They were preferred in administrative posts, and formed a privileged elite.
Not surprisingly, this middle class came to consider itself a privileged elite, entitled to govern.
His remarks in India show that he really can't imagine what it's like not to be a member of a privileged economic elite.
Considered as a 'privileged elite', university students were put in a paradoxical situation.
In short, voting rights were limited to a very small and privileged elite.
Wouldn't it be nice, just once, to see the Bush administration oppose the interests of a privileged elite?
The Rules are nothing more than those of the privileged elite keeping things forever static.
There has always been close association between the privileged elite and the parrot flocks.
The demand for English - a trend set by the privileged elite - has put schools under pressure.
He dislikes public sector workers describing them as a "privileged elite".