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The great bulk of the elite soon brought themselves to collaborate with the conquerors when they were offered tolerable conditions.
Among the members of the post-war generation, this ambitious, perceptive elite is aware of two disturbing and compelling realities.
Behind the counter he was hampered by the local elite: Judges, Doctors, Directors, etc., who would never say die (from hunger) while they lived.
His figure, like that of all men selected for the elite of the cavalry service, though shapely and elegant, was vigorously built.
Now this little animal was not, as may be supposed by some, one of the "common or unclean," but he was one of the elite, a regular society mink.
The countess is much the fashion, and her hospitable house is a rendezvous of the elite of the foreign and American colony.
In a company, comprising a large portion of the elite of Europe, he admirably maintained his reputation as a public speaker.
Already rich Americans, famous authors and artists gravitate as naturally to this new world metropolis, as the world's elite to London and Paris.
New governments will need time to become entrenched, create lines of authority and accountability, and install bureaucracies responsive to the wishes of a new elite.
Cecilia Society inaugurates the fashionable season, the erudite Editor of the Courier will tell you, with an entertainment given to the elite of its members and a few very distinguished foreigners.
To do this, they placed eight elite battalions in an advantageous position, their right bounded by a village by the name of Hoff, their left by a thick wood, and their center protected by a very steep-sided ravine, which could be crossed only by a narrow bridge.
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.
Discipline on space bases was not a pressing problem: the corps was an elite branch and intransigent candidates were weeded out quick.
Latin replaced French in philosophy, history and science, and even in literature the elite preferred to express themselves in the classic tongue.
The accusers are a group of elite universities and top manufacturing organizations that have benefited greatly from Baker's handouts in years past.
For the latter, Sunday was the ideal day, when bull and cock fights secured the attendance of the elite, and the humble, the priest and the laity.
Rule by a permanent and enlightened elite is by far the best form of government; infinitely better than the blundering inefficiencies of democratic rule.
A permanent, benevolent rule by small, carefully chosen elite corps, based upon the sole and exclusive possession of immortality.
Modern democracy holds that knowledge is not for a few bright minds of each generation, not for an intellectual elite; but all that is knowable is to be made accessible to all that desire to know.
With the public weal at heart, the Patriot announces that "there is a dangerous hole in the front steps of the Elite saloon."
Most of my sitters were of the professional classes, and the elite of the city, among whom were Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, Col.
As for the men, he met that at the drug store, where he had relieved the druggist of two dollars, and where the more elite gathered and indulged.
Monsieur Louis, with the elite of his workmen, was decorating its walls with hangings of white satin, looped with garlands suspended from the bills of cooing doves.
This theater is the largest and best equipped place of amusement in Havana, and at its entertainments may be found the elite of the Island republic.
Many of the elite of each nation may yearly be found there during the months of summer, and, as a natural consequence, many of the worst and vilest follow them, in the hope of pillage.
The old elites used the cover of transition to enrich themselves and their cronies, this time "transparently" and "legally".
It was communism all over: a superpower buying influence and colluding with corrupt elites to rob their own nations blind.
The successes of the new elite, as a class, and of its members, individually, served to prove the "justice" behind the tectonic shift.
The hackers in the most elite area would judge you on how much information you provided about breaking into computer or phone systems.
The same is true of Iran, a nation now held hostage by a small clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people.
Elaborate preparations had been made and a part of the program was an attack by Indians on an emigrant train, the Indians being the well mounted young representatives of the city's elite.
They addressed courtiers, and the elite of society of their times, when men had more knowledge of religion than they have now.
Ruined churches and marble halls where once had gathered the elite of a city, the opulence of which had been the wonder of the world, now afforded a nesting place for wild fowl.
Across the lower end of the room an iron railing is stretched, and this keeps the vulgar herd from mingling with the elite of the abandoned women who frequent the Argyle.
On both sides of the Atlantic he mingled with the social elite, whom he impressed with his sagacity, wit, and zest for life.
General Burgoyne believed that the main American attack was directed against his right and thus held Fraser with the elite troops in reserve.
However, I happened to know of a certain select hotel invariably patronized by the elite of the profession, and I went there on a chance.
Sir Joshua formed the circle of his private friends from the elite of his sitters; and Vandyke was, it appears, on the same footing with his.
Only the Sultana and one or two others wore stockings, and slippers were only used by the elite, and to these they seemed a superfluity, since they mostly carried them in their hands.
Its halls were frequented by the elite of rank and station, and by many of that intellectual aristocracy whose genius threw so much luster upon that and the preceding reign.
The shore was thronged with spectators, and the presence of the elite of Hilo stimulated the swimmers to wonderful exploits.
Yet, these horsemen were brave men, the elite of the army, noble knights, guards of the consuls, volunteers of noble families.
On the afternoon of the 1st of December, Theodore started on his merciless errand, taking with him only the elite of his army, the best mounted and the best walkers amongst his men.
The real bail could start only with the grand march; and the grand march was a pompous and intricate affair, possible only after the arrival of the city's elite.
Merton, indeed, contrived to make the Hall a reservoir for the parsonage, and periodically drafted off the elite of the visitors at the former to spend a few days at the latter.