By richly awarding the elite, Lee minimized the scope for corruption.

Moreover, nationalism has spread from the streets into the elite.

Barriers to entry into the French political elite are exceptionally high.

That search, after all, is threatening to divide the nation s elite.

Abolitionists were viewed as effete and elite, eggheads and dilettantes.

Moreover, Turkey s economic and social transformation brought forth a new elite.

The bottom line is simple fewer and fewer clubs are making it into the European elite.

That it hasn't invested in politics and pleased the ruling elite?

The AKP has largely squandered the goodwill that first brought it to power on a wave of voter revulsion at the old political elite s rampant corruption.

So why not choose a man like Lugovoi who truly represents what that elite stands for?

The public either was unaware of any excesses, or deemed the ruling elite corrupt by definition.

Reliance on the traditional blockbuster model, which targets the elite, is proving unfeasible and short sighted.

the Khmer Rouge killed over a million people, and they focused and targeted the elites and the intellectuals, the artists, the dancers.

It has now created its own elite and shares the same political culture.

You must be able to draw a listening and cheering crowd to qualify for the elite.

This helps co opt the elite among the lower castes to the ruling coalition, and keeps the poor divided along caste lines.

Some in government think that a free media'' should only champion and praise the ruling elite.

Through business dealings, the Iraqi regime insinuated itself into the Jordanian elite, coloring our own political culture.

The Soviet demise encouraged US political elites to construct a unipolar view of America s global position and interest.

This guy is only trying to corrupt the to better gain means of control and gain more power, To say short he is a criminal.

Such incentives are targeted at foreign investors and the local elite, with the aim of stopping or even reversing capital flight.

Real damage is done when people lose confidence, not only in the elites, but in the system itself.

These jibes, paradoxically, go hand in hand with efforts to appeal to and rely upon those very same elites.

Britain ruthlessly created a subservient Iraqi state after WWI, backing Sunni elites to control the majority Shia population.

While globalization has helped to boost overall prosperity, it has been most beneficial for those who form the new global elite.

The obsession with power and prestige that galvanizes Russia's elite hardly matters at all.

If it can, then perhaps watching other countries suffer will help convince the local political elite to consent to adjustment.

The issue of sanctions also came up, of course. In connection with the events in Ferguson we believe it necessary to impose sanctions on the US political elite.

In literary terms, this conspiracy theory closely resembles The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , featuring secretive global elite with great power and wicked aims.

At the moment, administration insiders are trying to convince elite journalists that Bush did not deceive outsiders about Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program.

Nor has it brought peace to the oil rich Niger delta whose impoverished people resent exploitation of the resources of their territory for the enrichment of a corrupt elite.

Lately, he has begun to admit that the Malay first policies he has promoted since 1969 have failed to produce the skilled Malay elite essential to a modern knowledge economy.

The shame of Le Pen's newfound prominence may yet prove beneficial if it forces the mainstream political establishment to heed popular concerns and address the country's problems.

In fact, democracy demands a degree of showmanship and pizzazz politicians need to appeal to the mass of voters, and not just to an elite, which can afford to ignore hoi polloi.

Now, with Greece s voters having driven out their country s exhausted and corrupt elite in favor of a party that has vowed to end austerity, the backlash has arrived.

Dutch populists, such as Rita Verdonk or Geert Wilders, who is driven by a paranoid fear of Islamization, are putting the traditional political elites a combination of liberals, social democrats, and Christian democrats under severe pressure.

Khamenei s political standing is closely associated with the current nuclear policy, and he lacks the charisma and authority necessary to move the political and religious elite toward compromise.

Republican populists have long tried to depict their Democratic opponents, often with great success, as un American elitists, intellectuals, and the kind of guys who speak French in short, Europeans.

But a system of crony capitalism that enriches a tiny elite while the vast majority of the country's 50 million beleaguered citizens live in poverty and are bullied by bureaucrats cannot be sustained in the long run.

Khamenei s political standing is closely associated with the current nuclear policy, and he lacks the charisma and authority necessary to move the political and religious elite toward compromise.

Exasperated by Kim s refusal to ease international tensions, Chinese officials have made clear their refusal to protect and subsidize North Korea s elite if it continues to push the US toward confrontation.

American diplomacy, therefore, did nothing to oppose EDI, and even welcomed the possibility that it might induce Europe s political elites to support more military spending, reducing the burden on the US.

But what was different about that period, when propaganda on the Internet was directed at the intellectual elite, the media and so on but now it can be directed at the masses because they are already connected up to the Internet.

Fortunately, given the Union s attraction for most ordinary Ukrainians, there is still hope that simple realism will persuade Yanukovych and Ukraine s ruling elite to return to a path that would allow for the association agreement to be signed.

A further 1.4 million people are in need of assistance and some bloggers have been sharing links for organisations that are quietly doing good work in Haiti that does not line the pockets of multinational aid corporations, or continue to fatten the Port au Prince elite.