Other researchers see these motifs as part of a more generalized Puebloan style and / or spiritual significance, rather than evidence of a continuing specific elite socioeconomic system.

Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

This oppression by an elite minority eventually led to slave revolts ( see Roman Servile Wars ); the Third Servile War led by Spartacus being the most famous and severe.

Those made up of the elite are best known as gentlemen's clubs ( not to be confused with strip clubs ) and country clubs ( though these also have an athletic function, see below ).

A subject is an individual subjected to the rule by an elite, see feudalism

* Barrow's Boys-Fergus Fleming ( 1998 ) " For 30 years beginning 1816, the British Admiralty's John Barrow and his elite team charted large areas of the Arctic, discovered the North Magnetic Pole, were the first to see volcanoes in the Antarctic, crossed the Sahara to find Timbuktu and the mouth of the Niger-John Ross, John Franklin, William Edward Parry and others.

Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi, which became established as the prestige dialect ( see Nuosu language ).

National sovereignty can be contrasted, on the one hand, to absolutism and to other doctrines that see sovereignty as residing solely in a monarch, aristocracy, theocracy or other small elite, and on the other hand to popular sovereignty, which has more egalitarian implications.

While the average elite female gymnast is still in her middle to late teens and of below-average height and weight, it is also common to see gymnasts competing well into their twenties.

The Arabs, especially the urban elite, see and understand what we are doing and what we wish to do on the land, but they keep quiet and pretend not to notice anything.

An elite unit that produces a Leader ( see Combat ) may be renamed by the player and is thereafter designated as an " Elite *" unit ( rather than merely " Elite "); however, this has no effect on the unit's competency in battle.

Many examples were planted, as ' rarities ', in Britain and America, wherever elite gardens were extensive enough for tree collections ( see Arboretum ).

Piper played a drifter turned saviour of the human race after discovering a pair of sunglasses that allow him to see the world's elite for what they truly are, money hungry aliens with a new-world-order-like agenda.

It has also been argued based on placename studies that the older language of the area, though apparently Indo-European, was not Celtic ( see Nordwestblock ) and that Celtic, though influential amongst the elite, might never have been the main language of the part of the Belgic area north of the Ardennes.

For an interesting application of the new institutional approach see Terry Karl ( 1990 ), which portrays institutions as constraining elite actors ' preferences and policy choices during transition.

His performances during the season were enough to see him return to the elite top 16 in the world rankings for the first time since 2006, meaning he would no longer need to play qualifying matches to reach the main stage of the ranking events.

The glass ceiling metaphor has often been used to describe invisible barriers (" glass ") through which women can see elite positions but cannot reach them (" ceiling ").

According to Roger Scruton, " Learning that his wife had been conducting a passionate affair with Vita ( to the enraged jealousy of Vita ’ s other lover, Virginia Woolf ), Campbell began to see the three aspects of the new elite — sexual inversion, anti-patriotism, and progressive politics — as aspects of a single frame of mind.

It is argued furthermore that the older language of the area, though apparently Indoeuropean was not Celtic ( see Nordwestblock ) and therefore that Celtic, though influential amongst the elite, might never have been the language of the area where the Eburones lived.

To see if ‘ accumulation of advantage ’ was operating in the career development of the scientific elite, Zuckerman compared the careers of future laureates with those of “ members of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the scientific rank and file ” along a number of dimensions including socioeconomic origins, status of undergraduate and graduate education, the process of moving into the scientific elite, and first jobs and professorships.

Marcel Saupin died on 10 June and would never see the club he created amongst the elite.

It is still very common in smaller high schools to see top players play two or even three ways ( offense, defense and special teams ), in multiple positions, but in college and pro ball, where rosters are larger and the talent pool is more elite, the injury risk outweighs potential benefits.

) Some observers argue that, while academicians often perceive themselves as members of an elite, their influence is mostly imaginary: " Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

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.

The kingdom was ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse, although the crusaders themselves and their descendants were an elite Catholic minority.

There they constituted a devoutly religious, educated elite who made themselves indispensable to the Hausa kings as government advisers, Islamic judges, and teachers.

When Egyptian influence declined or succumbed to foreign domination, the Kushite elite regarded themselves as central powers and believed themselves as idols of Egyptian culture and religion.

Yemeni textiles, long recognized for their fine quality, maintained their reputation and were exported for use by the Abbasid elite, including the caliphs themselves.

They develop countermovements in order to gain the power necessary to defend themselves against the movements of the elite.

By the turn of the twentieth century, a proportionately small yet socially significant cross-section of China's traditional elite ( i. e. landlords and bureaucrats ), found themselves increasingly skeptical of the efficacy and even the moral validity of Confucianism.

Raeder's traditionalism meant that honouring tradition and history played a huge role in the Navy under his leadership, with both officers and men encouraged to think of themselves at all times as part of an elite with a glorious history.

Taiwan's elite hoped that by declaring themselves a republic the world would not stand by and allow a sovereign state to be invaded by the Japanese, thereby allying with the Qing.

Opinions of trusted or elite individuals may themselves become a heuristic.

Quimby's political stranglehold on Springfield has earned him the hatred of Springfield's small but vocal Republican elite, themselves portrayed as mostly dark, ghoulish figures who meet in a castle.

Edgefield's yeomen farmers were " self-working farmers ," distinct from the elite because they worked their land themselves alongside any slaves they owned.

The intellectual leaders of this movement regarded themselves as a courageous elite, and regarded their purpose as one of leading the world toward progress and out of a long period of doubtful tradition, full of irrationality, superstition, and tyranny, which they believed began during a historical period they called the Dark Ages.

Members of this ruling elite usually identified themselves as Irish while adopting English practices in politics, commerce, and culture.

In the summer of 1980 the Cats found themselves being courted by the elite of the music world including Virgin Records, Stiff Records and Arista Records.

Once elite forces, the Janissaries had become a conservative elite using their military power to advance themselves commercially and politically.

If political decisions are made by deliberation but not by the people themselves or their elected representatives, then there is no democratic element ; this deliberative process is called elite deliberation.

Once all these powerful rulers had firmly established themselves within their respective dominions, the bloodshed focused more fully on interstate conflict in the Warring States Period, which began in 403 BC when the three remaining elite families in Jin – Zhao, Wei and Han – partitioned the state.

Davos Man is a neologism which refers to the global elite of wealthy men whose members view themselves as completely international.

In the 1890s, some members of the educated coastal elite organized themselves into the Aborigines ' Rights Protection Society to protest a land bill that threatened traditional land tenure.

To link themselves with the learned elite of their cities, they relied on the political usage of patronage practices.

The original WASP elite established the United States, its social structure and significant institutions, existing as the dominant social group beginning in the 17th century when the country's social hierarchy took shape, and lasting into the 1960s, when WASP society gradually began to relinquish national control and retreating amongst themselves, growing reminiscent of a cloistered Aristocracy, in what has been termed the Leisure class.