The Gulf's ruling elites generally stayed in power and were reluctant to see the British leave.

当地占支配地位的精英一般都安于手中权力，不愿意看到英国的远去。

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It is possible, however, that education reinforces authority and the power of ruling elites; indeed, it may often be designed to do precisely this.

但是，教育增强了权威和管理精英的力量是可能的，事实上，教育可能经常被设计去这样做。

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Speaking to the party faithful in the eastern state of Sabah on Sunday,Anwar says Malaysia is witnessing a battle between the common interests of the people against the ruling elites.

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These can range from cutoffs of financial flows to ruling elites, to the establishment of rump trade corridors, to multinational trustee arrangements--say, for public health--that can ameliorate the worst suffering while not being rejected by the incumbent rulers as a threat to their power.

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Cold War logic on either side of its divide lent support to ruling elites across the Muslim world as they placed their survival in power ahead of the need to work out some institutional arrangement allowing for participation of the widest segment of the population in meeting the requirements of democracy and socioeconomic progress.

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It is the world written about by Chris Hayes in Twilight of the Elites, where children are prepped to be members of the meritocracy, that benign sounding name for the ruling classes, which has gone from instrument of democratization to self-perpetuating mechanism within a generation.

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