the favoured few BrE
the favored few AmE

My great fear is that all we are going to do is to give to the favoured few and take from the many.

For the most part, national sport was for the favoured few and pursued to promote the cause of communism.

Four knitting days (or two days and nights for the favoured few) are needed to knit a sweater.

As his father was a teacher and priyayi, Sukarno was among the favoured few.

Mao Zedong had apparently selected his successor, Hua Guofeng, from the favoured few still eligible for political power.

The crowds began to pour from the 'plane parks and carparks, making for their enclosures and, the favoured few, for the stands.

After the favoured few had disembarked, the captain announced over the loudspeaker to the rest of the passengers that they would not be leaving the ship for several hours.

The government's duty is create a fair and equitable framework where all voices are heard ,not just the loudest ones,and allow people the opportunity to build meaningful lives not just the favoured few.

It is not socialism that has failed but selfish capitalism that has destroyed what hope we ever had as a united country that looks out for all its citizens and not just the favoured few.

The favoured few captains would be away patrolling the areas off the Spanish Main where there was a chance of finding enemy ships and taking prizes; those out of favour would be with the convoys.

As we progress up the scale of profit-taking, we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops, until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers.

The favored few leave early when everyone has to stay late.

I petition you to grant the favored few a future and the position they merit in the land.

Some of the favored few resold their homes at enormous profit.

The novelist Philip Roth was one of the favored few.

The favored few who live here can be snappish and defensive, sure that any inquiry about their address is an accusation.

I think he's far smarter than the favored few who live in the mountains with you mages.

He was one of the favored few the Lumière Brothers introduced to their new product in 1906, the year before it went into commercial production.

Mr. Teller fails to appreciate the institutional change that must occur if these new technologies are to benefit more than just the favored few.

Although his community is among the favored few, Councilman Spigner sees the bigger picture.

Not the favored few!"

When all money is issued as debt, then someone must own it (the favored few) and someone else must owe it ( the masses)

This suggestion was readily adopted by those who were not of the favored few; and "The Blue Vein Society" has been known as such ever since.

The Favored Few More plaintive than the protests over clothes checks are those about dealers distancing themselves from all but favored clients.

Their ostentatious greed has widened the gap, and sharpened political antagonisms, between the favored few and the desperately poor majority in one of the world's least developed countries.

But let's not forget that while the favored few are successful, the rest are in poor shape: 75 percent of 7-year-olds have one or more risk factors for heart disease.

But the overall lack of enthusiasm for the 1996 I.P.O. market has created opportunities for investors, especially those not among the favored few who can get new issues at the initial offering price.

For the favored few, including Western reporters, the walk lasted 12 hours, ending around dawn beside a cluster of farmhouses at the village of Zorovici, about 20 miles west of Gorazde.

But maybe the newfound respect for real work and the sacrifices of regular workers will finally lead to profound misgivings about just how far the rewards of the American economy have tilted in recent years toward the favored few.

During the boom, the favored few who received allocations generally sold quickly, leaving the company with a base of shareholders who paid far more than the company received and were likely to be disappointed in the long run.

The implication was that, for a very few special things and people, she could be quite warm indeed, and that it was very much worth an effort to find out if you were one of the favored few.

But, he added, "for that other seven million children, whose needs are the same or greater than the favored few, the Government's message is a different one - that second-rate equipment, third-rate buildings and poorly paid teachers will do for them."

At this hour, the favored few chosen to attend the King's toilette should be assembled in the antechamber, ready to join the procession of nobles and attendants who were necessary to assist the monarch in greeting the new day.

"The elite - except for the favored few - all want him to step down, but no one really knows how to push him out," said Harold Crouch, an Indonesia specialist at the Australian National University in Canberra.

"No other statesman has personified national power and the rule of the favored few so well as Hamilton, and no other has glorified self- government and the freedom of the individual to such a degree as Jefferson."

We might not always agree that our taxes are remotely in proportion to what we, or anybody except the favored few, get in return, or that the founders of this nation would condone the method of collection, but our returns are complete and accurate."