This has been taken by some archaeologists, such as Stephen Lekson ( 1999 ), as evidence of the continuing reach of the Chaco Canyon elite system, which had seemingly collapsed around a century before.

Traditionally, for the poorer citizens, local marriage was the norm while the elite had been much more likely to marry abroad as a part of aristocratic alliance building.

Ospina also explains the close ties Bacardí family members had to the US political elite as well as organizations of state such as the CIA.

In the minds of most members of the Chilean elite, the bloodshed and chaos of the late 1820s were attributable to the shortcomings of liberalism and federalism, which had been dominant over conservatism for most of the period.

Since FINA refused to rescind recognition of the ASA as the British governing body for all aquatic sports including diving, this meant that the elite divers had to belong to ASA-affiliated clubs to be eligible for selection to international competition.

Availability of knowledge to the elite had always been obvious, yet provision of networking devices, even wireless gadget sign-outs from libraries, made availability of information an expectation of most persons.

When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.

While fascism opposes Bolshevism, both Bolshevism and fascism have been noted to hold significant ideological similarities: both advocate a revolutionary ideology, both believe in the necessity of a vanguard elite, both have disdain for bourgeois values, and both had totalitarian ambitions.

However both Bolshevism and fascism hold ideological similarities: both advocate a revolutionary ideology, both believe in the necessity of a vanguard elite, both have disdain for bourgeois values, and both had totalitarian ambitions.

* Mike Lowell ( 1999 – 2005 ) — Lowell a native of Coral Gables, FL had successful years in Florida and established himself as one of the elite third baseman in the league.

By 1962 the morale of the Foreign Legion was at an all-time low ; it had lost its traditional and spiritual home ( Algeria ), elite units had been disbanded, and in addition, many officers and men were arrested or deserted to escape prosecution.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

By the 18th century, however, Geneva had come under the influence of Catholic France, which cultivated the city elite, who tended to be at odds with the ordinary townsfolk – to the point that an abortive revolution took place in 1782.

One factor in the social anatomy of these governments had been the retention of a very substantial share in political power by the landed elite, the Junkers, resulting from the absence of a revolutionary breakthrough by the peasants in combination with urban areas.

Not only had he largely excluded them from the often lucrative levers of government, but he also enacted the country's first income tax, fostered the growth of labor unions, and suggested that voodoo be considered as a religion equivalent to Roman Catholicism — a notion that the Europeanized elite abhorred.

Kantha ( 1992 ), in a survey of an elite group of scientists who have authored over 1, 000 research publications, identified Selye as one who had published 1, 700 research papers, 15 monographs and 7 popular books.

By early 1945, the communists had liquidated, discredited, or driven into exile most of the country's interwar elite.

LDP leadership was drawn from the elite who had seen Japan through the defeat and occupation ; it attracted former bureaucrats, local politicians, businessmen, journalists, other professionals, farmers, and university graduates.

He was incessantly tortured by the fear of being regarded as a ‘ bourgeois intellectual ’… It always seemed as if he were offering blind devotion ( to Nazism ) to make up for his lack of all those characteristics of the racial elite which nature had denied him.

" Fest also suggests a psychological motive: " A man who conformed so little to the National Socialist image of the elite ... may have had his reason, in the struggles for power at Hitler ’ s court, for offering keen anti-Semitism as a counterweight to his failure to conform to a type.

In 1774 at the age of 16, Monroe's father died and he inherited his small plantation and slaves, officially joining the ruling class of the planter elite in what had become the slave society of Virginia.

The Luo population of the southwest had enjoyed an advantageous position during the late colonial and early independence periods of the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, particularly in terms of the prominence of its modern elite compared to those of other groups.

Riding to battle had two key advantages: it reduced fatigue, particularly when the elite soldiers wore armour ( as was increasingly the case in the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman empire ); and it gave the soldiers more mobility to react to the raids of the enemy, particularly the Muslim invasions which reached Europe in 711.

In both the Olympic and BWF World competitions restrictions on the number of participants from any one country have caused some controversy because they sometimes result in excluding elite world level players from the strongest badminton nations.

A small number of the best equipped and " elite divisions were offset by many second and third rate divisions ".

There are also a number of other jumps that are usually performed only as single jumps and in elite skating are used as transitional movements or highlights in step sequences.

These invasions would have constituted movements of a relatively small number of people who established themselves as a warrior elite at the top of pre-existing native systems, rather than any kind of total wipeout.

In a large, multi-day elite competition ( like the Olympics or World Championships ), a set number of competitors will advance to the final round, determined in advance by the meet management.

There are also a number of other jumps which are usually performed only as single jumps and in elite skating are used as transitional movements or highlights in step sequences.

He responds by sending the ageing general Frigeridus with elite reinforcements that Ammianus calls ‘ Pannonian and Transalpine auxiliaries ( Pannonicis et Transalpinis auxiliis ).’ Gratian sends also Richomeres, his Frankish commander of household troops ( comes domesticorum ), at the head of a number of troops drawn from the Gallic field army.

The purges were organized in a number of waves according to the decisions of the Politburo of the Communist Party ( e. g., the campaigns among engineers (" Shakhty Case "), party and military elite (" fascist plots "), and medical staff (" Doctors ' Plot ").

Of note is the Om Bar which attracts a number of the Bhutanese elite and expatriates who dine and discuss their business ventures there.

Like Simonides and Pindar, however, Bacchylides composed lyrics to appeal to the sophisticated tastes of a social elite and his patrons, though relatively few in number, covered a wide, geographical area around the Mediterranean, including for example Delos in The Aegean Sea, Thessaly to the north of mainland Greece and Sicily or Magna Graecia in the west.

There are a number of other eunuchs mentioned, including the Unsullied, elite eunuch soldiers ; and Strong Belwas, a bodyguard to Daenerys Targaryen sent by Illyrio Mopatis.

Native resistance led to a number of the English elite having their lands confiscated, and some of them went into exile.

Despite the exclusively female, aristocratic connections of her winter festival at Rome and her high status as a protecting deity of the Roman state, elite dedications to Bona Dea are far outnumbered by the personal dedications of the Roman plebs, particularly the ingenui ; the greatest number of all are from freedmen and slaves ; and an estimated one-third of all dedications are from men, one of whom, a provincial Greek, claims to be a priest of her cult.

This research shows that a small number of private and selective state schools have Old Boys / Old Girls who disproportionately hold elite positions in Australian society.

In some cases, divisions titles lack an ordinal number, often in the case of unique units or units serving as elite or special troops.

In 1842, a labourer uncovered a burial at Pouan-les-Vallées ( Aube ), a village on the south bank of the Aube River, that consisted of a skeleton with a number of jewels and gold ornaments and buried with two swords ; by the nature of its grave goods, it was determined that this elite burial was that of a princely Germanic warrior who had lived in the 5th century.

Opera soloists, for which the number of job openings is very limited, can make from $ 350 to $ 20, 000 per performance for the most elite performers.

A small number of elite clans ( perhaps around twenty five ), their warrior followings, the king and his personal following, and the forces that could be raised from the royal fisc constituted the troops upon which Roderic could draw.

Though admitting a mistake had been made, Bradley placed the blame on General Montgomery for moving the Commonwealth troops too slowly, though the latter were in direct contact with a large number of SS Panzer, Fallschirmjaeger, and other elite German forces.

A number of Arab countries has forces called " Republican Guard ", using them as praetorian or elite military forces, in order to strengthen leaders ' rule.

Remains of a Toltec altar have been found at the top of the hill, a number of burials and its use was reserved only for Aztec emperors and other elite.

However, a number of athletes have achieved success in both middle and long distance events, including Saïd Aouita who set world records from 1500 m to 5000 m. The use of pace-setters in long distance events is very common at the elite level, although they are not present at championship level competitions as all qualified competitors want to win.

Finally in 101 their number was increased once more to ten, resulting in a force of 10, 000 troops, whose status was at least elite.

In 2006, Newsweek described Bowdoin as a " New Ivy ", one of a number of elite colleges and universities outside of the Ivy League.