Sentence examples for clique of countries from inspiring English sources

In 1949, Gray founded the Women's Track Racing Association (WTRA), later renamed the Women's Cycle Racing Association (WCRA); the fight to get women's events included in the world championships lasted 12 years, and it happened in the face of opposition from most of the small clique of countries that ruled what was then a parochial, largely European sport.

Nonetheless, analysis of network evolution remains a route to understanding system function (e.g. analysis of changes in Eurovision voting patterns successfully identified unofficial cliques of countries 98).

This implies that individual network changes (particular genetic changes in a cell, cf. switches among cliques of countries voting for each other in the Eurovision analogy) may be very difficult to attribute to specific causes and of limited significance in themselves.

The I.M.F. was created in 1944 to stabilize the economies of what was then a cozy clique of advanced capitalist countries dependent on America.

However, as is well known, the President of Iran wields little actual power; it is the Supreme Leader, the unelected Ali Khamenei and his clique of "experts," who rule the country.

But Brexit isn't the answer, because it would only empower a (different) small clique of oligarchs to bleed the country dry as they're cheered on by a legion of frothing proto-fascists.

The fate of the station is symptomatic of a country where a clique of political, financial and security interests has trampled on anything in its way.

But the easiest route to the top is to be born into the clique of families that have controlled the country for generations, including under a half-century of U.S. colonialism.

The small clique of trusted Musharraf aides who built the country's nuclear security system, but no longer have a patron?

How can you say it's changed if you've still got the same clique of elites that have gone to the same schools ruling the country?

A tiny clique of Tutsi officers clung to power by force.In the 1990s, both countries collapsed into civil war.