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elite English

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elite

If something is elite, it is special or exclusive.

elite

The elite is the best part of a group. Only the elite can enter this school. Elite is the size of letter in typewriting (12 per inch).

elite

a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status (= elect) selected as the best an elect circle of artists elite colleges

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Simple sentences

You are now among the elite.
Though he is no longer president, he still holds considerable sway among the political elite.
I don't want to belong to the elite at all. It's already enough for me to be the best.
Tom graduated from a very elite university.
On the whole, the elite are not sensitive to criticism.
The representatives of the elite continue to think according to the categories of the past.
Fight back against the oppression of the ruling elite.

Movie subtitles

We are in the right for we are ready to throw our nation's elite into the scale of history!
Come. Tonight would you be entertaining the chief of police. these Nazi party officials and elite guard officers. if you weren't forced to?
They take their place among the nation's elite.
Where the elite meet.
Never have I seen so much elite, all with their eyes on me, waiting for me to crack that little gnome on the noggin with a bottle.
These are the bosses of the camp, the elite.
New camp, expert guards, the elite.
Under these domes and under my orders the elite of the international scientific world is working.
The world elite has met here.
The world's elite of motor racing is now approaching the starting line on machines built for the highest speeds.
Now that you mention it, Countess I could use some elite troops like you on my side.
My relationships are with the Parisian elite.
The elite guard.
Not only poor farmers emigrate, but in search of a better future the intelligentsia too - the spiritual elite of the nation.
Hitler said to one of his elite guards. I forget how it goes.
Tonight would you be entertaining the chief of police. these Nazi party officials and elite guard officers. if you weren't forced to?
What a lovely, clever name. Where the elite meet.
The future elite has a sense of duty!
She's part of the Paris elite.
When I told you the Paris elite was a bit like a zoo.
You dig out the dossiers on the top professionals, the elite.
The elite SS-- animals!
Two of our panzer elite divisions, The 12th SS Panzer Divisions, and the 21st Panzer Division, as well as the 346th Infantry Division are moving west to reinforce our positions here.
Come on, Fran. Join the elite.
We need to develop our skills to an elite level.
We would be straying if we did not use these findings to render man won'thy of this science, which remains a privilege reserved to an elite.
We'll try to solve it after the show. Right now the elite of St. Alban are waiting for us.
Well, when you look for men to go into Maori country. you don't choose them from among the socially elite.
One of your elite, trying to land without wheels.
Limitless power, limitless wealth, and solar systems ruled by the elite.
We, gentlemen, are that elite, and we must take what is rightfully ours from the decadent weaklings that now hold it.
We believe he selects attractive girls. methodically builds their dependence on drugs. then sells them to an elite clientele around the world.
It is a very good statement that the elite is that part of society which feels responsible for the rest.

News and current affairs

What was once the dignified preserve of obviously elite currencies could become the site of messy political battles for elevated status.
But the revolution is not only for the elite; it also offers a realistic (non-utopian) promise of dramatically improved lives for many people around the entire globe - not in 100 years, but in the foreseeable future.
Nor is it clear that the split within the Iranian elite between revolutionary purists and those with a merchant-class mentality would lead to regime change any time soon.
The Party elite, quite understandably, does not find this reassuring.
Moreover, throughout NAFTA's lifetime income and wealth have been further concentrated within the elite sectors of US and Canadian society.
Instead, when Iraqi attack helicopters and elite troops began butchering their own people, coalition forces were ordered to stand down.
The socio-professional profile of the new elite is broader.
This new leadership elite is in many ways more cosmopolitan than its predecessors; their average level of education is higher; a few have foreign degrees.
Without a significant increase in opportunities for political participation, including genuinely competitive elections, the chasm between a predominantly young population and a ruling elite with a narrow generational base will widen.
Lee's premise, from which he never departed, was that, especially in a multi-ethnic society like Singapore, a meritocratic elite must impose social harmony from above.
By richly awarding the elite, Lee minimized the scope for corruption.
Yet, for the last six years or so, Russia has been in a kind of limbo, with no strategy, no goals, and no elite consensus on a vision for the future.
There is something unsettling about the global power elite jetting into an exclusive Swiss ski resort and telling the rest of the world to stop using fossil fuels.
One fundamental difference between France and Britain is that most of the mainstream political elite in France has long been broadly pro-European.
In literary terms, this conspiracy theory closely resembles The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, featuring secretive global elite with great power and wicked aims.
A tiny elite of Tutsi from the southern province of Bururi controlled all institutions, exploiting them to the fullest.
It must be distributed to the needy rather than favoring the elite - a tendency established in the past.
The international community must understand that the political benefits of not alienating the old elite while offering new opportunities to traditionally excluded groups outweigh the financial cost.
This tax-cutting frenzy comes, incredibly, after three decades of elite fiscal rule in the US that has favored the rich and powerful.
The resulting humiliation and blatant mistrust that Russia's elite has felt ever since has led them to their current policy of rearmament.
Not surprisingly, the political elite became self-absorbed and served only its own narrow interests.
This summer, with wildfires raging outside Moscow, the elite's isolation took on a menacing nature.
Indeed, today's elite cannot or will not solve the problem.
But there should be no doubt that he is a man of the regime - a realist and moderate member of the Islamic Republic's political elite - not a representative of the opposition.
Such incentives are targeted at foreign investors and the local elite, with the aim of stopping or even reversing capital flight.
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.

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