Ravaged by endemic elite discord since its founding, Pakistan desperately needs an elite reconciliation that includes all of the country s major stakeholders.

The Internet joins the elite of the world.

Third, a widening generation gap has spread to the ruling elites.

At the same time, he has become unable to control infighting among the elite.

The greater the distance between the language of elites and ordinary people, the greater the risk of revolt.

The association of elites with foreignness, tolerance, and metropolitan cities is nothing new.

Enlightenment ideas began to gain ground among some of the kingdom's elite and monarchy.

This complexity is lost not only on Western observers but also on Turkey s elite.

Indeed, among China s elite no foreign policy issue is more divisive.

Consider Russia s elites, who buy houses in London, ski in the Alps, and educate their children in Switzerland. They have too much to lose from a worsening political climate between Russia and the West.

As a result, he has produced a rupture between the two pillars of the revolutionary regime the clerical elite and military security structure.

Two events have sharply accelerated the collapse of confidence in Putin s regime, both among the elite and ordinary Russians.

Associated with this low level of consumption is widening inequality between the countryside and the cities, and between the political elites and the masses.

That has helped reinforce the Chinese elite s faith in the country s fusion of autocratic politics and state capitalism.

As a result, formal and informal links between the new Turkish political élite and the Arab world have been easier to forge.

India s Elites in Crisis

The clerical elite has gradually lost power to the military security groups, from whose ranks President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerged.

One fundamental difference between France and Britain is that most of the mainstream political elite in France has long been broadly pro European.

The university was restricted to the elite aristocracy.

First, it s tough enough for leaders within the Chinese Communist Party elite to agree on economic policy priorities.

By effectively enforcing property rights and implementing national policy, the Chinese Communist Party became the institutional mechanism that bridged the divide between the elites (the Party) and the masses.

On the whole, the elite are not sensitive to criticism.

The split divides those who are and are not concerned about the fate of Russian elites vast personal holdings in the West.

This dedication to dirigisme has spawned among the ruling elite a sense of entitlement and hostility to business.

Further, this elite's control of llama herds became a powerful control mechanism as llamas were essential for carrying goods between the civic centre and the periphery.

It is also a political conflict between elites and the deprived, between traditional leaders and the new generation contesting their authority, between leaders who arose from within their communities and an administration that has been appointed by the State in an effort to modernize administrative rule and to consolidate power.

Elite soldiers might be trained in secret locations.

The ruling elite are known to be torn by disputes and rivalries.

In my opinion, these people are much more wiser than, not only the political elite, even the intellectual elite, even opposition leaders including political parties.

The greatest skepticism about an Obama presidency lies among Indian strategic elite, who are focused on promoting India s economic and political interests in the wider world.

It is up to European citizens and elites to avoid the worst.

To some extent, the elites have themselves to blame.

Like all elites before them, they become firmly established and use all available means to keep it that way.

Ballot initiatives were created 100 years ago to empower ordinary citizens, but in recent decades the process has been captured by self serving elites.

Wouldn t Lugovoi s entrance into politics bring about the ideal solution to the problem of finding an heir for Putin? That search, after all, is threatening to divide the nation s elite.

Meanwhile, politics belongs to the elites.

But choosing educated elites is only part of the story.

Democracy has become a central target of complaints by the European elite.

Dealing with elite interests requires ingenuity.

Such an important role resulted in a major influence of the local elite.

Early meetings of the Congress contained a minority of Muslims, mostly from the elite.

Except in totalitarian regimes, a country s elite depends on a degree of popular acceptance, which is mostly derived from the belief that the elite is broadly fair in its dealings. Following the recent series of scandals, the average Indian does not believe this anymore.

Yet this seems to be the distinctive operating style of Kirchnerism, torn between an elite born and raised in Patagonia, a few close allies, and everybody else.

Playing a game of balance between Russia and the West allows the elite to remain in power, and to preserve the oligarchical economy in an otherwise harmful equilibrium of semi reform.

For Russia s elite, a restaurant bill cannot be too expensive, and one can never have enough bodyguards waiting out front for you.