Examples of senior statesman

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

• Ideas of this nature were promulgated and espoused by well-respected and senior statesmen after the last world war.

• It is also a period of lull when, in two or three places, there are senior statesmen of great experience.

• There have been some very weighty arguments by senior statesmen of great weight.

• His own comments at the conference of senior statesmen gave no hint that he favored any early cessation of the war...