Elite cabal

Cabal meaning:
cabal
noun [ C ] disapproving
UK /kəˈbæl/ US /kəˈbɑːl/

a small group of people who plan secretly to take action, especially political action:
He was assassinated by a cabal of aides within his own regime.

Here, too, the issue had been one of 'publicness', with a supposedly voluntary charity having come under the effective control of a small cabal of surgeons.
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Here was the scent of monopoly: the government had no trouble sniffing out a manufacturers' cabal to fix output and wages, and deprive workers of their pleasures.
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Parrott demonstrates that the crown was reliant on short-term credit provided by a cabal of well-connected financiers, the clients of the ministers they funded, and therefore unassailable.
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The system is not the distribution of public monies by a medical cabal in its interests, as has sometimes been suggested.
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It was not done in a secret cabal.
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I speak for myself, not as spokesman of a group, cabal, or little clique.
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I do not believe that we should provide for a situation where the mayor could be removed by a political cabal within the assembly.
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I prefer to refer to it as the product of a cabal.
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I am not speaking for any clique or cabal.
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No one can seriously believe that decisions taken by a cabal of about half a dozen machine politicians, behind closed doors, amount to democracy.
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People believe extraordinary things by way of dogmas and cabals on the "money supply ".
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When they spoke, this was not some trade union cabal saying what we should get.
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That would dispel the view that there is some hidden cabal with a quid pro quo, a two-way street of gossip and innuendo.
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Instead of the cabal choosing the people who were elected, the electorate would choose them.
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I find it patronizing in concept, undemocratic in its probable operation, and open to cabals, cliques, and cartels.
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