Sentence examples for riche elite from inspiring English sources

Now it's a chic hideaway for Russia's nouveau riche elite.

The nouveau riche and old-guard elite realized that rich people should have art collections, and the art market spiked.

He calls the nouveau riche homes built by the Jakarta elite castle-compounds.

Even the mayor, who is appointed by the municipal council, serves the interests of that group, which is composed of the nouveau-riche children of Iran's clerical elite, Mr. Asgharzadeh said.

The Russian businessman Alexander Trofimov came to Cambodia in 2005 and started building a $300 million tourist resort on Snake Island, off the southwest coast, entrenching himself among the "Khmer Riche," the highest echelons of Cambodia's elite.

Yet it is not the expats but the nouveau riche with connections to the new power elite, such as the student idealist Zubaida - a foil to Din - who can now get things done.

"The ads for the period say 'furniture in the newest taste.' The elite of Boston and the nouveau riche were so fashion conscious, they wanted to have something no one else had".

And that's elite English football today: A pretentious, nouveau-riche snob pretending it doesn't know its old mates any more.

Also, "nouveau riche" is singular; the plural is "nouveaux riches".

Both enjoy fine support and both have a rich pedigree but, arguably, there the similarities end; those who decry the Premiership as a cash-conscious haven for sport's nouveau riche should remember that there are haves and have-nots even among the elite.

Call them the ganja riche.