1.   Bankers and the new elite were threatened by bankruptcy.

2.   He wanted to cover himself with glory, and what better way than getting accepted by this new elite.

3.   Imperial governments created a new elite of natives and invested them with the power of their language of administration and justice.

4.   The drug mafia have become a new economic elite, beyond government control.

5.   Your Internet wanderings will reveal that cyber savers are the new elite, benefiting from superior rates.

6.   Already when I was in college, there were hints of a new elite, of non-status-seeking pursued with unimaginable rigor.

7.   After a two-month train ride across Siberia, which he took to reacquaint himself with ordinary Russians, he received little attention from the new Russian elite.

8.   But most Iraqis, the new booming elite apart, are still barely above survival level.

9.   Formerly known as Yuppies, a new elite of highly paid, high-tech strivers might be pulling away from the rest of America.

10.   Four Americans were among the new elite.