The social elites sought the finest education for their daughters as education reflected class and could result in agreeable marriages.

In the "incremental" model, the political elite seeks to maintain the current rate of development and tries to defuse popular discontent through social programmes.

Stu's victory made the title one that poker's elite sought.

To growing public problems, elites sought private answers.

That idea he tracks from the days in 18th-century New York when an urban elite sought to define the advantages of city life.

Political elites seek expert knowledge and advice to reduce this technical uncertainty, on issues including:

Greece's transition was no different as the military, political elites and students sought to affirm their respective positions in society.

Not all provincials were pro-Rome, nor did all elites seek to be like the Roman upper classes.

The elite of the Veilleurs sought to evolve to a higher state of being.

Under conditions of underdevelopment the political elite seeks wealth through the direction of public resources by administrative action.