Elite example sentences

An event that mobilised nationalist feelings among the educated elite across Europe was the Greek war of independence.So while black people played an enormous amount of informal cricket on beaches, in back alleys and parks, club cricket till as late as the 1930s was dominated by white elites.Despite the exclusiveness of the white cricket elite in the West Indies, the game became hugely popular in the Caribbean.The white cricket elite in India offered no help to the enthusiastic Parsis.In the eyes of the ruling elites of this region, a unified Italy offered them the possibility of economic development and political dominance.These revolutions were led by the liberal-nationalists belonging to the educated middle-class elite, among whom were professors, schoolteachers, clerks and members of the commercial middle classes.The white cricket elite in India offered no help to the enthusiastic Parsis.This was apparent in the emergence of many distinct and shared traditions: in the realms of governance, the management of the economy, elite cultures, and language.Like many other wealthy and educated members of the Italian elite, he spoke French much better than he did Italian.In these colonies, cricket was established as a popular sport either by white settlers (as in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies and Kenya) or by local elites who wanted to copy the habits of their colonial masters, as in India.The old merchant elite of Calcutta patronised public forms of entertainment such as kabirlarai (poetry contests), musical soirees and dance performances.Cricket helped to confirm this self-image of the English elite by glorifying the amateur ideal, where cricket was played not for victory or profit, but for its own sake, in the spirit of fair play.