The point is to convert the meal into an experience for the chosen few.
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Star academics can lecture to millions online rather than the chosen few in person.
Far from being models of pure democracy, they usually followed the agenda and preferences of the chosen few, who tended to be the richest figures in the town.
"It's a limited specialization with limited practitioners, and even among the people with the specialization only a handful are suitable for working with international financial institutions, " said Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, a U.S.-based scholar who is one of the chosen few.
And, by the way, IPOs typically limit sales of shares at the initial price to a chosen few.
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According to Korten, Wall Street ( Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, etc.) much like the Empire dictates our lives today because everything from mortgages and loans to buying powe, and job creation are closely linked to the prosperity of these chosen financial few.
There is a messianic rapture inevitably attached to these groups: only a select few will be chosen, only a select few will survive the Holocaust that their God, or ideology, are prompting them to facilitate.
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It also carries the risk of producing an inaccurate picture of the overall distribution of moisture, as the spots chosen for sampling may be considerably damper or drier than the soil just a few metres away.
If the Ospreys did manage to entice Haskell to the Liberty Stadium it would be a rarity, with very few current England internationals having chosen to ply their trade on the other side of the Severn Bridge.
Most countries have decided that the way to break into the top ranks is to boost a few chosen universities rather than fund all equally.
Moreover, Iraqis resent the presence of foreign jihadists who have chosen Iraq as the battlefield on which to confront the U.S. Few Iraqis support the jihadists' ideology.
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Wouldn't it be neat if you could power a few gadgets around the house with some tastefully chosen, solar cell-embedded curtains?
In the next few days, the Foreign Relations Committee will be considering the nomination of the individual that the President has chosen to represent him and serve the interests of the United States at the United Nations.
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Every time one of these chosen few goes belly up, taxpayers get stuck with the tab.
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Although enrolment has increased at the remaining few, most of Radcliffe's sister schools have chosen to admit men or establish closer relations with their Ivy League brethren, all of which now admit women.
For all the British misgivings about the Bush administration, Mr Blair shows few signs of abandoning his chosen position midway between America and Europe, though both sides have called on him less since the war ended.
Mr. STERN: So a few weeks after the Pluto encounter when we've chosen our target, we'll fire the engines of the spacecraft, but we'll have to fly a distance something like from here to the sun or twice that far to reach these Kuiper Belt objects.
Does anyone really believe that a few additional supporters will alter the negotiating position Speaker Boehner has chosen to pursue?
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There are precious few in the College of Cardinals, 95% of whom were chosen by John Paul.
The answer can lead companies to focus resources on a few, well-chosen innovations.
It's been chosen to have space for a near doubling of the workforce in the next few years, to reach 300.
Analysts expect these chosen few to boost per-share earnings 22% annually for the next three years, compared with 15% for the overall market.
We've chosen a few examples of this revolutionary spirit: 15 people who changed the world since 1950.
Store cards have the potential to provide significant benefit irrespective of your chosen course of action because they provide useful rewards, are one of the few credit card genres people with poor or limited credit can get approved for, and have lower fee structures than unsecured credit cards for bad credit.
Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight.
While the next pope will almost certainly be chosen from among the cardinals set to attend the conclave at the Vatican within the next few weeks, technically any practicing Catholic can be elected to lead the church.
So a student who has chosen the wrong route has to start all over again a costly procedure for which few have the nerve or the resources.
Researchers have not yet chosen which protein they will fold when Blue Gene is finished a few years down the road, but Horn said that simple proteins will be tested before then.
Before these changes, the only criticism of boards that was taken seriously was that they were hand-picked yes-men (plus a few yes-women), chosen largely for their docility and willingness to pay the boss a fortune.
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And, vitally, it meant standing up for all of the people all of the time, not just some of the people some of the time - so we pledged to improve public services for everyone, not give opt-outs to a chosen few.
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