We must have top-quality research; supporting second-rate research is completely wasteful.
I go some way in doubting the wisdom of having second-rate engineers.
It creates a class of second-rate citizens in our property-owning democracy, namely, those who live in mansion blocks which are in private ownership.
Let us not in any way depreciate incorporated engineers as second-rate citizens.
The woman is entitled only to bed and board; women are regarded as chattels in the home and economically and legally as second-rate citizens.
For too long they have been allowed to believe that theirs is almost a second-rate profession that is unsung and unappreciated.
We no longer have to push them down to become second-rate citizens under the yoke of enforced idleness.
I am told that the granaries are full of second-rate malt.