"elite" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "Do-it-yourself" manuals were popular among the landowning elite because they offered, as Marcellus promises, a form of self-sufficiency and mastery.
- This party's ascent to power in 1963 signaled the end of power for the landowning elite.
- Society changed into an almost feudal relationship between landowning elites and bonded laborers.
- This marked the moment when the middle classes entered government, displacing the landowning elite.
- Detachments of the PMA were active throughout the country during the conflict, maintaining control over the rural populace and protecting the landowning elite.
- The landowning elite expected that they would continue to enjoy precedence, but the country's peasants were beginning to dispute the landed aristocracy's control.
- Whittington had long supplied the new king, Henry IV, as a prominent member of the landowning elite and so his business simply continued as before.
- Decree 900, passed in 1952, ordered the redistribution of fallow land on large estates, threatening the interests of the landowning elite.
- This new-found wealth enabled the Vellalas in general to morph into a dominant landowning elite with ritual and political control.
- Unfortunately, independence changed little for Guatemala's indigenous communities, who remained under the control of the church and the landowning elite.
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