| It is easy to depict them as a complacent gerontocracy immured in its certainties and unwilling to rethink the future. |
| In the gerontocracy that was early America, the Puritans held that living to a ripe old age was a sign from above. |
| Can it lay the ghost of the Roman imperium and become something other than a male gerontocracy? |
| If such longtime supporters abandoned ship, surely the gerontocracy in Hanoi was out of touch. |
| The author was, of course, the first to depict a totalitarian gerontocracy. |
| Niuean society is a gerontocracy based on obedience to and respect for those who are older than oneself. |
