He will be heading an inner circle of nine (or fewer) party chiefs who intend to run China for the next decade.
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Others suggest that she may retreat to an inner circle in which Hugo Moyano, a thuggish union leader, is an increasingly prominent figure.
We need to look instead at a capitalist cronyism nurtured by the military, which has skewed national growth in favor of an inner circle of oligarchs.
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As the idea has gained ground that the euro zone might form an EU inner circle, so Europe itself has come to seem more important to Poland.
The foreign minister is regarded as an eloquent messenger but not a member of his inner circle.
At one point in about 2010, she asked members of her inner circle to divorce their wives and swear an oath of loyalty, according to one friend.
Moussavi's warning to the mullahs that stealing the election would weaken the very foundation of their regime and ultimately bring about its collapse carries weight because he has been part of the political inner circle of the Islamic Republic, not an outsider.
When it became clear she'd been ripped off, she organized an investor revolt, allied with disgruntled castoffs from the men's inner circle and gathered evidence to prod law enforcement to act.
Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Governance Studies at the The Brookings Institution, suggested in 2001 that as a rule of thumb an incoming president need have their White House appointments -- their immediate inner circle -- in place by Thanksgiving (November 27) and Cabinet staff by Christmas (December 25).
His inner circle remains packed with old friends and Downing Street is still an alarmingly slack operation.
In 1987, Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at a hospital near Spandau Prison at age 93, an apparent suicide.
With music by Gluck, her favourite composer, in the background, the softly lit room is lined with portraits of the queen's inner circle (including handsome Count Axel Fersen, with whom she may have had an affair).
He is their prototype oligarch: an over-mighty tycoon who feeds on his connections, most notably to Boris Yeltsin's inner circle.
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