The city had been controlled by an entrenched commercial-civic elite that was mostly German American.

Searching for explanations, diplomats here say that the Western programs collided with Angola's entrenched political elite.

Threatened and frightened, the royal palace and an entrenched elite revoked the Constitution and banned all political parties.

Does Houellebecq, like Le Pen, suggest a revolt by France's angry masses against an entrenched liberal elite?

The Philippines is overwhelmingly a land of poor people governed by an entrenched elite.

In 1837, frustration over these entrenched elites reached boiling point.

In the face of this expectation of equality, the entrenched elite and longtime Christians who hoped to advance socially and politically erected formidable barriers.

But Nigerians deserve better than rigged elections that preserve the power and patronage of an entrenched elite.

Two separate rebellions, one in Upper and one in Lower Canada, fail to dislodge entrenched elites.

Q. Japan is a very traditional society with entrenched elites.