" Numerous researchers point out that democratic norms and political structures constrain elite decisions about the use of repression against their citizens whereas autocratic elites are not so constrained.

By doing so he and the German dukes gained time to fortify towns and train a new elite cavalry force.

" 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.

4 ) The introduction of 100 % Inheritance Tax, so that the superrich elite can no longer pass on their wealth to a select few ( their privileged children ) rather than the Commonwealth.

Singer agrees with Julian Savulescu that elite athletes should be allowed to take whatever performance-enhancing drugs they wish, " as long as it is safe for them to do so.

The house, located at the epicenter of India's ruling Mughal elite, is so large that in 2001 it housed eight different families.

Peter Gzowski says that elite athletes in all sports understand the game so well, and in such detail, that they can instantly recognize and capitalize upon emerging patterns of play.

This was the start of a long period of stagnation of trade and development in Utrecht, an atypical city in the new state, still about 40 % Catholic in the mid-17th century, and even more so among the elite groups, who included many rural nobility and gentry with town houses there.

Whittington had long supplied the new king, Henry IV, as a prominent member of the landowning elite and so his business simply continued as before.

The elite in Norway was so weakened that it was not able to resist the pressures from the Danes.

As Charleston grew, so did the community's cultural and social opportunities, especially for the elite merchants and planters.

The facilities and standards of education are considered amongst the highest in India and so these schools are popular amongst the elite of India and some of its neighbouring countries.

She did not like seeing so many people – elite and otherwise – fooled by something so simple.

His elder brothers raised money so that he could attend the elite schools run by France, who were Vietnam's colonial masters.

In fact, the impact of the glass industry was so significant that the city's name actually comes from Jeannette E. Hartupee McKee, the wife of H. Sellers McKee, a local industrialist who cofounded the Chambers and McKee Glass Works and was a member of the elite South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club of Johnstown Flood fame.

It does also seem that his template is the presidency of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, and that a major aim of his presidency is the preservation of the elite that emerged during the Kenyatta years, which he is part of, along with the system that made that elite and so much preserves and favours it.

If the political elite in Ireland remained tolerant of British political parties and the monarchy, emigrants were not so.

The Spanish hoped to win over support of the Miskito elite, for example, by offering them the same sort of presents that the English, and by educating their youth in Guatemala, as so many Miskito had been educated in Jamaica.

# The Spanish exiles were regarded as an elite and supplied many of the Chief Rabbis to the countries in which they settled, so that the Spanish rite tended to be favoured over any previous native rite ;

Attended by the area's political elite, traditional elders ( Issims ), members of the business community, intellectuals and other civil society representatives, the autonomous Puntland State of Somalia was subsequently officially established so as to deliver services to the population, offer security, facilitate trade, and interact with both domestic and international partners.

Gaius ' first action was to move from his home on the Palatine, where the wealthiest of Romans and the political elite lived, to a neighborhood near the Forum, believing that in so doing he was keeping to his democratic principles and reaffirming his loyalty to the People rather than to the privileged elite.

Instead of being able to influence the new political elite and so shape the public agenda, the Church found itself sidelined at best, detested at worst.

At the elite level, competitors run down a runway ( usually coated with the same rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber also vulcanized rubber ) and jump as far as they can from a wooden board 20 cm or 8 inches wide that is built flush with the runway into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand.

The Macedonian cavalry fought in wedge formation and was stationed on the far right ; after these broke through the enemy lines they were followed by the hypaspists, elite infantrymen who served as the king's bodyguard, and then the phalanx proper.

Sharing the language and culture of the Shang, the early Zhou rulers, through conquest and colonization, established a large imperial territory wherein states as far as Shandong acknowledged Zhou rulership and took part in elite culture.

According to Human Rights Watch, Communist Party leaders and ruling elite were far from unified in their support for the crackdown ;.

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.

According to Human Rights Watch, Communist Party leaders and ruling elite were far from unified in their support for the crackdown.

In contrast to a vision of masses blindly manipulated by a religious elite, the ties of taalibes to their marbabouts are frequently far more contingent and tenuous than assumed.

However, reinforcements were not far away: the Emperor sent in support Wrede's powerful Bavarian division, 5, 500-men strong, as well as the elite Chasseurs à Cheval and Chevau-légers regiments of the Imperial Guard, as well as the Saxon cavalry.

A Liberal constitution for Holstein was not seriously considered in Copenhagen since it was a well-known fact that the German political elite of Holstein was far more conservative than the one in Copenhagen.

The notion of an intellectual elite as a distinguished social stratum can be traced far back in history.

*" The constitutional vision of human dignity rejects the possibility of political orthodoxy imposed from above ; it respects the right of each individual to form and to express political judgments, however far they may deviate from the mainstream and however unsettling they might be to the powerful or the elite .” "

He is a distinct Fuji music artiste with a brand of Fuji that appeals to both the elite and lowly far beyond Nigerian shore.

In spite of the questioned election, Picado was a far less inflammatory figure than Calderón, who had angered the country's coffee and mercantile elite.

He is the team's perfectionist second-in-command, who considers himself far too elite to deal with most of the " ruffians " that call themselves Decepticons.

As far as it can be remembered, Foz do Arelho was always a seasonal vacation resort, chosen by the elite families.

The elite Army of the Southern Cross was based here as well, with a headquarters consisting of a massive complex, with several large circular towers, located at the centre of the city, and by far the most important structure in North America.

* Lambda Eta Pi: A highly elite organization pursuing excellence in all facets of life both within and far beyond the limits of the campus.

Fortune smiled on rich Baetica, which was Baetica Felix, and a dynamic, upwardly-mobile social and economic middling stratum developed there, which absorbed freed slaves and far outnumbered the rich elite.

Tamihere has condemned modern iwi organizations as " new feudal tribal constructs ", dominated by an elite group far removed from the majority of Maori.

The representatives who gathered at Cádiz were far more liberal than the elite of Spain taken as a whole, and they produced a document far more liberal than might have been produced in Spain were it not for the war.

The Roman attempt to prevent the Samnites marching north to link up with the Gauls was defeated near Camerinium The combined army of 80, 000 men far outnumbered the 40, 000 men in the Roman one, commanded once again by the consuls Fabius Rullianus and Decius Mus and including an elite force of 1, 000 Campanian cavalry.

Upon returning, the Dark Masters, four elite evil Digimon, reveal themselves to be the true culprits behind every enemy the DigiDestined had faced thus far.

The site was a hilltop palacio home for an elite Maya family, and though most major construction dates to the Classic period, evidence of continuous habitation has been dated to as far back as far as 1200 BCE during the Early Middle Formative period ( Early Middle Preclassic ), making Cahal Pech one of the oldest recognizably Maya sites in Western Belize.