Sentence examples for elite standing from inspiring English sources

He also, unusually in China's opaque political system, lobbied more or less openly for elevation to the pinnacle of party power, the Politburo's elite standing committee.

"The Court is unprepared to conclude that C.I.S. abused its discretion, or otherwise erred, in requiring more elite standing before a petitioner can be deemed to be at 'the very top of the field of endeavor,' " Engelmayer wrote.

Through efforts like the campaign against migrant detentions, Mr. He said, many legal experts hope to make the People's Congress and its elite standing committee more active and effective.

But if the Jets were filled with jubilation over their franchise-best 4-0 stand and their elite standing as one of only three undefeated teams remaining in the National Football League, there was one player in the Jets' locker room yesterday who was noticeably not smiling.

Indeed, the Ivy League was formed as an athletic conference in 1956 because the eight presidents of those universities -- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn and Columbia -- felt there needed to be a standard for students who participated in intercollegiate sports at those schools that was in keeping with their elite standing in the academic universe.

Law's elite standing, hiring new faculty and spearheading successful fund-raising drives.

There are no elite teams standing between the Knicks and an eventual conference finals showdown with the Miami Heat.

The Financial Times (which belongs to Pearson, part-owner of this newspaper) reported an impossible-to-refute account that Zhou Yongkang, a member of the elite Politburo standing committee, had been privately stripped of his powers for lobbying too forcefully on behalf of Mr Bo.

The elite of the standing army were the 10,000 "immortals," composed of Persians and Medes, 1,000 of whom were the personal guard of the king.

You may or may not agree, but take a listen if you have a few minutes to spare.Mr Marr (a former Bagehot, many years ago, in the interests of full disclosure) knows more than most about the London power elite, having a standing invitation to any of their gatherings as the BBC's star interviewer.

One China expert likens Bo to Newt Gingrich: He's a charismatic, relentlessly ambitious man whom everyone else in the leadership wanted to stop before he charmed and intimidated his way into China's most elite group, the standing committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party.