The Chalabis were part of the small Shiite elite; most of the rest of the Shiite majority formed a vast underclass.

His message is particularly appealing to a vast underclass of young people who live in crime-ridden high-rise buildings in isolated wastelands.

Most of the victims, like most of the perpetrators, belong to the vast black underclass.

If the foregoing pieces represent the vast underclass of mid-18th century music, the unascribed pair in G major on pp.go and 92, also very likely a sonata, belong to the solid bourgeoisie.

A vast underclass mocks America's reputation as a just society.

But while the first-world economy has boomed, it has failed to lift the vast underclass out of its misery.

And he portrayed the new Government as providing for the vast underclass: an Islamic "poor tax" will provide funds for welfare services, he said.

At the same time, a vast black underclass is swelling.

And so the 60's generation now seems to be presiding over the permanent entrenchment of a vast black underclass.

What his mayoralty did not mean, sadly, was any tangible improvement for Chicago's vast black underclass.