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Example sentences for: clique

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When the Soviet government collapsed in the last days of 1991, control of the economy fell to a clique of young economists raised on Chicago School libertarian economics learned from smuggled copies of Western journals.
It is used by those4 who want it to be known that they are a clique — not dangerous people or criminals, row.
A delegation of the Congress Party, of which Sonia Gandhi was president until she recently resigned in a huff when her "foreign birth" was criticized, warned Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee that the same "clique" that murdered Mahatma Gandhi more than 51 years ago was behind it.
Her father was a parvenu who used to be a bon vivant and the enfant terrible of his clique but became a laissez-faire entrepreneur in the entrepôt business and then accepted a post as a chargé d'affaires, which entitled him to a UN laissez-passer, (working to improve detente, and rapprochement with the ancien régime), though he remained a bit of a roué, having an affaire with the au pair.
It is interesting that this clique is composed entirely of smokers.