Sentence examples for a third best from inspiring English sources

For the Lib Dems, AV is a third best compared with the more proportional systems, AV plus and STV.

For they choose if possible plainly to refute the other party, or as the second best to show that he is committing some fallacy, or as a third best to lead him into paradox, or fourthly to reduce him to solecism, i.e. to make the answerer, in consequence of the argument, to use an ungrammatical expression; or, as a last resort, to make him repeat himself.

Which is that our current welfare system is a third best system, the universal basic income being a first best one.

A third best-seller, Firefly Summer (1987), concerns an Irish American who is forced to reconsider his misconceptions about Ireland when he goes there to live.

Best picture, best director, and a fifth best actor nomination for Leonardo DiCaprio among them.

This reproduction is destined to be not a second best, but a substitute.

Julianne Moore won best actress for Still Alice and Citizenfour picked up a second best documentary prize.

It makes poor Wallace seem like an afterthought, a second best - which he clearly isn't.

Any other form of collaboration would be a second best choice.

(As a second best solution, especially for France and Germany, it recommends the management of the networks by a third party).

Temporary monopolies of intellectual property are a second best that can only be justified by the need for incentives.