| McEwan may persuade readers to believe in his harmonious little clique, but as a social allegory, his image of family life is hard to swallow. |
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| The hopes of the people have been dashed too many times to believe that they can rid the country of the ruling clique with the ballot. |
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| Foreign officials and consuls formed a special clique in the years of the late Qing Dynasty. |
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| We should not strive for a state where we censor our business contacts and limit them only to a closed clique. |
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| Students were scuttling around, socializing with their clique, or at least the part of them that shared this class in the mornings. |
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| He was best friends with the football players and cheerleaders and was an insider of the most popular social clique in his high school. |
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| This is the first time I can remember a high-up member of the Allawi clique talking like this, and it shows they are afraid of something. |
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| I hope that you all will get to know him and allow him to join our wonderful clique. |
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| I don't mean this in an elitist or cliquey way, for there can surely be no elite or clique in Manchester. |
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| Traditionally the domain of the freezing worker or fisherman, the white gumboot comes with its own exclusive social clique. |
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| The ensuing and recurrent financial crises led to constant infighting within the ruling clique. |
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| His major concern is to strengthen his position and that of his clique in the French-orchestrated power-sharing deal. |
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| This party seemed more tailored to a grown-up clique, so I did what all out-of-place people do, I ate all of their pumpkin pie and left early. |
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| I became more confident in myself and stopped thinking that I had to run around with a clique to be cool. |
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| And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. |
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| She had stopped to listen and offer words of advice, but the other members of that clique had stepped out of the shadows, laughing and jeering. |
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| Syria is a Sunni-majority country chafing under rule by a clique of Allawites, a Shiite sect, who control the secular Syrian Baath. |
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| I had tried the youth group thing, but found it to be more of an extension of the social clique at my school than a spiritual fellowship. |
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| A vicious right-wing clique has, according to her friends, launched a hate campaign against her, and tried to have her election overturned. |
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| Kellin always had these mixed up schemes to try and pull her into the popular clique. |
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| The court clique was mainly based in the general adjutancy which was headed by the Adjutants General von Rauch and von Neumann. |
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| Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal. |
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| Its fans form their own massive and hip clique, communicating and cross-pollinating and one-upping one another. |
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| Unfortunately, a small clique of agents provocateurs also caused violence and disturbances. |
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| What we've seen is a small clique driving us into a war, disregarding widespread public doubts. |
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| And now the Labour party looks likely to move forward by choosing between two more members of this discredited clique, Burnham and Cooper. |
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| Seemingly, there's never enough money… except when there's more for new administrative staff: courtiers for the ruling clique. |
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| In July, Russian banks allied to Putin's clique were sealed off from issuing bonds on Wall Street, only to issue them the next week in Frankfurt. |
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| This explains why his students are a cultish clique, which is comfortable only when preaching to the converted and consorting with the like-minded. |
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| During the 1920s and 30s he was the leader of a clique of Georgian writers, who, violently opposed by Bloomsbury and the Sitwells, were christened the Squirearchy. |
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| It says that every set of graphs with decidable monadic secondorder theory has bounded clique width. |
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| I found the manifesto from the original MP3 piracy clique, a document so old I needed an MS-DOS emulator just to view it. |
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| His quiet, circumspect personality was not a natural fit in that laddish political clique, either. |
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| It is not as if we were some devious clique involved in destroying businesses. |
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| Outsiders often experience this as being a closed clique, and this is indeed often the case. |
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| Vancouver is fragmented and a bit cliquey, but I'm part of a clique. |
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| You are producing generation after generation of chaps and girls who have a very limited understanding of life experience outside of their own gentrified clique. |
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| The center-right hedge fund clique known as Third Way, and associated Blue Dogs and hangers on. |
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| How ironic that the Hermit Kingdom is taking the blame for our first real look inside a clique that not even Vice dares penetrate. |
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| How about the totally Beltwayized and out of touch with America clique versus the people who retain some remnants of common sense? |
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| Not surprisingly, their clique is designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and other organizations. |
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| Her outspokenness did not endear Rogers to the elite clique of former social secretaries. |
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| Not only is post-Yanukovych Ukraine dominated by a fascist clique, it is controlled by unnatural women. |
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| A clique of GOP lawmakers say the debt ceiling crisis is a hoax. |
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| But military doctors, not belonging to any university clique, gather round him, especially naval and colonial physicians whose appointments will send them to distant lands where deadly diseases are on the rampage. |
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| In some eyes they appeared to be a clique and this was to cause much suspicion among other members of the expedition. |
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| President Igor Smirnov and his clique are the only ones holding the reins. |
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| In common with Kenneth Clarke, who never became leader of the Tories but possesses similar characteristics, Healey was never a member of a clique and did not cultivate colleagues. |
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| Yes, you might have got nine titles from your own tiny Finland-based publishing house on the Hugos shortlists, but that's only because you are trying to seize back science fiction from a self-serving clique! |
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| Experimental results suggested that those approaches successfully identified all primary collusive clique scenarios in all selected datasets and thus showed the effectiveness and stableness of the novel application. |
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| An exhilaration at success, bewilderment at how weak tyranny turned out to be and how quickly the despotic clique that decades for decades had brutalized the citizenry collapsed, gave up or fled. |
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| Being part of such a pally clique means they are less likely to monitor what the others are up to, thinks Aiyesha Dey of the University of Minnesota, one of the authors. |
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| The nodes of the tree correspond to KEKs and the leaf nodes of the tree correspond to secret keys shared with the members of the clique. |
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| They have acquired a patina of intrinsic and unquestioned value and they have attracted a clique of true believers and proselytes to promote them. |
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| Charlemagne's death emotionally affected many of his subjects, particularly those of the literary clique who had surrounded him at Aachen. |
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| Heraclianus was still in command in the diocese of Africa, the last of the clique that overthrew Stilicho to retain power. |
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| So keeping with the high school metaphor, what clique would you roll with? |
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| Nissho is a part of the zaikai which superceded the financial clique of pre-war days. |
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| In this case, many Manchus joined the Fengtian clique, such as Xi Qia who was a member of the Qing dynasty's imperial clan. |
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| I have watched particularly the chaos in my own state of Anambra where a small clique of renegades, openly boasting its connections in high places, seems determined to turn my homeland into a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom. |
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| Shows value of studying network clique structure, explains outcomes, and points to need to consider networks and network structure in microanalytic way. |
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