aristocrats

Many of the initial settlers were aristocrats who had no experience of work, and no interest in it.

I hope the day of reckoning for the aristocrats is near.

They were wealthy aristocrats who didn't have to work if they didn't want to.

They are above the law, the Lee family is like the aristocrats before the French revolution, wield monopolistic powers and are a big bully.

Most aristocrats are more interested in impressing their friends and immediate circle with off-beat style than in starting a popular museum or being seen as gaudy.

Even pianists once needed to attain an achievable level of mastery in order to be pianists professionally and entertain aristocrats before the invention of the Zune.

The key point of the Magna Carta is that it codified the principle of the rule of law, even if it was a limited to aristocrats.

Oligarchs buy in Knightsbridge, pushing aristocrats to Notting Hill.

I live in ex-socialist country and there is always trash talk about elites, aristocrats and capitalism on our long coffee breaks but guess what?

Unfortunately the very rich aristocrats who own this land have been trying to prevent it since apparently knowing who owns land is some dark secret they're worried about getting out.

Litigation is for gamblers or aristocrats.

Europe has its nouveau rich, that do not really belong to the 1%, too, the same way, that America has its aristocrats, too.

It's almost a religious kind of awe, and so when American powerbrokers visit Japan there is a kind of unsaid understanding that the Japanese aristocrats will make concessions and "pay tribute".

That's why I also firmly reject the ludicrous notion that the artificially scented "Earl Grey tea" is some kind of default option; why give such credence to the habits of 19th century British aristocrats?

This sort of thing could easily turn into a "herd the damn lower class rubbish like cows" and "treat the aristocrats (rightsholders or "cleared") with utmost courtesy" type of situation.

If the guy had been overheard quietly telling his friend a joke like, say, The Aristocrats, then I could understand someone getting seriously offended.

> If the guy had been overheard quietly telling his friend a joke like, say, The Aristocrats, then I could understand someone getting seriously offended.

Every group has some gag, some saying that gets circulated that doesn't leave that group due to lack of context -- you had to be there type things -- or due to it being risque and taboo, like the Aristocrats.