In contrast, the current gentry liberals increasingly reflect the biases of their own social class.
Pamela Gentry is the Washington bureau chief and senior political producer for BET Networks.
Ms. PAMELA GENTRY (Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Political Producer, BET Networks): It's a pleasure.
For the moment, though, it is clear that founder Gentry Underwood could use the help.
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Like many other Members of Parliament, he came from an old, rich, landed gentry family.
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Then it's not surprising that, so far, the Obama pre-presidency reflects the values of the gentry class.
Indeed, Obama's most liberal positioning may come on environmental issues, a favorite concern of many gentry liberals.
"If she hadn't got out, I don't think she would have lived very much longer, " Gentry said.
Austen's stories are those of the middle class, the gentry, and not the upper class, the aristocracy.
The rebuilt team lacked a go-to scorer and struggled with depth as Gentry continuously tried new lineups.
Yet for all of these synergies, Obama's embrace of the gentry agenda also poses some longer-term political risks.
Ms. GENTRY: Well, they - the criticism I get is that I don't believe the polls, you know.
Unusually for Latino immigrants, these were upper-class people: urban professionals and landed gentry, almost all of them white.
While most discussions of slang focus on the lower and lower-middle classes, the gentry, too, have their argot.
But it's not only ideology or cultural preferences that drive the gentry agenda.
Fitzgerald's story is a pregnant philosophical conceit, like a peculiarly refined "Twilight Zone" episode, set among Baltimore's 19th-century gentry.
After Porter was fired, Gentry was named interim head coach, immediately restoring the up-tempo style that D'Antoni had championed.
After all, members of the gentry don't need supports since they can afford both spacious city digs and country retreats.
To date, the administration has listed toward the agenda of what may be best described as the left's gentry wing.
For right now, the drive for the Kennedy nomination suggests how powerful, pervasive and even cocky the gentry class has become.
Ms. GENTRY: Well, I think she just answered that in the sense that, you know, you all have these newly-registered voters.
Old gentry long disliked the idea of dispersed ownership of property--even if many got rich selling their own estates to developers.
For historians, the Paston Letters have long been a fascinating insight into the soap opera lives of gentry in the Middle Ages.
In 1791, a liberal bill of rights reforming gentry-ruled Poland and setting up a constitutional monarchy, was signed by King Stanislaw Augustus.
Their upbringing was a conventional one of landed gentry with insufficient means.
John Gentry, who played a staff member on the Blue force, the small attack satellites that both sides possessed are only barely understood.
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Gentry had coached the Suns since replacing the fired Terry Porter at the All-Star break of the 2008-09 season, compiling a 158-144 record.
For example, magistrates have not generally been paid because they were traditionally drawn from the landed gentry who did not need to work.
Many gentry liberals, starting with Al Gore, have long disdained suburban lifestyles that allow most Americans an enviable level of privacy, safety and comfort.
For the rest, it provides a connection with an increasingly distant Labour past where scaring the landed gentry came above reassuring the middle classes.
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