Sentence examples for elite supporting from inspiring English sources

The original intent was to kill only the political elite supporting reconciliation; however, the government lost control of the militias and the massacre spread liked wildfire.

Government in the first generation was dominated by a loyalist elite supported by British imperial authority.

"It is important to me that we make it clear to the troops on the ground that the country's political elite supports them," he told commanders and troops.

The last coup, in 2006, toppled the then prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra Yingluckck's brother – and prompted a societal schism that in broad terms pits the majority rural poor who back the Shinawatras against an urban-based elite supported by the army and royalists who see Yingluck's family as a corrupt threat to the country's traditional power structures.

The established political elite supported by business promised, at election after election, to address the problems for those left behind.

They became part of a lobby among higher education elites supporting ever-expanding fees, with the elite universities seeking to charge the most.

He backed Donald Trump over Hilary Clinton for the US presidency, writing for Fox in November that "rich coastal elites" supported Clinton because they were not as concerned about growing the US economy.

The vast majority of the country's economic elites supported Rousseff's ouster.

The local elites supported these endeavors, even equipping the choirs and other participants in the festivities.

The regional elites supported the terms of the Plan of Iguala and orchestrated the union of Central America with the Mexican Empire in 1821.

The crumbling of elite support may have helped undermine him.