Clearly, the genteel elite would lose its cultural authority as Father loses his authority within his own household.

What happens when an elite loses its collective ability to understand the basis of the technology it controls?

Most important, however, were the land reform programs which saw the traditional landed elites of Iran lose much of their influence and power.

While the conspirators of the Military Committee were all young, the sitting regime had been slowly disintegrating and the traditional elite had lost effective political power.

The Romanised elite lost whatever residual control they still retained over the land and the people who worked it.

As a result, trading patterns shifted, and the old elites lost their economic and social status.

When elites - of politics, church and business - lose their sway, the resulting vacuum is traditionally filled by nationalism and racism.

After Gallienus banned senators from army commands in the mid-3rd century, the senatorial elite lost all experience of-and interest in-military life.

The nation's thinking elite has lost its self-confidence, wondering whether Paris has become a city of museums, mired in its glorious past, provincial.

The institutions and the elite running the European Union have lost the trust of a number of citizens.