Sentences with phrase «small elite»

A relatively small elite of 10 - 15 % of the population are better off than ever before.

An increasingly small elite is taking possession of the nation's land, enabling them to squeeze more and more from the landless.

Soon after, the nobles compound at Cuexcomate was abandoned, and a new, smaller elite compound was built on the north side of the plaza.

Zimbabwe has been sold off for pennies on the dollar, but when you concentrate that into a small elite it is still a massive amount of wealth for individuals.

Once aimed at a small elite with their blingy designs, luxury smartphones are being toned down as manufacturers look to broaden the appeal of their high - end devices.

While a small elite of corporate managers and knowledge workers would reap the benefits of the high - tech world economy, the American middle class would continue to shrink and the workplace become ever more stressful.

The past two decades of Chinese growth have disproportionately benefited a small elite that has become increasingly entrenched; the next stage must focus on liberal reforms to build social capital more broadly.

If you became part of his inner circle or some small elite group he was leading that's when the perverted practices and teaching came out.

An additional concern expressed by lay critics of the Roundtable project is that it would create a small elite of wealthy lay people and progressive activists falsely claiming to represent the millions of lay faithful.

In many traditional societies, religious language has tended to be confined to a small elite of professionals.

At the same time, sophisticated communication facilities are available to a small elite for their personal growth, education, and enrichment, through computer programs, data bases, specialized videocassettes, and a wide assortment of information services.

Moreover, society is also being divided into a new class structure as more sophisticated communication facilities are available only to a small elite for their personal growth, education and enrichment.

At the time, gender - neutral language usage was by no means the norm; to the contrary, the mandate marked an attempt by a small elite of scholars to normalize a change that they wanted to see in the English language by imposing that change on the Bible.

The oppressors, a small elite motivated by insatiable greed, exploit the labor of the masses in order to realize their egoistic desires.

It's not a small elite who decide the candidates, it's all the registered members, and joining is dirt cheap.

That consent is damaged when voting is disproportionately controlled by a small elite.

Now, in The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy (Simon & Schuster, # 18.99), Mount argues that power and wealth in Britain has been consolidated in the hands of a small elite and new ruling class.

Economically speaking, most societies are dominated by a small elite.

Canter and Siegel counter that the violent reaction to their message comes from a small elite that has had the Usenet to itself for years, and resents other people using it to make money.

But then again these fashion pieces are more for the people that can afford them and a small elite of fashion people.

The internet has also changed the rules of the game by allowing anyone to become an author and connect to a potentially worldwide audience, a privilege that in the past was only accessible to a small elite of established writers and media professionals.

It typically refers to a situation where you can not see in or get in, where there is a controlling instance that dictates in what manner business is being conducted and limits it to a small elite group.

You end up going to Bowdoin, a small elite college in Brunswick, Maine.

I want to feel like I'm in a small elite club of people who understand that value and importance of this item.

Stephen Deuchar, director of Tate Britain, denied the choices were a reaction to the competitions of recent years, which have been criticised for rewarding art that only a small elite of curators can appreciate.

The vast audience that his retrospective has attracted is sure to please Hockney, who has always been an advocate for his art being not for a small elite.

As I discussed in my last book, The Shock Doctrine, over the past four decades corporate interests have systematically exploited these various forms of crisis to ram through policies that enrich a small elite — by lifting regulations, cutting social spending, and forcing large - scale privatizations of the public sphere.

«This situation highlights the continued failure of Cambodia's international donors to use their leverage to hold the small elite surrounding the Prime Minister to account,» said George Boden, campaigner at Global Witness.

However, as we reported in September, even that small elite is now having difficulty in the job market, a development that has raised concerns about plans to double the number of bar - passers by 2012.

Instead it's ruled by a small elite that has all the power.