1.   Association members begged the board to rule boldly, despite concern by the town elders that Rennert will sue if his plans are thwarted.

2.   After the first Russian airstrikes in late September, the mayor, Leche Masayev, and town elders made the decision not to let Chechen fighters into town.

3.   But one man conceded the town elders might not be setting the best example.

4.   It was that populist ideal that appealed to town elders, who rejected a bid from another buyer to transform the castle into a golf hotel.

5.   It takes two days to assemble all the dancers, singers, holy men, town elders and celebrants at the grave.

6.   The town elders must approve all development plans.

7.   Umbarger was shot to death while having tea with town elders from the tiny community of Kiumigio on the border of Kenya and Somalia.

8.   In the central Serbian town of Kragujevac, the new authorities have filed lawsuits against eight former Socialist town elders for alleged embezzlement, daily Dnevni Telegraf reported.

9.   In the central Serbian town of Kragujevac, the new authorities have filed lawsuits against eight former Socialist town elders for alleged embezzlement, the daily Dnevni Telegraf reported.

10.   When the town elders tried to disperse local teen-agers from their hangout on the shady courthouse lawn, Bennett went to a hardware store and bought two park benches.