"elite" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The style stood in strong contrast to the French styles affected by many of the Spanish elite under the influence of the Enlightenment.
- They attacked and killed both Peninsular and American born Spanish elites.
- He remained in Madrid during nearly all of the Republican period, writing features about Parliament, which allowed him to mix with the Spanish political and cultural elite.
- When this dawned on the Spanish elite, they pressed the King to abdicate.
- Negros had become a rich province and "the local leaders were content, sharing even in many instances the social privileges of the Spanish elite."
- After decades of discrimination from Spanish elites, Catalan industrialists buried their dream of leading Spain.
- It was originally founded by the Jesuits in 1681 for the education of the Spanish elite.
- Many of the Spanish elite ordered small numbers of slaves to work as servants in their homes.
- For some reasons, never clearly established, he was persecuted by the Spanish elite in the island and jailed on various occasions.
- To keep power, the Spanish and criollo elite perpetuated the idea of "Spanish" being equivalent to "civilized".
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