Taine irritated the elite of the 3rd French republic as well as everyone who believed in the popular democracy based on one person one vote.
Thus the drawings-room audience of the 18th century have today been replaced by the "political correct" elite holding sway in teacher training schools, schools of journalism, the media and hence among the television public.
The ruling regime is a mixture of military elite and an Islamist party that came to power in a 1989 coup.
Once more Belle attended before the elite of the town to receive a considerable sum of money, and she was cheered to the echo by the huge crowd, amongst whom there were hundreds of men who had sworn to capture Belle Star alive or dead.
The swindler maintained the deception by giving dinners, for which the elite scrambled to obtain invitations.
Every effort had been made to make the SS a highly disciplined organization composed of the elite of National Socialism.
The Politischen Leiter were a distinctive and elite group within the Nazi Party proper and as such were vested with special prerogatives.
The SS was originally established by Hitler in 1925 as an elite section of the SA for political purposes under the pretext of protecting speakers at public meetings of the Nazi Party.
About 300 of the elite of the town went out by rail, danced, and had supper, returning to town by 1 o'clock in the morning.
While wanting to assist the masses, however, he argued that the important priority, at the beginning, must be given to training a leadership elite which he called "the talented tenth.
Therefore DuBois shifted to a concept of a group solidarity instead of an elite leadership.
The assumption that an educated and cultured elite would be accepted within white society had proved to be erroneous.
Though the elite ruled and the masses served, rights and obligations which limited the amount of exploitation were always in existence.
This elite would also include professionals and businessmen who would set an example of good citizenship for the whole community.
Paris had declared a holiday for this occasion, and as the proceeds of the entertainment were to be given to the fund for devastated France the elite of the country were there.
We go to a cafe, where the elite of New York are gathered, and dance until midnight.
The cortege was very numerous, including the elite of the population.
But I was in error, which I recognised for the first time at the Italian Opera House where Liszt gave his first concert, and before an assembly which is best described as the elite of society here.
This society consists of the elite of the scholars who owe their education to Harvard, and of distinguished professional men.
They were, on the whole, a fine-looking set of men, and interesting to a stranger as being the elite of the lettered society of the republic.
The exclusive and elite of the social world made up his company.
Her salon was the centre of the elite and of all literary and political discussions; but as the majority of its frequenters were partisans of the English constitution and expressed their views openly and freely, her enemies became numerous.
At the top of the social pyramid is the small ruling elite composed of the top leadership of the party, government, security forces, mass organizations, and the various branches of the economy.
Membership in the ruling elite is accompanied by considerable insecurity because it is highly dependent on political loyalty and correct interpretation of ideology.
The elite group in town, as in the village, was the intelligentsia.
The ruling elite also includes members of the cultural and intellectual elite who, by virtue of their political loyalty and willingness to serve the regime, share in the privileges usually reserved to the top leadership.
Social restructuring has resulted in a system wherein the party eliteoccupies the highest level.
The main criterion for membership in the ruling elite is power derived from approved ideological orientation and political manipulation.
Zhivkov, in his closing speech, seemingly aware that the political conservatism of the old ruling elite left something to be desired, maintained that "the communist is .
Any opposition to the ruling elitehad come from within the party rather than from outside organizations.
He's going on to tell her some more about what he feels like, but Vernabelle is now greeting Oswald Cummings, the pagan of splendid sins, from the Elite Bootery.
And Oswald Cummings of the Elite Bootery, was another.
The life-style and privileges enjoyed by the ruling elite do not differ much from those of the intelligentsia, the next level in the social scale, but the elite holds a monopoly of power.
The main criterion for membership in that elite is power derived from approved ideological orientation and political activism.
The ruling elite is composed of the top communist leadership in the party, government, mass organizations, and various branches of the economy.
Most members of the ruling elite in 1971 were of lower class background and were veterans of the communist movement in the interwar period.
Children of workers and peasants will not be denied opportunity for higher education, but it would appear that the path to opportunity will be easier for children of the party elite and the professional classes.
And besides all this, he gave every year three grand balls in Carnival; and his house was at all times open every Sunday and Wednesday evening to the elite of the society of the city.
The Free French had provided defense systems, and the French Elite a modest fleet (later to be supplemented by the more sophisticated weapons of Soviet Space, never far in the background at the birth of a nation they hoped to seduce).
So he detached hiselite unit, consisting almost entirely of Blue Angel flyers and Special Forces assault troops, to Westmoreland Station.
In Germany, idealism, permeating the masses, has been sugared into sentimentalism and watered into a mercantile optimism; and here a still smaller elite preserves complete freedom aloof from the crowd.
The elite of the intellect constitutes an aristocracy which would fain replace the aristocracy of birth.
In France, liberty is too widely diffused and engenders chaos, while a few individuals comprising the elite keep their idealism intact.
Through the kindness of Fred's host, the principal merchant in the island, we were offered an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the ELITE of the Honolulu nymphs.
The ELITE of society was there, in diamonds, ribbons, and stars, to meet him.
Among them, an elite few were entirely willing to spend as much time as necessary to study every beast in a herd, so that they might finally select the one best fitted to their requirements.
Finally, the seven dalul were the very elite of the almost thirty thousand camels with the Hadj.
When you are a hacker, it is your own inner conviction of your elite status that enables you to break, or let us say "transcend," the rules.
As far as he was concerned, elite status in the digital underground had placed him permanently beyond the intellectual grasp of cops and straights.
Hackers at their most grandiloquent perceive themselves as the elite pioneers of a new electronic world.
In underground circles, to hang out on ALTOS was considered the sign of anelite dude, a sophisticated hacker of the international digital jet-set.
Naturally, UNIX also became a standard for the elite hacker and phone phreak.
Boards do not involve an editorial elite addressing a mass audience.
Unlike the Mafia or Medellin Cartel, the hacker elite cannot simply execute the bigmouths, creeps and troublemakers among their ranks, so they turn one another in with astonishing frequency.
The Phoenix board would also boldly bring elitehackers face-to-face with the telco "opposition.
Organized labor is here to stay for a long time to come, and as the elite of the wage-earning class it should, and probably will, be an increasing force for political betterment and for social welfare in the republic.
Russia is driven by kaleidoscopically shifting coalitions within a narrow elite, not by its masses - and the elite wants money, a lot of it and now.
He caters to the needs of the elite by cozying up to the West and, in particular, to America - even as he provides the lower classes with a sense of direction and security they lacked since 1985.
The new middle class comprises the embryonic legitimate business elite - entrepreneurs, professionals and managers - but not the remnants of the financially strapped intelligentsia.
To theelite of the world falls the task of guarding it.
But it is likewise the enemy of the intellectualelite of Russia itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
