We want a Europe where power flows upwards from nation states and their peoples, and not downwards from Brussels and its remote elites. |
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The colonial period was marked by the vacillating popularity of French influence over Merina elites. |
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Competition between elites is too easily turned into collusion between plunderers. |
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Swinging voters will see it as a sign that he has escaped from the clutches of the Chardonnay swilling elites. |
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Unfortunately, their good work is undermined by a professional association that is more attuned to the elites than to those at the coalface. |
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These elites raised militias that freed U.S. forces from town security duties and joined garrison soldiers to hunt guerrillas in the boondocks. |
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Unlike those who were angling for jobs or social approbation or credibility among the beltway elites, we just said what we thought. |
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The truth is both the Indian and Pakistani elites have tried to defect social discontent by fanning communalism and religious fundamentalism. |
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There is a growing tendency to conflate the interests of the governing elites with those of the nation. |
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As he put it himself on the weekend, he will have finally defeated the elites. |
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Town life also presented new challenges of economic and social organization to urban elites. |
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Yet the poor, especially, need the power of democracy to defend themselves against corrupt elites. |
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For Serbian elites it is the international community that must not be let down, rather than the electorate. |
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This was replaced from the 17th to 19th centuries by the noble and educated elites. |
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While the regime worked with the elites, it proved helpless when the people took to the streets. |
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Highly sophisticated elites are the easiest and least original thing a society can produce. |
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The traditional elites were relegated into the background several decades ago. |
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In fact, Murray comments that societal elites were less likely to be religious. |
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The 1960s precipitated a major crisis of confidence among the ruling elites. |
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Polls show that the British people are inexorably losing faith in their governing elites and institutions. |
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He says the action is in the cities, where urban elites are the future of the country. |
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The company can boast a strong line-up of partners among the handheld device and mobile operator elites. |
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Many Europeans, in a way Americans find impossible to understand, are willing to let their elites lead them by the nose. |
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One should bear in mind that the media and the intellectual elites generally have their particular agendas. |
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The results, which must be disturbing to the various ruling elites, are all the more striking. |
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It is a model strictly for people who are into hierarchical societies with bossy elites who like to display their power. |
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Homeless people on the edge of starvation do on average need that next dollar more than the fashionable elites choosing between vintage wines. |
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The constitution is the epitome of Europe de haut en bas, of decisions imposed by elites. |
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The elites are banking and relying on our complicity for the maintenance and furtherance of empire. |
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At this late stage, the elites found themselves forced to work upon the increasingly dysfunctional myths. |
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They also dovetail with data on continuities among elites across the revolutionary and post-revolutionary eras. |
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It transfers power and privilege from working people into the hands of corporate elites. |
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He did not become captive to progressive elites, nor did he seek their approval, and nor did he relish standing alone contra mundum. |
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Cultural elites have been replaced by officeholders and politicos, ambitious men who are part of the village bourgeoisie. |
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I think they are likely to lead to conflicts between fragments and fractions within ruling corporate elites. |
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For many years political and media elites have lived for inside information. |
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Instead of seeking to broaden its appeal to urban elites or local strongmen, the GMD sought unsuccessfully to compel their submission by force. |
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This resulted in a system of synarchy, a system of joint administration by British officials and local elites. |
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He prides himself on ignoring the distracting chatter, the caterwauling of the media elites, the Washington political buzz machine. |
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Spillover would ensure that political elites marched inexorably towards the promotion of integration. |
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The trump card that the elites have played over and over is white nationalism. |
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It was glamorous as always with an ungodly amount of social elites crowding the ballrooms and game rooms. |
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In Dijon as elsewhere, these elites enjoyed considerable wealth, property, and status. |
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Up until then the language of the intellectual elites had in the main been Italian. |
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Desperation abounds, especially among the young and those beyond the gilded circle of the Parisian elites. |
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The initial reaction from governing elites and their media camp followers was disbelief. |
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Yet the attack has made such an impact on the anxious and insecure Western elites that there is serious talk of it causing an economic recession. |
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The wealthy elites who make up the governing class can see which way the wind is blowing. |
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The obsession with the far right tells us far more about insecure and uncertain elites than it does about political reality on the ground. |
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All this has produced explosive social contradictions, including a vast chasm between the wealthy elites and the mass of the population. |
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In each case the ruling elites were chosen from weak minority groups in order to make their power dependent on the colonial power. |
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In a totalitarian regime or even an oligarchy we have a ruler, or a group of elites ruling over the masses. |
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The real bigots and haters are you, Michael Moore and the liberal media elites. |
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Ruling elites, terrified by this ticking demographic time bomb, have two choices. |
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Kindreds, networks of related nuclear families, are very important to the urban elites. |
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Add a landed gent to the equation, and it's hard not to see this deal as one that was struck by powerful elites. |
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He was against colonialism and neo-colonialism in all their forms, against racism, elites, and authoritarians of all varieties. |
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Since our highbrow elites are no longer capable of giving good advice, we middlebrows must use our own judgment to decide what art to buy. |
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The nineteenth-century elites kept to their strict Protestant ways, abjuring the theater but supporting music. |
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When these minorities pass from disobedience to rebellion, the elites lack the resources to quell revolts. |
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This political apathy enabled the ruling elites to exercise their authority unconstrained by popular pressure. |
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Local elites abandoned the countryside for towns and had little contact with the peasantry. |
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Now it appears that our dream is threatened by an unfortunate dust-up between the two New York blog elites. |
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The large bureaucracies that implement dirigisme are a dead weight on society, but support the ruling elites with whom they share the spoils. |
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The world's super-rich elites are using tax avoidance techniques to hoard huge amounts of wealth. |
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Political parties tend to follow ethnic lines and draw their leaders from educated elites. |
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Surely, some say, these elites should not be entirely exempt from pressure to adopt more climate friendly lifestyles. |
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Latham is overly fond of a technocratic style of language, favoured by business elites. |
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Education was the means by which elites could pacify the people as a collective, rendering them governable through moral suasion. |
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Only in the 1680s was any serious attempt made to challenge the prescriptive rights of rural and urban elites to exercise power. |
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Middle-class models of domesticity gradually spread into both the working classes and aristocratic elites. |
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One should bear in mind that the media and intellectual elites generally have their particular agendas. |
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For Europe's elites, anti-Americanism is a sterile response to the galling fact that Europe committed semi-suicide in the 20th century. |
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In their search for some kind of self-justification, for a sense of moral purpose, Western elites turned to the international arena. |
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In an age of information overabundance, we need cultural elites more than ever to stand over and above the cultural morass of mediocrity. |
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The city's elites thought they had dodged a bullet by pulling some well-placed political strings within the state government. |
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Chapter 2 takes up the financial activities of elites, who routinely loaned money at interest. |
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And yet, it is leading the EU down a primrose path because the over-educated european elites can't understand how America works. |
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But we view our own political elites, fighting against them, with more than a hint of suspicion. |
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Thus we have the makings of a quite subversive literary tradition that seeks to undermine the tightly controlled world of the urban elites. |
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Blinding hatred and contempt seem to be common reactions among the enlightened elites. |
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Affluence also creates an ever-growing class of well-off consumers, many of whom seek to emulate the crudities of consumption of the elites. |
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He writes about the divide in society between the elites, who are cosmopolitans, and the mass of citizens, who are nationalists. |
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They reflect the values of the elites, and not their larger working class constituency. |
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Because the Easterners are acting as a moderating, sensible influence on the rampant anti-American nouveau socialism of the EU elites. |
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It's a perfect example of how conservative elites are out of touch with the reality of people who do earn an honest living. |
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Thus it was in this environment that independent Africa's elites sought to exert their supremacy. |
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Periodicals were then the prime means of communicating ideas among the informed and cultured elites. |
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The elites in those countries look at us and marvel at what we show is possible, even if they do think we have had it easy. |
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Where protest embodies an actual challenge to the stability of government power or ruling social elites, the contingent nature of that right emerges. |
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Putin is also, for obvious reasons, not a great fan of people-power democracy movements that overthrow corrupt, thieving elites. |
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Sikh leaders, gurus and elites were written about, but not dissenting movements, religious mobilisations, and the diversity of cultures within Sikhism itself. |
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Culturally, Perry is much closer to the base than the libertarian peaceniks or the East Coast elites. |
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We see it when any elite is able to get away with a malevolent act because elites protect each other. |
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They are elites, in short, even though they make less money and wield less power than others of that designation. |
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The chief goal of the traditionalistic political culture is the maintenance of the status quo, with political power concentrated in the hands of established elites. |
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The Indonesian elites must abandon their myopic ethno-religious politics and instead promote all-inclusive politics capable of accommodating differences. |
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So when you see the elites floating away in their yachts while you're barely treading water, before you get angry, take a moment to feel their pain. |
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This is evident in the conspicuous consumption of the elites. |
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These societies were well known as the cradle of the country's elites. |
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Passions ran high as raillery at the religious orders, and attacks on collaborationist elites found expression in personal correspondence and in the press. |
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A much more interesting way of looking at the elites vs. battlers debate is to accept the premise that there are competing elites, and competing visions of the good society. |
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Beer and rum, including a fairly raw variety known as aguardiente are the most popular alcoholic drinks, although urban elites prefer Scotch whisky. |
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The kibbutz elite was replaced by several new elites, but the settlers were the first to claim the mantle as heirs. |
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The danger of nationalism is that it is often used as a lever for power, both by the elites in search of authority and the masses in search of community. |
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For this purpose, Cretan elites borrowed from the Mycenaean world vessels such as the kylix, goblet, bowl, and krater in order to emphasize the moment of consumption. |
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He also criticized the European Union for being a toy for political elites and civil servants, detested by the people for its largeness of scale, bureaucracy and megalomania. |
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The fear that Pascal might weather the storm has du Vernay, Oprah Winfrey, and other Hollywood elites pulling their punches. |
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They have also held out the invitation to their readers among the political and intellectual elites to join them in becoming their nation's redeemers. |
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But the Tea Party is being paid for by the Koch Brothers and other moneyed elites. |
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First, the secular, often state-capitalist, modernizing projects of the elites in the region became stalled in corruption, tyranny and cultural stagnation. |
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The survival of the old elites extended to the gentry and petty nobility. |
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The only question left was which of these Tinsel Town elites would ruin their expensive designer clothes to jump into a giant pond to save an unemployable actor? |
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Although local elites are given agency and demonstrate a degree of control in the tourist discourse, subaltern locals involved in the tourist trade remain compliant. |
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More than anything, party elites want to hitch their wagon to someone who can win, and someone they can trust. |
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This session raises the question of the elites and corporativism in different parts of the Iberian world, in other words, Spain, Portugal and various Latin American countries. |
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To point that out, of course, will only strengthen her sense of being persecuted by supercilious elites. |
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Longstanding ties often led us to overlook the faults of local elites. |
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If the elites continue to ignore the hard realities faced by a growing majority of us, they'll need to build mighty high fences around their own compounds. |
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The cultural elites want to minimalize this powerful virtue. |
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The privatisation of politics has also impacted on political elites. |
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Early modern scholars often go too far in ignoring the existence of divergent interests between commons and elites, focusing only on vertical rather than horizontal linkages. |
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As the century began, a major division in the historically dominant Protestant churches had the indirect effect of distancing cultural elites from religion. |
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Populism is very powerful where the populace is disdained by the elites. |
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This has earned him a reputation in the business press and among policy elites as an enfant terrible inclined to stir up trouble wherever he goes. |
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Excluded by racist societies, denied equal opportunity, and denigrated by their own Westernized elites, they have developed an exclusivist mind-set. |
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Perhaps more importantly, it showed them that the news media could act as a key conduit between the country's most powerful political elites and a public they meant to keep in the dark. |
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The cuspness of such states could be instrumentalized by their elites in order to play a constructive role in bridging the processes of regional integration in neighbouring areas. |
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The United States seemed to be suffering from a surfeit of power, which made it difficult for elites to formulate any coherent principles for its use. |
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While these men were not above occasionally swindling other working-class people, for the most part their actions were directed at the region's elites. |
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Large interest organisations are not to be found in the lobby, perhaps because they have direct access to the power elites even after the end of corporativism. |
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This is because the Europeanized elites who've ruled the country have long joined foreign corporate exploiters in plundering Bolivia's resources and people. |
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With such bosh was Mr. Robbins attempting to argue that President Bush went to war, with the help of Strauss-loving elites, merely to secure his re-election. |
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My counter-intuitive feeling is that the constant exhortations of the need for leaders does not come from ordinary Australians but from certain elites. |
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Uneven development provided a fertile ground for burgeoning localism and regionalism, leading the bureaucratic elites to defend vehemently their narrow regional interests. |
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As the author of this monograph points out, the ruling elites in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have never set their sights on achieving competitive market economies. |
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The Army has always had a love-hate relationship with elites. |
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One of the things about elites is that they only care about the approbation of the members of their own elites. |
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Today, it's our governing elites, regardless of party, who are most apt rush us into the future. |
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At least the old elites learned to sail and row while acquiring proof of their right to rule. |
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And elites with ambitions in national politics are learning to electioneer accordingly. |
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The most effective weapon Anglo-Saxon elites have used to preserve power in American society has been the rule of law. |
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Gradually their nonconformist business elites improved public health and evolved traditions of voluntary activity, local pride and artistic patronage. |
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Both went to Oxford University and chafed at the snobbery of English elites. |
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On the other hand there are the elites, mostly Punjabi, civil and military, who run the country. |
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Families that do build petty empires flame out, but the grand empire ruled by our churning elites burns on, evidently, forever. |
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Some national elites, especially the Chechens, Azeris and Georgians, accuse the country of fomenting the conflicts and of destabilizing the region. |
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The British name Caedbaed is found in the pedigree of the kings of Lindsey, which argues for the survival of British elites in this area also. |
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As the empire disintegrated, many among these elites were able to seek and control their own affairs. |
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Many of the empire's elites now sought to control their own affairs, and broke away to form independent kingdoms. |
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The muralists' vibrant brush strokes of color and form engage the hearts and soul of both the nonliterate campesinos and urban elites. |
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Likewise, British authorities selected Sunni Arab elites from the region for appointments to government and ministry offices. |
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Cooperation with local power elites was necessary to maintain order, collect information, and extract revenue. |
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The roots of democracy were present, although deference was typically shown to social elites in colonial elections. |
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Thegns, the local landowning elites, either fought with the royal housecarls or attached themselves to the forces of an earl or other magnate. |
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Countries governed by communist parties had protests against bureaucratic and military elites. |
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Saudi Arabia remained hostile to any form of political and social reform in Yemen and continued to provide financial support for tribal elites. |
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Long distance trade may have seen local elites resorting to struggle in order for manipulation and control. |
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Is there a nobler or more disinterested aim than to educate the cadres, the elites of tomorrow? |
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To what extent this was a basis for the development of elites and social hierarchies is a matter of ongoing debate. |
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The French modernised public life, for example by introducing the Napoleonic code and removing the old elites from power. |
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Monasteries and episcopal seats were shrewdly awarded to elites who supported the dynasty. |
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This pragmatic use of monasteries ensured close ties between elites and monastic properties. |
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Many of their families contributed to the development of intellectual elites in their countries. |
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However, there was a conservatism among the elites that warned against going too far. |
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The Prussian landed elites, the Junkers, retained a substantial share of political power in the unified state. |
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Globalization, according to the sociologist, has turned elites into tourists in their own countries. |
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The elites show less and less interest in the many now almost extinct nonelectric uses of the Sun. |
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These herds also came to symbolize class distinctions between the commoners and the elites. |
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As the rainfall decreased, many of the cities farther away from Lake Titicaca began to tender fewer foodstuffs to the elites. |
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As the surplus of food decreased, and thus the amount available to underpin their power, the control of the elites began to falter. |
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These towns continued to be ruled by indigenous elites under the Spanish crown, with an indigenous governor and a town councils. |
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Indigenous elites were an integral part of the repartimiento, often being recipients of large extensions of credit. |
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However, some scholars also attempt to link the Taibugids to the Kipchak elites and others. |
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Exotic furs such as fox, marten, grey squirrel and ermine were reserved for aristocratic elites. |
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That is, indigenous elites inside West and Central Africa made large and growing profits from slavery, thus increasing their wealth and power. |
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The Bahraini uprising has been ignored by Arab leaders and world elites. |
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The Germanic elites were Arians, and the Romance majority population was Nicene. |
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The Norman elites greatly influenced, but eventually assimilated with, each of the local cultures. |
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The elites, in turn, raised taxes on commerce, immiserating peasants and artisans and putting Spain on a path of long-term economic decline. |
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The generation gap between political elites and the majority of the population who are much younger was another factor. |
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Instead, they have become state corporatists and managerial elites who represent and enforce the wishes of the elite class. |
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Like the compradore elites, the revolutionaries of the former colonies are hamstrung by their hollow mimicry. |
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This dynamism is always in danger of being stultified by planners who think they can tame it and by governing elites who want to rig it. |
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That's an inexcusable lack of leadership from our political elites. |
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Change is typically initiated by elites who are outside the centermost positions of prestige. |
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Civilizational elites infantilize nonelites to keep them powerless. By letting elites babify us, we lose power. |
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The Norman rulers and the Gaelic Irish elites intermarried and the areas under Norman rule became Gaelicised. |
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Early Irish literature casts light on the flavour and tradition of the heroic warrior elites who dominated Celtic societies. |
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These colonies were often made out of existing communities, especially those with elites who could rally the populace to the Roman cause. |
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Political elites feared the Chartists in the 1830s and 1840s as a dangerous threat to national stability. |
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Driven by pragmatic demands of budgets and manpower the British made deals with the nationalist elites. |
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Family ties within the elites were important, as were the virtues of loyalty, courage, and honour. |
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The Czech intellectual elites were to be removed not only from Czech territories but from Europe completely. |
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Expanding commerce during Mughal rule gave rise to new Indian commercial and political elites along the coasts of southern and eastern India. |
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While Italian political scientists argue that the term 'primaries' sounds quite inappropriate, party elites have long disagreed on the relative openness of the selectorate. |
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The Maya political landscape was highly complex and Maya elites engaged in political intrigue to gain economic and social advantage over neighbours. |
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Crossing swords with oligarchs is one problem. An equally tough problem is crossing swords with the straight political elites, particularly the power ministries. |
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However, some archaeologists have argued against this view, saying there is no archaeological or placename evidence for a migration or a takeover by a small group of elites. |
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Britain also built up a large British Empire in Africa and Asia, which it ruled through a small number of administrators who supervised local elites. |
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The new king is viewed warily by Bangkok's elites, who have sometimes worried that he sympathises with populist politicians whom the army has twice kicked from power. |
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When asked why he is the best model of leadership, elites most often say it is his ability to cooperate with other leaders in Latin America and beyond. |
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Yet by the end of the century, a new level of censoriousness had developed, born of a now extraordinarily tight embrace between central authority and local elites. |
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In Spanish America many local elites formed juntas and set up mechanisms to rule in the name of Ferdinand VII, whom they considered the legitimate Spanish monarch. |
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Scholars have speculated that emerging elites were symbolically and physically appropriating dead ancestors to emphasize and project their own authority. |
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But a policy at once liberal and progressive at one turn was reactionary and backward at the next, creating new elites and confirming old attitudes. |
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While British elites at first hoped the Commonwealth would preserve and project British influence, they gradually lost their enthusiasm, argues Krishnan Srinivasan. |
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It organised the mass murder of Polish elites in Operation Tannenberg. |
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Such movements were aided by the refusal of the western Roman elites to support the army or pay the taxes that would have allowed the military to suppress the migration. |
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Intermarriage between the new kings and the Roman elites was common. |
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Clothing for the elites was richly embellished with jewels and gold. |
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In Spanish America many local elites formed juntas and set up mechanisms to rule in the name of Ferdinand VII of Spain, whom they considered the legitimate Spanish monarch. |
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There are survivals from the large brooches in fibula or penannular form that were a key piece of personal adornment for elites, including the Irish Tara Brooch. |
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The purpose of marriage between the medieval elites was to secure land. |
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Latin continued in use as a language of learning long after the Reformation had established the vernaculars as liturgical languages for the elites. |
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In these colonies cricket was established as a popular sport either by white settlers or by local elites who wanted to copy the habits of their colonial masters, as in India. |
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Added to the land-grant mission of our university is the fact that we live and work in a state with a strong populist heritage that includes a dim view of elites and elitism. |
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The archaeologist Ewan Campbell argues against this view, saying that there is no archeological or placename evidence for a migration or a takeover by a small group of elites. |
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They argue that Africans, or more accurately African elites, deliberately let European traders join in an already large trade in enslaved people and were not patronized. |
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This campaign served to strengthen imperial support at home, and thus, says Cain, to bolster the moral authority of the gentlemanly elites who ran the Empire. |
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However, in a system where wealth was hoarded by elites, wages were depressed for manual labour, though no less than labour wages in Europe at the time. |
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Polyarchy is a system in which a small group of elites actually rules a country, and the majority can choose only to accept or refuse their leadership. |
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By the 1930s, the factions within Canadian Toryism were associated with either the urban business elites, or with rural traditionalists from the country's hinterland. |
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Named in the leak were 12 current or former world leaders, 128 other public officials and politicians, and hundreds of other members of the elites of over 200 countries. |
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The political elites are using the word democracy as an ordinary floscule. |
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The voluntary conversion of Chinese ruling elites helped the spread of Buddhism in East Asia and led Buddhism to become widespread in Chinese society. |
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Tiwanaku's elites gained their status through the surplus food they controlled, collected from outlying regions and then redistributed to the general populace. |
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Amidst the snow-capped peaks in this semi-remote canton, the world's elites indulge in intense networking, customer ingratiation, and platitudinizing with one's peers. |
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As well as corporate elites and board interlocks, she studies business-financed think-tanks, and gives new insights into gender patterns at elite levels of power. |
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Bentham's felicific calculus, that policy should be concerned with the greatest happiness of the greatest number, gradually confined beauty to a preserve of elites. |
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An important empirical task is to determine whether purposive muddling is better than best practice when elites have reasons to impede progress for their populations. |
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Opinion-molding elites bent on indoctrinating the masses in the gospel of globalism worked to misdirect that reverence by focusing it on the creation, rather than the Creator. |
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Zapotec elites engaged in the market economy early on, which undermined to an extent the bonds between commoners and elites who colluded with the Spanish. |
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