During this era the governing councils controlling Tunisia remained largely composed of a foreign elite who continued to conduct state business in the Turkish language.

Yet the rule remained one of a foreign elite.

In the first year competing against the domestic and foreign aged elite, Victory Tilly claimed many of Sweden's major events.

A mostly foreign ethnic Serb elite dominated over the rest, imposing a repression, unknown under previous Ottoman rulers.

Fifty years ago, when Mr. Rumsfeld came of age, it made sense for American strategists to focus on the opinion of foreign elites - government officials in particular.

The early battle for control of the new state was fought, to a great extent, among the various factions-Ecuadorian and foreign, military and civilian-of this elite.

Wanderers here will see sublime old villas with handsome palm tree gardens and wrought iron gates that housed the foreign and Chinese elite of 70 years ago.

Their traditional consultative role in the government was taken by the new foreign elite of administrators, most of whom had little respect for local tradition.

In Moscow, Werner attended the Karl Liebknecht School with other sons and daughters of the foreign Communist elite.

The Romans, like the Ptolemies, treated Egypt like their own private property, a land exploited for the benefit of a small foreign elite.