Sentence examples for as second rate to from inspiring English sources

"We also can't forget that there is a huge number of gay and lesbian couples who regard the civil partnership as second rate to marriage, and simply not good enough".

"Our students have been checking we are not charging the bottom of the spectrum because they don't want it to be seen as second rate".

It hurts to feel viewed as second rate and she wonders if her family will be viewed that way once their child comes home.

Movies as second-rate as this one have a habit of turning critics into hitmen.

The people with whom he has surrounded himself are just as first-rate as his material.

Presidents of non-B.C.S. universities have said that their teams have been branded as second rate.

The great statesman Winston Churchill came here in 1895 and described Sancti Spiritus as "Second rate" and "Unhealthy".

The guitar accessed the minds and wallets of the masses, rendering dusty collection tins and Oxfam curb crawlers as second rate mediums.

It's a pity that too often we associate amateur with amateurish, and dismiss amateurs as second-rate pretenders to a professional throne.

His predecessor Neil MacGregor described him as "first rate" and prophesied firmly "he's going to be a great success in the job".

Rather than harking back to an age when children started their adult life with qualifications that were seen as second-rate, we want to look forward and work with teachers and schools to give them the freedom and tools needed to stretch pupils, drive up standards and entrench a culture of high expectations in every school".