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In Britain, Eurosceptics hope to win a vote to leave the EU whereas in Germany the pro-EU elite wants a referendum to change the constitution to give more powers to Brussels.

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In Lebanon itself, the large, pro-Western liberal elite is palpably at a loss.

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The technically-minded Nick Faldo, the world's best player in the 1980s and 1990s, was also the world's slowest pro, at least among the elite.

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They tended to side with the established consensus: they shared the pragmatic pro-Europeanism of the diplomatic elite and the Home Office's pessimism that little could be done about rising crime.

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