Claus von Stauffenberg, another officer from an aristocratic family, and presented with a plan to kill Hitler.

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The scion of an aristocratic family, Mr. Najib was first elected to parliament at the age of 23.

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The image of an aristocratic family down on its luck, wearing threadbare jackets and scuffed shoes, comes to mind.

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His mother, Lady Julia, is a Pakenham, the aristocratic family whose tentacles extend equally vigorously into the world of the arts.

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He stood up to the Cecils (perhaps the most powerful aristocratic family in the land) to ensure that the rich were not allowed to erect special memorials to their own sons.

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Chief among them: In service to the aristocratic Esterhazy family, Haydn's position on the organizational chart placed him among the kitchen staff.

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On the estate of the aristocratic French de Heaulme family in the south of the island she discovered an untouched forest fragment amid the sisal plantations.

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She came from a middle-class family, but had aristocratic yearnings.

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The state claims that Mr Kinsky's aristocratic parents were Nazi sympathisers, and that the family switched from Czech to German nationality, which justified the seizures.

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There may even be some antipathy: with all those convict forebears, an aristocratic Aussie is not a pommy peer but one whose family has a criminal record.

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Although the Nehru-Gandhi family was not, as Ms Singh states several times, aristocratic, they and their circle could certainly be snooty.

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