But we cannot have a professional elite which is beyond criticism.

At Yale and other top colleges, women are being groomed to take their place in an ever more diverse professional elite.

Neither the urban professional elites nor the common people, however, were attracted by this arrangement.

They belonged to or identified with the emerging business and professional elite, and were often members of the most exclusive clubs.

The recession in the New York region is disrupting the lives of the educated and the professional elite, too.

Under Italian administration, the Harti retained their position as the professional elite.

What happens to the left when its ideas can ignite professional élites, but leave too many of the people cold?

It has long been known as the home of many of Ashland's business and professional elite.

The one obvious danger would be in programmers, the professional elite, deciding to talk down to these audiences, giving them what they supposedly want.

By the late 11th century the professional elite began to break apart as a distinguishable status group aiming for civil service.