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Durán, projecting the image of elder statesman , was expected to attract votes from the left in the run-off election.
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He was knighted in 1949, then slipped easily into the role of cricketing elder statesman .
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In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing, but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf.
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The installation of the elder statesman Itó Hirobumi as resident 1905-9 marked the significance of the post.
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These opportunities included being a member of a sixteenth-century religious order, an elder statesman and a doctor.