We surely do not want third-rate institutions of any kind.
There has also been third-rate party management from his point of view.
Are we going to be a second or a third-rate power in the commerce of the world?
They should not have to tolerate being treated as third-rate citizens—as, at best, an inconvenience, or, at worst, imbeciles.
That is the way to a third-rate industrial economy which can never pay the standard of living which people want.
That is what the unemployed want to hear; they do not want third-rate lectures about the minimum wage.
We should end up as a third-rate technological power.
It is no use providing third-rate tatty entertainment, because today's customer is used to high-quality entertainment and leisure facilities.