One article grants the al-Azhar university, the country's pre-eminent Islamic establishment, the sole right, albeit hazily defined, to interpret sharia.
He received an MBE "for services to astronomy"; awards from a host of eminent astronomical establishments, from the BAA to the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and a minor planet (3174) Alcock was named in his honour.
Gruber not only runs a great deli; he is something of a deli historian who collects menus from eminent New York establishments like Lindy's and the Stage, run by the celebrated Max Asnas, who was dubbed "the corned beef Confucius" by comic Fred Allen.
But revulsion at the cronyism and the decrepitude of major-party politics can't be what's driving Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney, two eminent members of the establishment.
S4C was established by statute in 1980 to foster the the Welsh language, but even eminent members of the Welsh establishment, including the former BBC controller of Wales, Geraint Talfan Davies, question whether it is over-funded, while others ask if such a small talent base can sustain a full-service television channel.
Diskin joins a long list of eminent members of the Israeli security establishment who have publicly voiced criticism of, and opposition to, their government's ultra-hawkish line on Iran.
"Warren sounds like someone who actually wants to be president of the United States of America as opposed to the leader of an international political movement, which is how Bernie Sanders sounded in his foreign policy speech," Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, the pre-eminent think tank of the Democratic Party establishment, said in an email. .
One way to bridge the trust gap with the public might be through the establishment of a council of eminent citizens who can mediate between civil society and the governing regime as the transition takes place.
The eminent QC Helena Kennedy, now a scion of the progressive establishment, was a young defence lawyer when she represented Hindley in court.
The suspect prints are even more troubling because their chief source is a member of New York's photography establishment: the 81-year old photographer Walter Rosenblum, husband of the eminent art historian Naomi Rosenblum.
