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1. And the influx of aggressive parvenu capital is certainly shaking up the system.
2. The parvenu hotel giants are keen to engage in large–scale nationwide expansion in the coming years and have ambitiously pledged to build 50 hotels.
3. The only upside to it all is that New Labour top brass cannot fail to be seriously troubled by this thrusting parvenu.
4. Perhaps the closest the parvenu set comes to a centerpiece is Anna Anisimova, the daughter of billionaire metals magnate Vasily Anisimov, ranked 606th richest man in the world in a Forbes survey in 2006.
5. A thoroughly old–school charmer who disdains those sections of society he thinks of as "parvenu" or "nouveau riche", Loewenstein counted Princess Margaret as a close friend, even lending her his Caribbean home as a holiday refuge when her health was worsening.