"A first-class country can't have third-class jobs," read posters plastered on buildings downtown.
"Brazil went from a second-class country to a first-class country, and today we began to receive the respect we deserve," Mr. da Silva said from Copenhagen after the vote on Friday, pulling out a handkerchief several times during the ceremony to dab cheeks wet with tears.
In 2009, when Rio won the bidding to hold the Games, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, then the country's President, hailed it as proof that "Brazil has left the ranks of second-class countries and turned into a first-class country".
As Lula put it in Copenhagen, Brazil is no longer a "second-class country".
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who lobbied longer, said the result signalled that Brazil was no longer a "second-class country".
They don't seem to understand that if you lose your manufacturing base you become a third-class country".
Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations has been dismissed after saying the United States regards Mexico as a second-class country, government officials said Tuesday.
A3 Mexican Envoy Is Fired Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations has been dismissed after saying the United States regards Mexico as a second-class country, government officials said.
The society at large blames him for losing the Soviet empire and leaving them citizens of a second-class country, even if individuals recognize that he opened new horizons for them and their children.
Whoever advocates to the contrary must know that he or she is telling Spain to resign its status as a first-class country.
Bump up the crime to an actual homicide and shift the action to one of those struggling rural piles Ruth Watson works so hard to keep open, and you have all the ingredients for a first-class country-house murder mystery.
