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Getting perfect grades and attending an elite college was one of the few ways up I could see.

A degree from a western university has long been a priority for any would-be member of the Kenyan elite.

Thus Nicolas Sarkozy a few years ago, when crafting the image of a crusading politician ready to take aim at France's elite.

Today he said the "elite" original under false original.

Of course, if you make this point to one of the elite economists in Washington, they would scoff and deny the charge. Why?

It was a jolt to most foreign observers and the Nepali elite when Maoist insurgents won the most seats in an election a year ago.

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Public opinion, however, may be less hostile than the political elite. NATO seems to be little known and little understood.

She arranged for him to work with a professor who got him ready for admission to the elite conservatory the next summer.

The Elite need a steady supply of organs from the Peasants, But they have to be subtle, so they want you to sign up for it.

Also, with this update, they've added a new skin to give SEO Elite a more professional feel to it, and I really like this new version.

For instance, there are those among the power elite who are not who they seem to be, despite a normal appearance.

With some fast networking among the Lahore elite, Ms. Chiu found a new ally in a patron of the arts, Nusrat Jamil, who opened doors to Mr.

The offensive on Zawiya is thought to be spearheaded by an elite unit led and named after one of Gadhafi's sons, Khamis.

As then, a large part of the elite has realised that the system is ineffective and is no longer willing to defend it.

The elite like to think of themselves as belonging to a meritocracy, but that's true only up to a point.

Because that's the lingra franca of the elite--of business, and of government, and all that sort of thing.

The result of all this, as our special report this week shows, is the rise of a global elite.

It has evolved into a self-serving elite; conspicuously, it has no base among the masses.

This data gathering and analysis now seems to be an accepted, if not expected, part of modern elite sports programmes.

Now that a new Asian elite can pay the earth for it, a new international poaching mafia is scouring the planet to satisfy that demand.

Once upon a time America was a middle-class nation, in which the super-elite's income was no big deal.

Bosh hinted that he opted to join the Heat to assure himself of at least one elite teammate, with the hope of two.

You are not sophisticated enough to understand the nuances we elite people have in our sense of humor.

Since women do as well on these measures as men, the student body of an elite educational institution is usually about 50 percent female.

Things may be even worse at the elite level, he said, where science is encouraged in the abstract, without a grasp of the scientific method.

You are the elite of the German Army. For you, combat shall be fulfillment. You shall seek it out and train yourself to stand any test.

Like the president-elect, Emanuel is a Chicago native with a strong connection to the city's political elite.

It felt as if I had joined the elite group that lives by different rules to ordinary folk.

Like an elite division with a bright flag, spring beauties up as long prayerful wishes.

"A More Perfect Heaven" does a good job of giving the flavour of life in Reformation-era Europe, at least among its intellectual elite.

You've been selected to be part of an elite group to help test Hellgate: London, the highly-anticipated Action-RPG from Flagship Studios!

Yet I can't help concluding that the upper and upper-middle or "elite" social classes seem to be conspicuously absent.

The existence of a small, inexpensive, but elite bureaucracy staffed by the best managerial talent available in the system.

The liberal, westward-looking part of the Russian elite wants to see Mr Medvedev as a beacon of the post-Putin thaw.

Forty years ago they turned against a leftish elite trying to boss them around; now they have had to endure a right-wing version.

His research ought to have secured him a place in academia's elite.

The court is one of the few institutions in which people have to do some elite thinking.

And I believed that the Brussels-based elite was a "new class" that had confused its own interests with those of the continent of Europe.

Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her.

If do not feel close to stretch tight, elliptically elite fluid, latex, cream also just as well.

As you rise in school, you see that to get into an elite university, you need to ace the exams given at the end of your senior year.

But we always give a dog a look at a track if it has not been there before, unless that dog is a brilliant beginner like Elite Blue Size.

Fatah then won backing from the United States to turn the presidential guard into an elite force to counter that of Hamas.

It's appalling to discover that the berets for one of our elite military units were to be manufactured abroad.

Earlier this year, Chatham House, a think-tank, commissioned twin polls of the general public and a group of "elite opinion formers" .

However, while it may have been a Party-elite decision to begin marketization, market imperatives quickly became uncontrollable.

All this is to one purpose: to make life comfortable for the privileged elite that goes by the name of the "Olympic family" .

A private telephone was such a rarified, elite device that the telephone book was also considered a state secret.

Outside analysts have little to go on since the North Korean elite have never been seen to face such a test.

It was known, however, that this cadre was an elite special operations unit within the Emperor's Royal Guard.

Equality in that country seems to be going into reverse. Reason: rise of an elite group enjoying a way of life denied by the masses.

The Soviet elite did not own property in London, nor did they aspire to send their children to British public schools.

However hypocritical it may be, this style of elite-bashing politics has had a remarkable track record since at least the Vietnam war.

Gets to issues of framing and elite discourse that we'll take up in the next section of the course.

But if you were an elite person in any city, even in Palestine's time, you were expected to be able to speak Greek.

Kevin Martin: If he was just a mite tougher, he'd be a truly elite player.

Even at China's most elite schools, many complain that their curriculum is all about rote learning, with little creativity.

"We aim to be the elite among the domestic brands, " Wang Dazong, BAIC president, said in an interview with the Financial Times.

But much is still up in the air in Iraq and Mr Shahristani's ambitions have often been foiled by disagreements within Baghdad's power elite.

Seems to have found his passion for the game again, and with that, has elevated himself into elite status amongst his peers.

Indeed, the book gives a strong sense of the confidence of the technocratic elite in India's performance and prospects.

Readers, would you steer your kids away from an elite school in favor of a state school, even if you could afford the former?

Ms Lagarde did not clamber into the French elite by the narrow, winding, stairs of the "grande ecoles" or tribal, party allegiance.

"It may have been damaged with some of the elite but people still understand that America stands for freedom, " he said.

had a more extensive network of powerful friends in the capital's political and media elite than almost any other foreign leader.

Luxury retailers in the main centres have also been trying to find ways of tapping the emerging business elite in smaller cities.

Gu, for his part, says the academy is only part of his extra studies outside of his elite Shanghai high school.

The Palace Museum said the hall "cannot and will never become a luxurious private club for the global elite and wealthy" .

The result of these changes is that Amherst has a much higher share of low-income students than almost any other elite college.

JUST a few decades ago, students at universities outside their home countries formed a tiny elite.

That's more important than adhering to a book of law that uses a foreign language understood by an elite minority in a country.

GE spends $1 billion a year on training, much of it on its elite management college in Crotonville.

All of these innovations are the result of corporate or government initiatives overseen by the elite.

And so I worry that our governing elite, which just isn't all that into the unemployed, will allow the jobs slump to go on and on and on.

Unlike most of the ruling elite, he did not serve in the KGB, which may make him less prone to paranoia and conspiracy theories.

it also gives it a seat at the elite club of nations that governs the use of the world's most powerful technology.

This was on the scale of a dramatic human documentary story of an elite restaurant owner who had started out as a poor delivery boy.

Now, this is an elite audience, and I would therefore expect about 10 percent of you to be religious.

Set up a few months, the business market has covered national market, a strong marketing and e-business elite elite.

Moscow may also be checked by the desire of its economic elite to remain on the path to integration with the rest of the world.

It continued to be an elite fighter craft assigned only to certain squadrons.

From there it spread to other elite universities, and it only opened up to the general population last September.

Trade up the Hudson river was controlled by an aristocratic elite with pretensions to secure a steamboat monopoly.

Amongst all the Hollywood elite these days, Angelina is consistently referred to as the most beautiful.

A professional manager will have to read books available on management if he intends to be elite.

Much of the country's $400 billion in oil revenues earned during its time in office has ended up in the hands of a small elite.

Get ready to Kick your bad-guy butt now and to be the elite of Ninja!

Today, Buick is one of China's leading luxury-car brands and a status symbol for the young, upwardly mobile business elite.

The public was to have their resentment over rumored bunkers for the elite deflected by rumors that these bunkers were being blown up.

Dubai's ruling elite insists it now places "sustainability" at the heart of its plans for existing and future projects.

Then the scene of great change in high school, students from all over the city, the elite cluster.

"Elite Hollywood culture is protecting one of its own, " said Alexander Riley, a professor of sociology at Bucknell University.

"Values voters" can never produce a viable governing coalition without the help of the business elite.

The country's elite still want it to be seen as a progressive, democratic country and a serious diplomatic actor.

Mr. Gu said that the academy is only one part of his extra studies outside of his elite Shanghai high school.

It would far prefer to strike out in a new elite monetary grouping, probably including the Netherlands, Austria and France.

The Earth Alliance sent its elite troops infiltrated the fortress, ready to launch a surprise attack.

Many Asian Americans come from an educated elite in their native countries. Their children seem to do especially well.

Take a look at our allies sales of insurance companies elite, which is not hard in this industry in pursuit of at least 5 years or more!

His labor efficiency was very high. So he was one of the elite in the electronics field.

Mr Hogan-Howe subsequently served as one of Her Majesty's chief inspectors of constabulary, an elite group of overseers.

White-collar and white-collar workers also have high status, the highest is often called the " King" -- white-collar, backbone, elite.

Tax laws persuaded some of the global elite to spend at least part of the year in Britain.

With its trademark mix of politics, world events, and arts and letters, The New Yorker has come to be synonymous with the culturally elite.

Haas already has a reputation for producing a different sort of MBA from other elite schools', Mr Lyons claims.

the Confucianism ethics in the Early Qin period was an elite ethics that had the problem of generalization.

elite ministers and court officials, is the monarch must be something with which to plan into account degree of people.

Found in soups these days rather than in the sea, the high value of sharks fin have made it savory delicacy and a symbol of elite status.

Fundamental to that shift has been a steady improvement in the educational quality of non-elite schools.

Secondly, to the point of talent-training, the elite-training should be coexisted with universal training.

He was accused of stealing the pictures while Chen's computer was being repaired at Elite Multimedia Limited, where Sze was an employee.

Fortunately, a brave soldier, led by the elite troops, launched Return of the Jedi in preparation for the eradication of these bio-terror.

So it was the bad judgment of the elite, not the greediness of the common man, that caused America's deficit.

Will the elite try to blame the UFOs as the cause of these catastrophes (using a stooge of course)?

Due to the different survival contexts, this sense of the elite in different stages of fictions shows a dynamic rheological.

We are transitioning from a world in which a small elite runs everything to a world in which everyone needs to be a player.

Even with a much lower population than today's, manufactured goods in the land-based economy were the preserve of the elite.

in Russia, the weakness of the social security system fits badly with the enrichment of the elite, just as in Algeria shaken by riots.

A whopping 88% of the elite cited Iraq as one of the main factors driving anti-Americanism, as did 71% of the general public.

If someone tells you that this stinky little infant will command those elite troops someday, it might sound ridiculous.

The company gathered from all over the world-class elite and industry managers.

Public Opinion, or the British Public - this usually means the opinions of a small elite of journalists writing for the tabloid press.

The real estate boom has been a driver of inequality and makes the country very vulnerable to its wealthiest elite.

But the elite brigades commanded by Gaddafi's sons appeared to have been ready.

The fashion shows used to be such an elite situation, only for editors and very special buyers.

Palpatine installed his own elite guard, the red-robed Royal Guardsmen, for the protection of his office.

About that erosion: there has been a flurry of reporting recently about threats to the dominance of America's elite universities.

Impetuous and hot blooded gentry, armed with pikes and excellent armour, this elite unit is one of the best pike units available.

Nor did every member of the intellectual elite who graced the board that evening go down in history.

The self centered, the power hungry, the elite desperate to continue their grip, are trying to position for the future.

DEFENDING the French language from the creeping invasion of English has long been a favourite pastime of France's elite.

But The Carnal Prayer Mat was published at a time when the ruling elite's attitudes to sex and pornography were beginning to change.

But I questioned the idea that more and more professionalism was the only solution when elite sport had already become so formulaic.

But rather than concentrating resources in a small number of elite universities, the aim should be a world-class HE system.

He may be The Agency's best asset, but that's not to say that he's up against some elite competition.

Fragments remained as Indonesia and the Pacific islands, and a few survivors reached India, where they became the elite Brahman caste.

It is also worth noting that this figure does not take into account the millions spent on elite sporting facilities.

This road is not just a theoretical design in the orient, but a result which has been constantly proved by the elite.

With a huge worldwide television audience tuning in and the Hollywood elite in attendance, the ballot process requires complete secrecy.

However, after losses to Antonio Margarito and now Miguel Cotto, he seems to destined to fall short of elite status.

MILTON FRIEDMAN: The intellectual elite, as it were, were on the side of Allende, not on the side of Pinochet.

But we also know that much of what Karzai says may also be the fantasies he uses to justify the growing power of the small elite around him.

On the third Wednesday of every month, the nine members of an elite Wall Street society gather in Midtown Manhattan.

Most of the show was about what are now relatively well-known technologies, at least to the elite group of XML developers who still attend.

Mr. Chui is a member of Macau's business elite Cheap Rappelz Rupees , and could face heavy scrutiny from Beijing, at least initially.

As a source of good writing, the country benefits from a highly educated elite and a dangerously dislocated society.

School dropouts will have to cope with a life of cash-strapped insecurity. But the graduate elite will have the world at its feet.

Kyle Katarn was an elite Rebel agent entrusted with some of the most crucial missions of the Rebel Alliance.

In the elite special forces you to go there to do away with a criminal group.

If you desire to be in the very elite group of people who actually "get better, " there's one thing that you have to do.

The creditors have the money and therefore the ear of the political elite; the borrowers tend to have the votes.

You portrayed an elite attorney very realistically . Was that ever your childhood dream?

Indeed, from information released so far, none of the alleged spies worked for the government, though some moved in elite circles.

Once elections were won, the issues that fired up the base almost always took a back seat to the economic concerns of the elite.

Some of the cash earmarked for elite universities is being used to lure scholars back to the motherland.

Today's ink art is no longer the ivory tower of the elite, but instead is closely related to the minutiae of our everyday life.

Last season, City were heavily tipped to make it into Europe's elite competition but were edged out of fourth place by Tottenham.

Professional gamers in Korea can train for up to 12 hours a day in hopes of reaching an elite standing held by a hardworking few.

Boya hotel management group is by an experienced and professional team of domestic and overseas elite abilities are composed.

She was an elite marathon runner for many years; in 1987, she set the fastest time for women over 40 in the marathon in the United States.

Its strategy for fostering science by encouraging only the elite is about to be severely tested.

A large man with working-class Manchester roots, he does not exude the aura of any globetrotting elite.

Balanlar was one of the elite Dreadlords before the Burning Legion fell.

A graduate of celebrated university does not always make an elite employee.

Of course, there are exceptions: I've known elite cyclists who have awful diets and party late into the night and win races the next day.

It was designed to slowly drain the massive wealth of the American people and transfer it to the elite international bankers.

Nor does it follow from an elite conspiracy to impose a strong Europe on an unwilling public, as British tabloids crow.

With luck, Thailand's political elite has tired of its internecine strife, and normal parliamentary politics are about to resume.

Kurt squeezed off a shot, and the round tore through one Elite's open helmet, emerging out the back in a spray of blue.

This requires working out the typical "biosignatures" of elite sportsmen as a group, or indeed of each individual, as a baseline.

The Company in good faith-based, with rich experience in foreign trade of the elite teams of experts and pest control teams.

The high-speed rail system is mostly a middle-class concern, because China's new elite are the only ones who can afford the tickets.

But the lingering suspicion remains that the country's old communist elite and their children have morphed into a new nomenklatura.

A total of six have children, is all Sharpy's elite, not jealous in order to arrest its next and future generations are also numerous.

In the company of a department basketball team captain, was in 2008's elite Cup basketball championship.

Although Mr Medvedev's article was dismissed by critics as a mere simulation of action, it inspired lively debate among the elite.

"Several elite compounds have private train stations, " he said.

The article does not discuss the interesting policy issues presented by the disproportionate rate of exit of elite women from the workforce.

What may look like an ordinary town in New Mexico, is actually an elite training ground for US emergency services.

The elite Golani is an infantry brigade that was formed in 1948 and is one of the most highly decorated units in the Israeli army.

Mr Lacalle, in contrast, is a scion of one of the country's most prominent political families and a member of the country's political elite.

The bank has key allies among the city's elite.

Now, in a rare TV interview, she's hinted that she'd consider joining another elite group: female vice presidential hopefuls.

Steven created the first digital character to be sponsored by a major modeling agency (Elite), back in 1999.

Culture is no longer limited to the elite culture, upper field but to a path of mass culture.

The company has pooled a number of elite training and pragmatic, and to the stability of the team staff.

What we do as an elite and as a country in the next couple of years will be very decisive.

Brazil's elite thinks peacekeeping is part of the price you have to pay to be among the nations who make the rules.

One other way their new height is benefiting the Thunder: They are suddenly acting like an elite offensive rebounding team.

Mohammed bin Laden was a construction tycoon in Saudi Arabia and a part of the country's elite.

He said that "a lot of elite Northeast establishment liberals" viewed him as someone "who belongs in the second tier and not the top tier. "

The Company was advised by the elite from all walks of life, they have profound knowledge and rich experience in shopping malls.

Such is not the case in societies where income, education, and opportunity are concentrated in a tiny elite.

In Salinger's 1951 book, the character runs away from an elite prep school and spends a few days roaming around New York City.

Yale, set up in 1907, is one of the most elite universities in the US.

And the drive for a single European currency was the ultimate top-down project, an elite vision imposed on highly reluctant voters.

These well trained and elite troops are well equipped with plate armour and lances, making them a fearsome addition to any Polish army.

And I am determined to be an elite in international trading as well as logistics industry .

First of all, the Sun Yat-sen University is an elite university for decades, it is a national first-class university.

Yet a recent ZetaTalk on this issue has brought to light the plans of the elite, and others who simply want to be in the right crowd.

These two elite schools, which produce 500 or so French graduates a year, dominate the boards of France's biggest companies.

Mr Shibata likes to put the new Nomura into an elite category of standalone investment banks alongside Lazard and Greenhill.

Ambitious young Italians are quitting their country in droves, leaving power in the hands of an elderly and out-of-touch elite.

Such global recognition has made him an elite advertising brand and a top fashion icon.

A survey released this week bolstered the argument that the luster of private elite colleges might be fading.

China's leadership is terrified by the prospect of social unrest from rising joblessness, particularly among the urban elite.

In the course of many years of development and accumulated a lot of resources, with the elite sales team and strong marketing capability.

China's elite, in government and business, are deeply concerned that their companies remain unable to create truly innovative products.

Never again to be the pawns of the Evil Elite who have plundered the Earth and made slaves of mankind.

He was an academic high-flyer and got into Seoul's elite Korea University, where he showed his political flair by heading the student union.

Thailand's foreign friends should make clear to the Thai elite that toppling elected governments would be a step backwards.

And less than 5 percent of students at elite colleges come from the bottom quartile of family income.

Teams of doctors from elite foreign medical schools are tending to the injured, ensuring their wounds do not get infected.

The long bar of the Shanghai Club, once the watering hole of the city's elite, is also to reopen next year, now managed by Waldorf Astoria.

GRIGORY Y*LINSKY: In Eastern Europe, the real democratic revolution happened. it was a real replacement of the political elite.

For elite students, it is not the choice between Yale and jail. There are hundreds of schools lining up to take Ivy League rejectees.

If Al Gore and John Kerry represent one of the characteristic products of an elite education, George W.

It was the King's Courts that protected non-elite groups from depredations by the local aristocracy.

Only the healthiest citizens and those with an untarnished political record are allowed to live in Pyongyang, a "city of the elite" .

Bordeaux is unusual in that for the elite 5% of its wineries, futures contracts are exchanged while a vintage is still in barrels.

English-style afternoon tea is not tea and refreshments itself attractive, but the British elite lifestyles.

The company is formed by a professional technical elite team rich in experiences in the LED industry.

IN TRUCKS, boats and buses, protesters streamed into Bangkok for a non-stop rally that was billed as a "people's war against the elite" .

Loyal and disciplined, this elite heavy cavalry unit accompanies the general wherever he goes on the battlefield.

We are tired of 20 years of elite preaching, we have enough of a market economy sanctity of life for our arranged.

Massive disorder is one of the greatest risks facing China's governing elite.

The prevailing orthodoxy among the nation's elite holds that increased government spending is the right medicine for what ails the economy.

Jinxuan was an elite variety that came from Taiwan and was suitable to make oolong tea.

He is not widely known by the American public except for the elite circle in Washington D. C. and the state of Utah.

"CFA Sail" elite club is established by a group of caring people, who are willing to help CFA candidates solve encountered problems.

My biggest concern with the Rockets' current roster is the lack of elite rebounders in the front court.

CastaDiva is a young, design-minded hotel in an old Italian mansion that once played host to Italy's fashionable elite.

The very best Libyan tanks - the T72s are likely to be with the elite 32nd Brigade led by one of Colonel Gaddafi's sons.

Cott made headlines before the Elite competition with the help of her agents, who pitched her Cinderella story to the local press.

Tens of millions of the rich countries of the elite circle for commercial elite of high-quality way of life recommended by a unique circle.

Stopped being able to sign very elite players really cheaply due to their asking price wrapping and going negative.

It is not enough to lobby the UN or the 'international community' or the consciences of the fashionable thinkers of the global elite.

The business elite and the military backs Pad, but the government enjoys widespread support among the poor, particularly in the countryside.

What he and much of the Ukrainian elite crave is political recognition, visa-free travel and access to Western bank accounts and property.

That allows elite airmen to essentially wear their gear like a scaffold, a concept the Air Force calls a "Human Chassis. "

One is apt to overlook the general environment behind the event. It is the environment we created that has produced our elite.

As long ago as 1996, U. S. officials noted that such unrestrained behavior could fuel a backlash against the Saudi elite.

The reporters and pundits are paid millions to say whatever furthers the causes of this elite class.

The havoc caused by Madoff and a few of the lesser offenders left an indelible mark on the minds of the power elite.

An elite team of ARC troopers destroyed the facility, but the demands of the war prevented an occupational force from staying on Felucia.

But frankly, he's bench-ridden far too often to be considered an elite talent -- Bynum has missed 160 games over his six-year career.

User can only download the full resolution original graphics uploaded if they pay to upgrade to Premium, Elite or Professional account.

Yet like Katyn, which eliminated the flower of the pre-war Polish elite, the plane crash also seems like a decapitation of Polish society.

Forcing the elite to dress modestly suggested that power and place were no longer to be marked by yards of lace and frills.