But not many had taken the idea of an elite to heart.

Think you have what it takes to be one of the military's medical elite?

Its students are also a who's who of the city's elite.

Her father had been a member of the old elite.

"I expected you to be down below with the rest of the social elite."

It is a view popular with many of China's new young elite.

The football program is one of the elite in the state.

In all other matters he was not of the elite.

French eventually became the language of government officials and the elite.

In the beginning, the government's primary focus was on building schools to serve the children of the political elite.