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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'elite backgrounds' is correct and can be used in written English
It refers to individuals who come from prestigious or upper-class families with a long history of success and influence. An example of using this phrase in a sentence could be: "The university prides itself on attracting students from diverse backgrounds, including those from elite backgrounds who bring a unique perspective to the classroom."
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Every year more and more students of lower-class backgrounds received a university education, but the entrance examinations tended to limit admissions to the most desirable faculties (medicine and engineering) to students with elite backgrounds.
For all of the wealth Silicon Valley has produced, even since the recession, its businesses employ remarkably few people — about eight thousand at Facebook, for example — and those workers tend to come from elite backgrounds.
The elite backgrounds of founders is well-known, and underlined in Aileen Lee's analysis of unicorns.
Talented commoners should be considered for office as well as those from elite backgrounds (particularly kinsmen of the ruler).
Genetic engineering offers one of the most potential techniques for modification of many horticulturally important traits, which have been found impossible so far to incorporate in elite backgrounds via conventional breeding methods without affecting their phenotypic traits.
These students' underrepresentation in elite universities is especially troubling in the light of several recent studies showing that, once they're in, students from low-participation backgrounds (with comparable grades on entry) outperform their peers from elite backgrounds.
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However, the change of name could not disguise the fact that he was the product of an elite background.
The campaign pitted the Fujimori family's brand of rightwing populism against Kuczynski's elite background and stiff technocratic style.
A Boston Brahmin who has been a corporate lawyer, venture capitalist, energy company executive, corporate director and Reagan administration official, Mr. Monks has an elite background that might have made him a consummate corporate insider.
By introducing the "cockney trio" of photographers – Brian Duffy, David Bailey and Terence Donovan – and models such as Jean Shrimpton, Penelope Tree and Twiggy, it was Miller who really made Vogue truly meritocratic, says Muir. "She really grasped the Swinging 60s and the new classless society, and at that point you didn't have to be from an elite background to get your name in Vogue.
A Manhattan judge sentenced a plastic surgeon convicted of murder to 20 years to life in prison yesterday, saying that he used his elite background and medical knowledge in dismembering his wife, squeezing her body into a duffle bag and dumping it from an airplane.
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