Sentences with phrase «old war horse»

If I were an up and coming young Labour ladder climber with a seriously threatened career path chatting with a battered old war horse looking at the prospect of enforced retirement to the long grass I would be discussing concepts way beyond Brown's inevitable departure.

A special edition car with emerald green paint and white interior is set to debut in about six months, otherwise Ford's old war horse heads into the»90s unchanged and selling better than ever.

Nintendo's old war horse resists the odds of saturation, not so much raising the bar for itself as putting it back where it should have been in recent years.

But the old war horse showed once again that old age doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing.

Anyway, the old war horse, never short of a word or two, was generous with his time.

You can't keep the old war horse down,» said Wright, adding, «I'm with him all the way.»

Jake works at KZI Investments for Louis Zabel (Frank Langella), an old war horse still plugging away at making money.

Gertrude «Gertie» Guerin (née Ettershank, also known as «Old War Horse»), chief, politician, community advocate, elder (born 1917 in Mission, BC; died 1998).

I hope it will be helpful and you do not read this as sour grapes from an old war horse who has been to a lot of community meetings and business - related committee gatherings.