Translation of "Machtelite" in English

Of course, behind the global economy there is a small power elite.

This regulatory power should not be left to the European political élite and the ECB.

For the US power elite this is deeply unsettling.

A broad, privileged stratum was created, closely linked to the ruling upper crust.

More and more, also young men of the ruling class were burnt.

The EU’s power-wielding elite talks shamelessly, however, about difficult setbacks that made their presence felt last year.

Putin’s power elite will start fracturing – indeed, that process may have begun already.

Dissenters are arrested and severely punished, especially if they were previously members of the inner ruling circle.

These are four movements the Jewish-Zionist power elite views as dire threats to their interests and power.

And now, they are not really distant from the interests and the likes of the new power elite.

It's sanctioned by every power elite because it's all one big club, the big world club.

The stale religious prejudices against Islam reach out and transform the EU's powerful elite into obedient slaves on the American triumphal chariot.

He asserted, verbatim, that he accused New York of leaving its own mission in the lurch and, instead, of pandering to the elite in power in Khartoum.

This makes it into the ideal breeding ground for favouritism and blurring of moral standard by a small powerful elite and its environment.

More important was the terror which preceded this, the obstructions put in place by the ruling elite in order to prevent the opposition from meeting, the monopoly of the state channels, the prevention of journalists from doing their job, the obstacles placed in the way of observers, the incidents of torture and the abductions, including even the abduction of important union leaders. The list goes on.

The EU's powerful political elite knows that it lacks popular support for its plans for a United States of Europe.

The potential to develop such activities is of particular importance in countries where an active civil society runs up against persecution from elites who are exercising power.

If Ireland' s no is not respected, the message sent out will be clear, namely that the will of small countries is irrelevant and referendums are only respected if the result suits the power elite.

The fact that the EU’s power-wielding elite is now trying to explain away this state of affairs is a democratic scandal.

There is something unsettling about the global power elite jetting into an exclusive Swiss ski resort and telling the rest of the world to stop using fossil fuels.

But neither the Kremlin's power elite, the bureaucracy, nor the oligarchs seem capable of reforming themselves.

But there was no real victory for the country’s power elite; nor was society defeated.

Against this background, no major internal political changes can be expected in Azerbaijan beyond turf wars within the ruling elite and various acts of repression against the media and opposition groups; thanks to Europeanisation, such groups can now be found here and there in state institutions and in growing numbers in civil society.

Against this background, no major internal political changes can be expected in Azerbaijan beyond turf wars within the ruling elite and various acts of repression against the media and opposition groups; thanks to Europeanisation, such groups can now be found here and there in state institutions and in growing numbers in civil society.

As a result, political control is progressively shifting from an entrenched power élite at the helm of the Communist Party to a public process of competing opinions.

The development of the concept of democracy in modern Greece must be seen within a context whereby the government was dominated by a ruling elite that saw itself as embodying the values and legitimacy of the nation (Wenturis 1997).

This ruling elite tended to view any opposition, even that found in parliament and at the local level, as a threat to the integrity of the nation.