14 sentences with 'elite'
Example sentences and phrases with the word elite and other words derived from it.
• « Like the insulated, elite world of Washington, the ivory towers of academia are fertile ground for the arrogance of privileged brains. »
• « In 1990 it was discovered that the elite at Stanford University were charging taxpayers for expenses that had nothing to do with government-sponsored research. »
• « As warfare is depicted in the Iliad, battles consisted of the elite noble warriors of each side facing each other and fighting face to face, with the ranks of the poorer soldiers as support, but usually not participating in actual combat. »
• « Foreign trade was in the service of providing luxury goods to this elite social class, a class that was never politically united but shared a common culture of warrior kings and their armed retinues. »
• « For elite Greek women, social restrictions were severe: they were usually confined to the inner sanctums of homes, interacting only with family members or close female friends from families of the same social rank, and when they did go out in public they had to do so in the company of chaperones. »
• « There was never a time when it was socially acceptable for an elite woman to be alone in public in classical Athens. »
• « The only social position in which elite women had real and direct power was in the priesthoods of some of the Greek gods, where women could serve as priestesses. However, these were a very small minority. »
• « In the 5th century BC, some of Macedonia's largest towns grew large enough to be considered cities, and elite Macedonians strove to civilise their country in the style of the southern Greeks. »
• « Everywhere, the Greeks became a new elite class, establishing Greek laws and Greek buildings and services. »
• « Also, citizenship, which had been the basic unit of political currency in the ancient polis, became a mark of elite membership that could be earned in several cities at the same time. »
• « The sack of Corinth specifically also aroused great interest in Greek art among the Roman elite, spurring the development of Greco-Roman artistic traditions in Italy. »
• « One way for elite (wealthy) Romans to express their Romanitas was to finance the construction of temples, forums, arenas or practical public works such as roads and aqueducts. »
• « Likewise, elite Romans often paid for great games and contests with free food and drink, sometimes for entire cities. This practice was not just in the name of ostentation, but was an expression of loyalty to the Roman people and their shared Roman culture. »
• « Augustus transformed the Senate and the elite class into a truly civil service to manage the huge empire. »