Sentence examples for as a first rate from inspiring English sources

Tony Stoller, chief executive of the Radio Authority, sees Smith as "a first rate secretary of state, from a radio point of view.

In a television interview in October 2013, he said it had been "a real delight" working directly with Peña Nieto, who he described as "a first rate guy; intelligent, sensitive, respectful, and friendly".

We hope PEPS will function as a first rate platform for the publication of high-quality articles covering the wide field of subjects of interest to the JpGU.

Many also knew Turner as a first rate political speaker within the epideictic genre of rhetoric.

A multiple First Prize Winner of the Orchestral Conducting Competition of The American Prize, David Bernard has been described by the judges as a "first rate conductor".

Actually, Farnon was born in Canada and moved to England in his middle years where he had a very successful career as a first rate arranger.

Koolhaas has emerged as a first-rate satirist of free enterprise run amok.

She proved to be a gifted writer as well as a first-rate scientist.

"Daniel has established himself as a first-rate actor," he said.

But now, amazingly, he had risen anew as a first-rate actor in a Hollywood film.

In the Army he gained recognition as a first-rate mechanic and was given the job maintaining Cobras.