Opinion polls recently showed AfD to be on as much as 12%, making it potentially the third strongest political force in Germany.
The UK higher education system is recognised as the second strongest in the world, after that of the US.
On five separate occasions, the Czech Republic have been ranked by Fifa as the second strongest international team in the world.
In the 1975 elections for the Constituent Assembly, the PPD emerged as the second strongest party, securing 80 seats.
ACCORDING to our sister organisation, the Economist Intelligence Unit, South Korea ranks as the world's 22nd strongest democracy, and as the second strongest in Asia.
Despite all this, the UK is expected to retain its position as the second strongest market after the US, attracting an extra 126,000 international students, according to a study by the British Council's education intelligence service.
The latest polls have the AfD as the fifth strongest party in the state parliament, behind four others with a broadly pro-refugee stance – a reminder, perhaps, that fears of rising rents still register higher than fears of terrorism in Berlin.
Klotzbach on Saturday evening predicted that Irma would go down as the second strongest storm in recorded history in terms of accumulated cyclone energy, falling short of 2004′s Hurricane Ivan, which battered the Gulf Coast and left 20 dead.
Lasker finished second in an international tournament at Amsterdam, ahead of some well-known masters, including Isidore Gunsberg (assessed as the second strongest player in the world at that time by Chessmetrics).
In the genomic region Chr15:62,071,285-62,735,847 in Mbuti Pygmies, there is an obvious increase in EHH and an absence of genetic diversity, and this signal of positive selection ranks as the second strongest in Mbuti Pygmies (Fig. 7A).
The second highest ranked motivator overall was remuneration, however doctors ranked co-workers as the second strongest motivating factor.
