Sentence examples for as a second tier from inspiring English sources

Yet there are still grandmasters complaining that they are treated as a second tier and denied appearance fees, reimbursement for all expenses and the other usual prerogatives.

For those in work with no entitlement to join the employers' pension scheme, Labour plans to introduce 'stakeholder' pensions as a second tier.

After the initial screening step, LC MS/MS can also be used in screening positive samples as a second tier test to differentiate between true and false positive samples.

Whether they would view private providers as competitors, and improve their productivity and service provision, or act as a second tier provider is difficult to predict.

Historically, the GLP-1 RAs have been used as a "second tier" therapy, often later in the disease and in combination with multiple tablets when glycemic targets have not been achieved – in a sense, as a "last resort" before the initiation of insulin.

Most of our studied pregnancies were in the first trimester, which suggests that it is possible to implement the test even in early pregnancy as a second tier screening test after the first trimester combined test, which is already in use in many parts of the world.

"It's a little bit false given they're all playing in top leagues and I'm in the second tier in England, albeit as strong a second tier as there is," he says.

We also began including Android as a first tier platform along with our desktop platforms.

An industrial case study shows the current implementation in an ETO company acting as a first tier construction supplier.

However, its clinical utility as a first tier diagnostic method has yet to be demonstrated in a large cohort of pregnant women referred for fetal chromosome testing.

Neurotoxic effects are a non-cancer endpoint for health risk, and neurobehavioral screening tests can serve as a first tier investigation of neurotoxicity [US EPA, Federal Register 63 (1998) 26926].