"elite" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He questioned contracts and concessions approved under previous Tutsi governments, which threatened the economics of the powerful Tutsi elite and army.
- Belgian expatriates, Asian businessmen and many of the Tutsi elite have fled the city.
- The establishment of coffee plantations, and the resulting concentration of wealth in the hands of the Tutsi elite, provoked tensions between the two tribal groups.
- The Tutsi elite were defined by their exclusive ownership of land and cattle.
- Local merchants, many from the Tutsi elite, made fortunes charging wartime prices for basic goods.
- Classe was an admirer of the Tutsi elite, whom he considered natural rulers of the country.
- However, this resistance was, paradoxically, in large part led or inspired by disaffected members of the Tutsi elite.
- The Belgians left the Tutsi elite in control of Burundi, but gave way to the Hutu majority in Rwanda.
- He was referring to the repression by the Hutu majority of the once-powerful Tutsi elite.
- Hutu anger at the oppression was largely focused on the Tutsi elite rather than the distant colonial power.
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