Sentence examples for joining the establishment from inspiring English sources

It is perhaps because, in having to invent herself as a young outsider, she was more interested in joining the establishment than subverting it.

Lynton reminded me recently that when he left the Guardian to become exhibitions director at the Arts Council, I joshed him with joining the establishment.

The comedian who wrote the potty-mouthed political mouthpiece Malcolm Tucker was targeted by Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's No 10 spokesman, on the social networking site Twitter yesterday, for joining the "establishment he claims to deride".

The works -- one by him, about Barry Goldwater, the other a biography -- both make crystal clear, Victor S. Navasky writes, that "Buckley was at least as interested in joining the Establishment as in criticizing it".

Considering that every major studio originally turned down "Cold Mountain" (just as they did "The English Patient,") and that one of them abandoned it during preproduction, the financial risk and sacrifices associated with the project hardly qualify as joining "the establishment".

And it certainly looked that way when Mr. Davies agreed to become master of the queen's music, a 10-year job with few specific requirements beyond writing odd pieces for royal occasions but a definite sense of joining the establishment at its heart.

At 45 years old, he has clearly become comfortable with re-joining the establishment, a task made all the easier by his marriage in 2005 to Levin, who worked with the formidable uber-producer Joel Silver at Silver Pictures.

They hope to join the establishment, not overthrow it.

Effortlessly hilarious, the psychiatric nurse turned comedian is too risqué to join the establishment.

Mr. Niel said he had no desire to join the establishment.

Once he might have wanted to join the establishment – but not any more.