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Usage examples of elite.

The pilots of the elite amphibious squadron had all been handpicked by Captain Francesca Cook.

Rather anomalous evidence was quite often the center of serious, longstanding controversy within the very heart of elite scientific circles, with advocates holding scientific credentials and positions just as prestigious as those of the opponents.

Only the best and baddest of the badasses got selected for the elite CIRG.

One of them was a short, plump man, who wept piteously and bewailed his fate, even though his elite guards jabbed him with their spears, urging him to put on a better face for the crowds.

Glancing back at the rest of the Elite Eight, Balthor could see they had finished off most of the dementia panthers and that Joha and Brue were rushing to help Tybiel.

Great Yard, enjoying the sun, enjoying the shade and the majesty of the ancient trees, chattering away into their cell phones, which their daddies could pay for as easily as drawing their next breath, suffused with the conspicuous lapidary consumption of all this royal Middle English Gothic architecture and the knowledge that they were among that elite minifraction of the youth of Americaof the youth of the world!

Marines first - there were no draftees here - then done so again to join the elite within the elite.

Danie, worked as a diamond driller, the elite corps among the Copperbelt miners.

In his first three appearances, the Escapist along with his eccentric company had toured a thinly fictionalized Europe, in which he wowed the Razi elites of Zothenia, Gothsylvania, Draconia, and other pseudonymous dark bastions of the Iron Chain, while secretly going about his real business of arranging jailbreaks for resistance leaders and captured British airmen, helping great scientists and thinkers out of the clutches of the evil dictator, Attila Haxoff, and freeing captives, missionaries, and prisoners of war.

By contrast, in ethnically divided elites with a weak sense of common national purpose, development was very much less successful.

In all the gaps regular formations, mixed with Galactic Armored Combat Suits and the elite Ten Thousand, battled day and night against seemingly unending waves of Posleen.

Skull and Bones roster roll off the tongue like an elite party list -- Lord, Whitney, Taft, Jay, Bundy, Harriman, Weyerhaeuser, Pinchot, Rockefeller, Goodyear, Sloane, Stimson, Phelps, Perkins, Pillsbury, Kellogg, Vanderbilt, Bush, Lovett and so on.

Dressed in the royal-blue uniform of the Prime, the Jotnar Elite, the commodore was the embodiment of what Grader intended to be--powerful.

Elite Indonesian and Papuan troops had secured this little plateau deep in rain-drenched Irian Jaya.

Soviet terms it's usually a battalion-strength force of elite troops designed to drop, clear, march and kill.