How To Use Elite In A Sentence

Liberal democracy is a fraud, a cover for the power of the elite. Times, Sunday Times
Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the WN.com - Photown News
And that culture was nowhere near moribund, but being kept alive, and by ordinary people as much as ‘elites’.
It is the final guard against nationalistic states that sought the betterment of their people first and foremost and not that of some hypothetical global village or for the internationalistic elite. Pravda blames trotskyites for u.s. empire
That's because Olympic contests are played on a wider ice rink that opens up the game and gives the elite players space to be creative.

At that time the Byzantine Emperor employed Vikings in the elite Varangian Guard. The Last Viking Warrior | Heretical Ideas Magazine
The efforts of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the ruling elite to divert attention from their country's increasingly threadbare imperial pretensions furnished Musil with comic material galore.
The extracts obtained were prefiltered through glass wool and sodium sulfate anhydride and filtered by column chromatography (clean-up performed using sodium sulfate anhydride and Celite 545).
This is the main concern worrying the economic strategists of the Russian ruling elite.
This is the main concern worrying the economic strategists of the Russian ruling elite.
Panzer Elite Sector Artillery costs 3 command points instead of 4.
The Western economic elite has always been a small class and continues so to this day.
Vic Craven edged a ball on to his stumps to make the former England star only the fifth bowler currently playing anywhere in the world to have joined the elite club.
This issue owes less to public prejudice than to the conceit of the liberal elite.
The emphasis on the word Israelite excited my curiosity. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
In fact, it took a highly deceptive sales campaign to get Americans to support the invasion, and even so, voters were never as solidly behind the war as America's political and pundit elite.
This helped foster the development of an elite that could control access to large tracts of land, including forestlands, setting the stage for peasant tenancy later in the period.
The absence of alternation also has consequences for the governing elite.
I think they are likely to lead to conflicts between fragments and fractions within ruling corporate elites.
The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life. Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams
The singular aim of elite globalization is to maximize profits for international corporations.
Only in the 1680s was any serious attempt made to challenge the prescriptive rights of rural and urban elites to exercise power.
Less common, and more exciting, is the skill-prodigy, the ferrety junior ballerina who comes snorting out of his elite rabbit hole ready-made. Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay
The first synthetic polymer produced by a condensation reaction was Bakelite.
Yet today, having been unpegged completely from the world monetary system, gold is neither relic nor toilet tile; it is more important than ever, and precisely because the paper value of goods and services is ever-more dependent on the whims of an elite few. Gold and the Barbarians
It is for logistical rather than symbolic reasons that we are meeting at Old Albanian rugby club in Hertfordshire rather than Twickenham, but it allows Steele to make the point that he hopes to nurture the grassroots as well as the elite game, especially the enthusiastic volunteers that sustain it. England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
Jaworski says McNabb diminishes the impact of his inaccuracy by being an elite scrambler and rarely making stupid throws, and that was true even during his struggles.
As a character study, I've often thought this president was the worst of two worlds: a sense of elite Eastern entitlement without the intellectual rigor and Texas bravado minus the bigheartedness. Jamie Stiehm: When Oliver Stone Makes a Movie, Bring It On
The gulf between the ruling elite and the masses became obscene.
My sense of Tiberius is that he was a bad emperor for the Roman elites in the capital, to whom he was a capricious, paranoid tyrant. Matthew Yglesias » What Would The Roman Empire Do?
The idea that attending opera today is only for the elite and moneyed is absurd. Times, Sunday Times
To his admirers, and they are legion, the glabrous Ailes is something else entirely — a valiant freedom-fighter standing up to the perfidious liberal media elite. Meet the fantastic Mr Fox
Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite. Memory Wall
‘He had taken a very early portable video camera to film the Yanomami Healing, a preliterate Amazonian tribe,’ says Talen.
Remote and uncommunicative was their description as Whyte avoided the hoi polloi, preferring to spend time with the corporate elite.
Spillover would ensure that political elites marched inexorably towards the promotion of integration.
If there is a perception that the elite end of the game has sometimes become estranged from the volunteers that drive the grassroots, Steele has vowed to bring them back together, using the prize of a home World Cup as the driving force. 2015 will offer us an opportunity in three areas. England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
Yet these surges pale beside the rise in the global elite fortunes. Times, Sunday Times
At the city's apex resided a local elite of merchants and professionals who were proudly middle-class.
The match was the first to be forfeited in Test history and led to the umpire losing his place on the elite panel. Times, Sunday Times
While I am a fan of many of the Carmelite saints especially all of the Teresas and my mother seems to really appreciate them, I wouldn't consider myself as having a "Carmelite" spirituality. Archive 2008-08-10
One reason, international carriers say, is they offer frequent-flier perks typically not found with U.S. airlines, such as easier access to lounges and longer grace periods for elite-status qualification. Why 'Free' Tickets Cost So Much
The writers of the Bible used the word calf to express their contempt for the object the Israelites worshiped. Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible
Dr Russel is creating an elite herd by cross-breeding goats from around the globe.
Maybe those elites could even attend the same public Universities with overfilled lecture halls as the common people that will never make it to the elite off any sector. Matthew Yglesias » Institutional Aspects of Regulatory Reform
The Reiksguard forms an elite core of highly trained, expensively-equipped troops who are loyal to the Emperor in person.
He feared that by endorsing Sinclair he would alienate the banking and industrial elite, which he was attempting to win to the side of his New Deal policies.
POGGIOLI: A recent report by the International Crisis group think tank says Kosovo appears to be run by what it calls a lawless political elite in control of every aspect of society. Corruption, Poverty Create Political Gloom In Kosovo
To the country, it would suggest that an arrogant elite was simply arranging the transfer of power.
It's an ingenious hybrid where true believers provide the cannon fodder while an elite cabal of generals, arms merchants, land appropriators, oil prospectors and slave traders, muscle their way into the profits of war.
The nineteenth-century elites kept to their strict Protestant ways, abjuring the theater but supporting music.
Many people know this part of the story but fail to realize the irony of God choosing Moses to do such a tremendous task in freeing the Israelites and disseminating such an important message. Ryan Mack: Man vs. Message: What We Can Learn from the Eddie Long Story
Despite the emphasis on consistency among beliefs, individuals in the elite can support core values that are in conflict.
From Pliocene time the shallow emplacement of intrusive bodies resulted in thermal metamorphism (forming, for example, biotite, cordierite, andalusite, K-feldspar and corundum in pelites) and hydrothermal activity.
What if this plan, through all its complexity, provides a channel through which tax dollars are funneled from the poor to an elite few? King: What will triumph in health care push - reform or recess?
The French press, which has traditionally been reverential and unchallenging of its political and cultural elites, decided that his previous use of her to promote his political career meant that the situation was fair game.
In vote after vote, people have been rejecting the guidance of political establishments, baffling elites and adding to the sum of anger in the world. Times, Sunday Times
The elite were often buried in log-lined tombs within the charnel houses, accompanied by a selection of rich grave goods.
Power is largely concentrated in the hands of a small elite.
Andrei Krestyaninov, a commander of an elite rapid reaction force leading the attack, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
To recognize this political fact and state it bluntly in no way minimizes the criminal repression carried out by the ruling elite in Russia against the Chechen people.
Surely, some say, these elites should not be entirely exempt from pressure to adopt more climate friendly lifestyles.
This Decalogue, which is often called the ritual Decalogue, so it's listed on there in Exodus 34, bans intermarriage with Canaanites less they entice the Israelites into worship of their gods.
The group approach explicitly rejects the notion that a small elite dominates the resource allocation process.
It steals from the U.S. treasury as rapaciously to enrich the corporate elite. Printing: A Farewell to Arms: Why I Left "The Left'
With the advent of the government's new programme, the ruling elite is now orientating itself towards just such a confrontation.
The elite wanted to fraternize with the Pakistanis who had accepted Urdu as the national language.
It is an especially acute problem when we consider party elites, since they are Janus-faced.
It would willingly unburden the clubs of a major share of financial responsibility to England's elite and pay the players itself through central contracting, just as England does with its top cricketers.
The Israelites realizing this started to ask foolish questions in order to evade receiving this law.
The geomantic omen, as the elite of the ancient architecture theory, is not complete mentalism.
When these minorities pass from disobedience to rebellion, the elites lack the resources to quell revolts.
Snooping women got caught up, she writes, in ‘the seamy obverse of elite inquiry.’
The manna that succored the Israelites in the wilderness was gathered in baskets, which thus formed part of a divine act of national salvation.
Panzer Elite AT Halftrack Treadbreaker ability cost increased from 25 munitions to 40 munitions.
We then briefly review the values associated with elite theory.
Since the film isn't likely to break any box office records, this will not be her opportunity to rocket into the elite group of A-list actresses.
We train elite athletes in hopes that they will make it to the Olympics.
As a member of the Commonwealth Minerals Committee during World War II, he identified the potential of King Island scheelite.
I'm wondering if he could be painted as a jaeger since Elite doesn't have a standing jaeger figure yet. Early Elite Miniatures - I Want These Figures
It was an encore to Athens-the chance for the established breed to reaffirm elite standing.
She learned that an army buddy of her son, who serves in an elite commando unit, had died.
It's almost unheard of in France for a top politician not to come from the social elite.
Back before the Searing, they started out as the Ascalon Vanguard, an elite unit that fought alongside Prince Rurik and later ventured into the charr lands to take the battle to them. Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
Until recently, only the most elite of chess wizards remained beyond the reach of computer chess programs.
Rosetti, the founder of the Pre-Raphaelite painting movement shared the tenancy.
In short, our elite athletes often live a life wrapped in cotton wool and protected from the vagaries of growing up.
It is progressive to not only increase knowledge of the world, but to spread this knowledge as widely as possible; to wrap one's arguments in hermetic language is itself reactionary, supporting the position that there is a select "elite" who can understand these issues and cutting pretty much everyone else off from them. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
Kirk Douglas, surrounded by the toast of young, snobby elite, was seen at hot Chelsea nightclub Aria.
What's even more revealing is how the elite has come to see itself as ethically flawed.
But what about Jeremy Paxman's book, Friends in High Places, that showed the best jobs are snaffled by those from public schools and elite universities?
July 28th, 2009 12: 11 pm ET for all of you who label southerns as racist better check your history the area that had the most problems in busing was your boston from that liberal state of mass. also a lot of dems like byrd and gores daddy where part of the kkk and without republician help lbj great society and civil rights bills would not have pased. all you who pass judgement on southerns just do not have a clue you are self seving elitest who are just plain ignorant of the facts i have lived in the midwest south and northeast those from the northeast are the worst as far as being self serving and judgemental Voinovich: The GOP's 'being taken over by Southerners'
Beer and rum, including a fairly raw variety known as aguardiente are the most popular alcoholic drinks, although urban elites prefer Scotch whisky.
Who made up this new elite, this agrarian bourgeoisie? A Social History of Modern Spain
Thus it was in this environment that independent Africa's elites sought to exert their supremacy.
People are defined as illiterate when they do not conform to a set of cultural criteria defined by the ruling elite of a particular society.
Mark Liberman of Language Log has a very suggestive entry about the disfluency of the Wolof elite, as described in Judith Irvine's "Wolof Noun Classification: The Social Setting of Divergent Change" (Language in Society, 7: 37-64 (1978)), at least as he remembers it:...upwardly mobile men among the Wolof nobility cultivate inarticulateness as a sign of status. Languagehat.com: ON NOT SPEAKING WELL.
The exhibition also contains some satirical portrayals of the British elite, which benefited from the salve trade, for example, Sir Foster Cunliffe by Yinka Shonibare of the U. K.
Nantah graduates form a large part of the Chinese cultural elite today.
On the front line of the expanding frontier is an elite of extremely powerful families, closely allied with local politicians.
Thus the assumption of a substantial diglossia in Anglo-Saxon England helps to explain why, after the removal of the Anglo-Saxon elite, Middle English dialect writing appears to feature such "sudden" innovations emanating or radiating from the two focal centres in the North and in the South West. Languagehat.com: FREE HIGHBEAM TRIAL.
Elected governments and administrative elites are passive functionaries who simply facilitate the bargains struck by the functional elites.
The results, which must be disturbing to the various ruling elites, are all the more striking.
England manager Martin Johnson has called the uncapped Northampton full-back or scrum-half Ben Foden into his elite squad for the 2009 Six Nations. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
I would point to Francis Fukuyama's insightful "The End of History", which was only been flawed by assuming that the US was a real democracy --- and not a very subtle, guileful ruling-elite 'corporate financial Empire' disguising itself behind the facade of this two-party 'Vichy' sham of democracy. Coming Soon-- Riots in America?
It is worth spelling out what spectators hope for when they pay top dollar for elite sport. Times, Sunday Times
The cultural landscape predates this, the only ‘wilderness’ of its kind in Portugal, which was created by the Order of Discalced Carrnelites between 1628 and 1630.
And finally, President Obama gave the orders to Navy seal Team Six, an elite unit formerly denounced as "Cheney's death squad," that resulted in the long-awaited killing of Osama bin Laden.
Hamilcar, it is true, might have lost his velites, only half of whom remained, but he would have sacrificed twenty times as many for the success of such an enterprise. Salammbo
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
Legislative and judicial elites are almost completely frozen out of corporatist policy arenas.
Somehow the New Yorker's arcane use of a diaeresis (coöperation) or acute accent (élite) seems quaint - and doesn't interrupt a reader's flow like an additional, superfluous word; even e-mail doesn't itch. Bruce Gilardi: The Gray Lady Doesn't Get the 'Message' (and is Promoting Porn?)
It has only confirmed me in my belief that those who call sports talkback shows to complain about the performance of elite sportspeople have usually never played elite sport themselves!
He has no illusions about the atmosphere of terror and suspicion that pervaded even the elite and rendered all of its servitors vulnerable to unjustified and sudden persecution.
At a time when America's elites said that the United States was in an irreversible decline, and the rest of us should just get used to it, Ronald Reagan stood athwart what was then considered the tide of history and said: ‘No.’
My workstation is an HP EliteBook with 4Gb ram, 2. 5ghz core 2 duo, and a 300gb hard drive. Is The Desktop PC Dead? | Lifehacker Australia
Being a number two is a way to stay connected or to reconnect with elite management. Times, Sunday Times
Consider the rarity of a Vickers gun - handmade by an 18-year-veteran of not just Special Forces, but the most elite group in the entire spec ops community.
Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman WN.com - Articles related to No credible govt action on massacre Asia HR group
They recognized kyanite-staurolite assemblages in pelites to the north of the Annagh Gneiss Complex exposures, but only garnet and oligoclase to the south.
This book reveals the choices and dilemmas that confront elite public research universities.
Public anger was directed against the country 's political elite. Times, Sunday Times
In depressingly familiar style the president's family and cronies formed a privileged elite. Times, Sunday Times
They are acutely aware that their elite backgrounds make them disconnected. Times, Sunday Times
This respect is given whether one is a professor emeritus at an elite university or a recent graduate of a fourth-rate college with an art history major teaching English at a juku for a couple of years before having to face up to finding a real job. Polishing the apple » Japundit Blog
For him, elites abandoned the customary culture, and it became largely plebeian after 1750.
Most strikingly, in the belief that the wider dissemination of the Kabbalah would speed up the effectuation of the messianic project, the Sabbateans were systematically teaching it to their women, especially the esoteric Zohar, in which only a small, exclusively male elite would traditionally have been initiated. Sabbateanism.
His text unequivocally presents an elite perspective of non-elite individuals.
It was no longer divided between the small élite of landowners and a mass of peasants and the poor.
Blinding hatred and contempt seem to be common reactions among the enlightened elites.
If there's anything more off-putting than the British elite's squabbling, it's its self-loathing.
They were followed by the elite regiment of the von Reusch or Black Hussars HR5, decked out in their fearsome all black uniforms and mirliton hats bearing the dreaded death's head on the front of the cap. Archive 2008-01-01
Our business, academic, and media elites, says Kurth, are united in their devotion to global consciousness, transnationalism, multiculturalism, and other dissolvents of American identity.
His preppie ensemble khakis, blue shirt and a blue and purple tie harks back to his school days at elite St. Albans in Washington. The Big Easy's School Revolution
Fashion design, she feared, would become the pastime of a privileged elite. Times, Sunday Times
A developing Asian nation has become a space power and joined the elite club of space.
Burlesque served as a way to counterpoise what these veterans felt was a menacing trend perpetuated by elites - the threat of black equality and a perversion of the war's memory.
It was certainly true that the globalization consensus seemed firmest in places where the international political and business elite gathered, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos. Zero-Sum Future
He is set to enter an elite league of billionaire team owners. Times, Sunday Times
The good society he envisaged was a kind of technocracy, with an educated elite providing the leadership.
The Earl's Court house wasn't in his name masqueraded instead as what it was perfectly equipped to be, an elite rare book dealership and had hitherto been safe. 'The Last Werewolf'
Elite Republican Guard troops deployed tanks and heavy artillery against lightly armed guerrilla units.
There's no denying that the Mavs could stand pat and remain elite.
His play has been an infelicitous concoction of ingenuity and inaccuracy, the latter being generally fatal at this elite level. Times, Sunday Times
Other new venues for elite cultural exchange could be found in literary societies, and learned academies, modelled after the French Academy in Paris.
As Leeds United battle to stay in existence, Birmingham City directors continue to mould the midlands outfit into a club with ambitions to join the Premiership elite.
I'm old enough to remember when a Homelite XL (70's) was the cream of the crop, and I just saw one yesterday go by, proudly jammed into the top rack of a load of lodgepole stovewood. Craftsman Professional 40cc chain saw
They trooped to the stalls put up by Annapoorna and Elite hotels and happily dug into fish biriyani, fish fried rice, fish with chapatti and just good ol’ fish.
Despite the pardon, this former elite-level hockey coach would still have his name flagged on the Canadian Police Information Centre database by a prospective employer if he applied to work at a summer camp, The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The pair find themselves elected to an elite club of pupils. Times, Sunday Times
The Olympic committee said the bobsled association and ‘entrepreneurs or elites in our society’ were supposed to fund the sport and provide a bobsled, uniform and equipment for its Winter Games teams.
His masterpiece is Rossetti and his Circle, published in 1922, which wickedly and wittily anatomizes the foibles of the Pre-Raphaelites.
The local Foothills Elite North 93 team won the major atom title, beating the Red Deer Rustlers 5-2.
In preliterary Latin the stress was undoubtedly a marked feature of the accent, and this continued to be the case in the popular speech throughout the entire history of the language, but, as I have tried to prove in another paper, [21] in formal Latin the stress became very slight, and the pitch grew to be the characteristic feature of the accent. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
It was this view that obstructed his election to membership of the elite photographic co-operative Magnum. Times, Sunday Times
Only on isolated frontiers might homespun fabrics still be found; only among urban elites did imported textiles have a substantial market.
It should be consumed freely, and should be indemnified against the criticism of a leisured elite.
If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
The ruling Ottoman elite added the Turkish Hospital in 1895 and a hammam (Turkish bath house) and fortress in the early twentieth century.
If you warm it up, Bakelite smells of the carbolic acid and formaldehyde that goes into its making.
The experts, who often are referred to as “elites,” were to be a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the “omnicompetent citizen”. Pigs fly, and the Times chides Obama on the oil spill
Gradually their nonconformist business elites improved public health and evolved traditions of voluntary activity, local pride and artistic patronage.
This claim to glory, doubtless exaggerated in stereotypical Gascon fashion, caricatures, indeed cleverly reverses the terms of Soyer's own, far less swashbuckling role in the July Days — Mirobolant would have slain elite troops while standing his ground in the street, whereas Soyer was nearly lynched by a revolutionary mob while fleeing from a palace kitchen. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
It's not so much antimodernism or the distrust of intellectual elites that Richard Hofstadter deftly teased out of the national DNA forty years ago. Encomiums, interviews, and phil
The beneficiaries are those so powerful that they are rarely called to account: an elite centered in First World capitals, who, together with their Third World clients, work to arrange the world to their liking. Global Empire: The Web of Control
This, then, is what Tom Friedman — in antiseptic language designed to leave elite consciences undisturbed — would like to portray as successful American policy: Using the Iraqi people as bait to attract jihadists from around the region and distract them from attacking the American homeland. Wonk Room » Friedman: America Successfully Used Iraqis As Bait
Fr Tony Lester is a Carmelite friar and Prior to a community of Carmelite brothers who live in More House on Heslington Lane.
The building mini - boom is good for the tiny cognac - sipping elite.
Legislative and judicial elites are almost completely frozen out of corporatist policy arenas.
My suspicion is that the parental (and high school) emphasis on extra-curricular resume is an error based on the way that things used to be, when elite colleges used to be focused on the upper classes and their specific cultural values. Back to School Edition, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Now the senatorial elite with its wide-ranging interests had lost power.
Elites always detest gifted and nimble outsiders.
Here, the author is conscious of balancing between the anti-Spartan bias current in the speeches of contemporary Athenian rhetors and the detached tenor in the writings of democracy's elite critics.
Even so, where trade unions did form, they represented only a fraction of the industrial working class: élite groups of metalworkers, shipbuilders, boilermakers, miners, building workers, printers, shoemakers, and spinners.
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The figures shown in the picture above depict Connoisseur 8-pounders and Elite 12-pounders along with some Elite Miniatures artillery crew in bicorn, as worn in the 1805-07 campaigns. Russian Artillery
It will spur corruption and create an oligarchic elite that opposes the emergence of competitive markets.
In our survey of preliterary Latin we had occasion to notice that one of its characteristics was a lack of fixity in the use of forms or constructions. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
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David and Carol are all over the charoset, the sweet, paste-like substance that's supposed to represent the mortar of the bricks that the Israelites were slaving over in Egypt. Angela Himsel: Prepared for Passover -- Not!
Listed in Forbes as one of the top five money earners in his profession, Nobu is on first-name terms with many of Hollywood's élite.
Star Saber and his elite guard defeat Magmatron's inner circle. The rebellion is crushed.
This race brings together elite Canadian and international cyclists for a criterium race through the cobblestone streets of Gastown, an historical downtown district.
Similar to Eisenhower, who warned America of an emerging scientific-technological elite, Mao was concerned that scientists could take over as a "technical elite," so he demanded that ideology take precedence over science, effectively silencing scientists, not unlike several American antiscience conservative radio commentators today who complain of a "scientific dictatorship. Shawn Lawrence Otto: GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road
According to the Bible, ever since the Israelites made their escape from Egypt in the middle of the night, following their first paschal meal, Passover has been marked by a nighttime ceremony.
After the election the political elite will pull the strings of these puppets as it suits them. The Sun
Consequently, religion remained the chief stuff of politics and the Anglican elite to an important extent ruled on sufferance.
It's a perfect example of how conservative elites are out of touch with the reality of people who do earn an honest living.
They carried 250 elite Russian airborne troops. Times, Sunday Times
That's if the world's sporting elite find themselves with time to spare between limbering up for races in their hectic schedule.
There is a reasonably respectable visible elite and a murky and far from respectable hidden group within the leadership core. The Government and Politics of France
In the rural areas, priests ministered to a largely illiterate population and, among them, were viewed with some deference for their literacy, their links to local elites, and their contacts with the wider world.
The elite have the skills to make sure their problems are first on the consultant's list; the lumpenproletariat do not.
The protagonist is a Carmelite nun who is gifted with visions and who writes inspiring poetry about them.
Belonging to a more elite corps, they promoted the railway by actively participating in the modernisation of the steel industry, creating English-style forges and a renaissance in smelting furnaces.
Edna McGurk came from an insular inner circle of elite Philadelphia society.
Elites depend on normative interpretations of cultural forms to promote docile and tractable underlings; non-elites reinterpret the great traditions in order to meet their own social needs.
This elite had no formal place in the fifteenth century constitutions and was therefore not subject to direct control.
There is now a clear distinction between two strands of modern elite theory.
Of course, almanacs for the elite cannot be prepared without numbers and geometry, but the architecture as a whole can be disclosed by much simpler arguments; grade school experience suffices.

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