Sentence examples for a tiny class of from inspiring English sources

While such countries have long been accustomed to vast disparities between a tiny class of the wealthy elite and the impoverished masses, the new elite shares some characteristics with counterparts in the United States.

But if other countries protect their oil riches by keeping them under the control of national oil companies, Russia, in embracing some Western economic values, privatized most of its industry, creating a tiny class of powerful oilmen, with Mr. Khodorkovsky at its pinnacle.

Systemic greed favors a tiny class of people who concentrate more and more capital, as well as more and more control over our lives.

The idea is to redirect capital investment away from short-term speculative ventures which are high-risk, high-debt and if profitable only of value to a tiny class of investors, into "long-term productive low-emission assets and services" of benefit to the wider public, as well as generating longer-term returns.

"This is my favorite class to teach out of all of them here," said our instructor, a genial Iowa native named Beite Cook, as our tiny class of five convened early Friday morning.

Though most of the tiny class of Internet users in Cuba are prohibited access to the web (they get only E-mail, FTP, Telnet, and gopher), a small band of students are using E-mail to get to web pages.

Far from an impartial governance institution, today's stock market has been hijacked by a tiny officer class of top executives of large corporations and bankers, whose interests it reflects and reinforces.

As the founder of a successful offshore oil-rig engineering company, Mr. Khade is part of a tiny but growing class of millionaires from the Dalit population, the 200 million so-called untouchables who occupy the very lowest rung in Hinduism's social hierarchy.

Ron Paul and Rick Santorum have the courage of their nutty convictions, and even Rick Perry bowed out with a tiny touch of class.

Andrew Stuart Fastow grew up in New Providence, N.J., a tiny middle-class suburb of New York where he went to school with the children of scientists from Bell Laboratories.

I know of very few independent schools that could survive on the tiny class sizes that lots of people seem to think they all have.