ruling class

Call it the new class, the crony class, the ruling class, or the lobbyist-industrial complex.

The ensuing civil war resulted in 20 million deaths and a severely weakened ruling class.

The big houses were the homes of the Anglo-Irish, the abhorred British ruling class, that dominated the landscape.

Undergarments did enjoy a brief moment of exposure in the 18th century, with the ruling class indulging in decorative corsets.

Generally the states dearest to the current ruling class: New York, Illinois, California and New Jersey.

The religion of the temple was the religion of the ruling class, and especially of the king, who was the guardian of the people.

But the progressive citizens, the ruling class—what do you think of them?

It was a "communistic despotism," a community with a despot and a ruling class superimposed upon its socialism.

The ruling class found government too profitable to share it with other possessors.

You will find it wherever there are leisure class hotels, or colleges, or other gatherings of ruling class young males.