11.   Under conditions of underdevelopment the political elite seeks wealth through the direction of public resources by administrative action.

12.   In one interesting project, Geyikdagi, examined the attitudes of political elites in the Middle East to the TNCs.

13.   Until now he had never had to court the approval of the political elite, because his monopoly of legitimacy had made him irreplaceable.

14.   Party rivalry was so intense in England under the later Stuarts because it affected not just the political elite at the centre, but cut deep into society.

15.   There is also a much closer interconnection than in Britain between political elites and administrative elites within the state.

16.   Amid this poverty, the men in the Kremlin continue parading as a political elite, clinging to power and skimming money from the budget.

17.   And I would say that today the political elite is still persecuting Gorbachev, and creating a kind of information blackout against Gorbachev, and mistreating him.

18.   Beyond the monuments and glamorous lifestyles of the political elite exists another Washington that tourists never see.

19.   A highly conservative political elite enforces laws that restrict free expression and other civil rights.

20.   Across Europe, populists are tilting against political elites whose cozy consensus is thought to have muffled the voices of ordinary people.