Sentence examples for ruling groups from inspiring English sources

In many countries ruling groups began to adopt the ideas of positivism, an ideology stressing a scientific analysis of human history and efforts to accelerate progress.

It is this cohesion, which arises spontaneously in tribes and other small kinship groups, but which can be intensified and enlarged by a religious ideology, that provides the motive force that carries ruling groups to power.

That phrase summed up what the ruling groups in Brazil and across Latin America sought in the mature age of export-oriented transformation the maintenance of the hierarchies that they dominated and the achievement of prosperity and a "civilization" that represented an approximation of North Atlantic models.

In 1949, he wrote that mass industrial production in the postwar period had "dethroned the ruling groups of bourgeois society itself: the merchants, bankers, capitalists".

The spread and development of horse trappings recovered from this period, such as bits, strap junctions and terrets, have been used to indicate the withdrawal of ruling groups of Britons during the Roman conquest of Britain.

After the 2007 ruling, groups started spending millions right before an election.

For the Labour party in this area, though, represented by a ruling group of councillors on the coalition East Dunbartonshire council, this has not been their finest hour.

Hamas has since taken over control of Gaza and the Palestinians are divided between Hamas and Fatah, the ruling group on the West Bank.

The advent of a Labour government will not necessarily help: over the past two years the (New) Labour Party has been locked in a feud with the (Old) Labour ruling group in Glasgow.

And no communist ruling group in history has ever managed to regularize successions.

Charles Krauthammer, an avowed agnostic on the Greenhouse Effect, is typical of this currently ruling group.