Then, a toast.

Do you know this one?

Thank you. Now for a toast.

The elite doesn't just give way.

The modern sector is the abode of the elites.

I still wanna make a toast.

You're just in time for a toast.

Cheers! We'll spend the entire night toasting.

I'm buyin' the booze, so I make the toast.

Would a toast be a kind of wish?

I shall propose the toast, without wit, with all my heart.

And I'd like to drink this toast to you in my own house.

Why do political elites block reforms that would spur economic growth and development? Because growth and development would undermine their hold on political power.

But the post revolutionary elites are ideologically cynical and opportunistic.

It is the universal claim, that many Western Elites are making about their Political System!

You remember making a toast here to become a great person?

The crucial point is that America s conservative elites believe Brooks, Eberstadt, and Murray.

And both countries are experiencing an increase in popular suspicion toward traditional political elites.

Authoritarian clientelist regimes depend on the silent assent of their populations and the loyalty of their elites.

Gerry Adams criticizes the silence of the Mauritanian elites On the eve of Mauritania's 30th Independence commemoration.

Iraq s political elites have resisted Maliki s desire for a second term for two reasons.

There is also no guarantee that the previous elites will not be able to re constitute similar regimes.

And the important point to recognize is that even though these broadcasters were broadcasting something you would call second best, that competition was enough to break, at that time, this legal cartel over access to music.

Look at this beautiful wool, madam. Feel the pure virgin wool.

But, in the end, ordinary Germans have been proved right, and the elites have been proved wrong.

The lack of trust in political elites is linked to a suspicion, which is not entirely irrational, that elected governments have little authority.

As the surplus of food decreased, and thus the amount available to underpin their power, the control of the elites began to falter.

The United States led Coalition Provisional Authority empowered a new group of political elites who fundamentally distrusted one another and, more important, failed to coalesce around a shared vision for governing the country.

Italian elites are not the only ones in need of being shaken up.

They attack the old elites not to shake things up, but to take their power.

Because people couldn't read and couldn't understand what those elite was talking about.

Instead, the benefits of privatization and other initiatives went largely to political and business elites.

Does it consider Russia a powerful partner or a hostile neighbor? If France wants to take the lead on EU relations with Moscow, it must become far more sensitive to eastern and central European fears about Russia.

Instead, policy elites (and most economists) favor strengthening what is euphemistically called global governance.

This helps co opt the elite among the lower castes to the ruling coalition, and keeps the poor divided along caste lines.

Voters who support populist movements do so because they believe that current elites fail truly to represent them.

Authoritarian clientelist regimes depend on the silent assent of their populations and the loyalty of their elites. Unfortunately for Putin, when the former is called into question by popular protest, the latter can no longer be taken for granted.

The specter of revolution had forced Western elites to use the power of the state to redistribute wealth and nurture the growth of loyal middle classes.

Slogans such as the people demand social justice , all the people are the opposition and the people demand democracy were chanted throughout the evening.

As the rainfall decreased, many of the cities further away from Lake Titicaca began to tender less foodstuffs to the elites.

Following the defeat in World War I, influence of German speaking elites over Central and Eastern Europe was greatly limited.

And this Friday, I want you to pull out a really good bottle of wine, and I want you to toast these two people.

Just imagine a more virtuous Europe encountering a more decadent China, whose venal elites are starting to turn on each other?

Only these institutions are capable of preventing the elite capture and insider rents that are putting global prosperity at long term risk.

For French elites since World War II, alignment with Germany has been central to projecting French power and influence.