerable Bimal Bikkhu was one of the persons chosen to open the 1993 Year of Indigenous Peoples.

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

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.

Insurance, on the other hand, is a reliable and venerable institution, its modern form dating back to the seventeenth century. But insurance and other risk management institutions have been slow to develop, even in advanced countries.

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.

The world s first university was Plato s Academy in Athens, venerable old universities are scattered across Europe from Coimbra to Cambridge to Copenhagen, and the modern university, uniting research and education, was pioneered by Wilhelm von Humboldt in Berlin.

I've called this meeting today to say how pleased I am with the way all of you have worked together put shoulder to shoulder and succeeded in turning this venerable family publication into the filthy rag it is today.

The continent shuts down on the assumption that nothing of consequence will happen until everyone returns, suitably tanned, in September. 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.

Most Westerners think the answer is liberal democracy, as did many Chinese liberals in the twentieth century. 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.

But Americans will remember this homegrown plot as a highly symbolic moment an attack on a venerable international sporting event on Patriots Day. The marathon is a cherished event, for it reflects the peaceful values of a democratic society that seeks to transcend its challenges through sheer endurance.

Although Murdoch remains chairman of both, everyone expects him to focus more on the news business. 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.

I also greet the Arab nation and its kings, Presidents and Emirs on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the League of Arab States, that venerable organization that has served the Arab world and brought its States and peoples together under one banner, and protected its identity from fragmentation and oblivion.

Some pretend that the rise in violence there to levels not seen since 2008 has nothing to do with Syria. 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.

To be sure, the profits currently being earned by the leading financial firms are dizzyingly high. Goldman Sachs, the venerable Wall Street firm at the epicenter of financial globalization, paid more than 16 billion dollars in compensation to its 25,000 employees in 2006, and spun out another 9 billion for its shareholders a total that is greater than the annual income of most African countries.

Which brings me to the paradox of ignorance in our era on the one hand, we are constantly bombarded by expert opinion, by all sorts of people with or without Ph.D. after their name who tell us exactly what to think (though rarely why we should think it). 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.