They feel that the institution is elitist.

Like we're a bunch of elitist, morally corrupt terrorist lovers.

The first at least is populist, and the second is elitist.

The first at least is populist, and the second is elitist.

As to Christophe, his elitist reform was reminiscent of the colonial period.

I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

This elitist remnant of the past is incompatible with the very idea of equality and of democracy.

Compulsory student participation would not only improve Wikipedia s already impressive collective knowledge base, but also might help curb the elitist pretensions of researchers in the global knowledge system.

Corrections from the elitist mainstream media are dismissed as enemy propaganda. As a blogger sympathetic to Santorum put it The Washington Post, as one would expect, attempted to discredit Santorum.

Corrections from the elitist mainstream media are dismissed as enemy propaganda. As a blogger sympathetic to Santorum put it The Washington Post, as one would expect, attempted to discredit Santorum.

Culture at least the culture we are proud of and don t sneer at is highly elitist. We admire the best, and only the best, according to some cultural and time dependent standard.

The problem with today's cultural ghettos is not lack of knowledge we know a lot about each other, or so we think but knowledge that takes us not beyond ourselves it makes us elitist, distant and disconnected.

The dominance of such conservative, elitist institutions is why schools like the Instituto Nacional are so important. Yet once the effects of Bachelet s recent reform kick in, their graduates may no longer be at the top of the ranks.

Governments that come to power through the ballot box often become corrupt and power hungry. They replicate the practices of the elitist regimes they replaced, clamping down on the press and civil liberties and emasculating (or capturing) the judiciary.

Various forms of statism have been tried before all have been found lacking. After all, while neoliberalism was criticized as technocratic and elitist, it was nonetheless a form of liberalism, and it was also consistent with the spread of democratic governance worldwide.

In Europe, populist demagogues, such as Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, rant and rage against the elitist appeasers of Islam. In Thailand, red shirted demonstrators from the country s rural northeast rant and rage against the military, social, and political elites of Bangkok.

Today, it sounds old fashioned to describe the university s purpose as being to cultivate people, as if it were a glorified finishing school. However, once we set aside its elitist history, there remains a strong element of truth to this idea, especially when applied to the humanities.

Back then, Thai schoolchildren sang martial songs each morning, and Thais knew their place in the rigidly elitist pecking order, which was reinforced by socialization and indoctrination in classrooms and living rooms, where only state controlled media could enter. Thais were more like obedient subjects than informed citizens.

As the Bonn process comes to an end with the holding of parliamentary elections, the common peacebuilding endeavour between the international community and the Government of Afghanistan should strive to nurture the element of popular support and engagement and avoid the danger of retreating into a technocratic elitist approach.

Indeed, his speeches are studded with references to arrogant elites who are out of touch with the feelings of the common man. Tolerance is seen as weak and elitist, typical of people who live far removed from the harsh realities of the street, where violent and unruly foreigners menace upstanding Dutch folks.

What we are opposed to is any elitist, selective and undemocratic solution which would be to the advantage of very few and to the detriment of a great many Members of our Organization. Mr. Monteiro (Portugal) On 31 December, Portugal will conclude its current mandate as a member of the Security Council.

109. Scope In the context of the country apos s political tradition, with its record of marked institutional fragility and dominated by an elitist vision of democracy based on an order imposed from the top down, the main challenge is to make democracy a broad, participative and substantive process that can accommodate social and political diversity.

Hu pledged to replace Deng s elitist ethos of letting one part of the population get rich first a policy that has produced a staggering wealth gap with a more egalitarian approach. As part of his government s efforts to construct a harmonious society, a tax on agricultural produce was scrapped last year, while the State Council vowed to boost annual investment in rural infrastructure.

However, once we set aside its elitist history, there remains a strong element of truth to this idea, especially when applied to the humanities. Although we now think of academic disciplines, including the humanities, as being research led, this understates the university s historic role in converting the primate Homo sapiens into a creature whose interests, aspirations, and achievements extend beyond successful sexual reproduction.