"elite" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Also taking advantage of the situation, the rural political elite amassed fortunes in land and rural-based enterprises.
- The result was the growth of a new, land-based, rural elite that replaced many formerly entrenched wealthy peasants (in Bengali, jotedars).
- The latter's administration distributed more than 266,000 hectares of land to 175,000 landless farmers, including land owned by the traditional rural elite.
- The latter were especially controversial, since they coincided with the forced collectivization and the murderous campaign targeting the rural elites.
- Despite its defense of the status quo, especially the interests of rural elites, the Sangkum was not an exclusively right-wing organization.
- But by Bihar's standards they are the rural elite.
- Tenant farmers in southern Ethiopia, where the average tenancy was as high as 55% and rural elites exploited farmers, welcomed the land reform.
- At the top there were the rural elite, known as the "mansion people" in western Massachusetts: magistrates, merchants, ministers and militia officers.
- "The rural elite is interested in maintaining the status quo, and that's it."
- This created a growing fear among both rural and urban elites that emancipated slaves would acquire the property necessary to secure the right to vote.
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