Sentence examples for be second to anyone from inspiring English sources

"I never wanted to be second to anyone else," he has always said.

You shouldn't be considered second to anyone.

This being his first job, he dwells on things that are second nature to anyone who has spent five minutes employed by a large corporation: your status is determined by what floor you work on, the "creative" folks and the "suits" hold each other in contempt, and so on.

Though Kerry had looked like Droney's designated successor throughout the 1978 campaign, Droney had no intention of stepping down — and Kerry had no inclination to devote his career to being first assistant to anyone.

There's no need to be first; anyone who completes Step 2 before the deadline is treated equally.

And yet she'll be the first to tell anyone that asks, being happy and in love requires a lot of work.

But apart from the blackboard (a disruptive technology that allegedly triggered classroom riots when it was first introduced), can anyone point to something genuinely new that's happened in education during the last ten centuries?

Logically, this means that for two different components, no one in the first component can be connected to anyone in the second component.

The first is to anyone who knows of organisations creating great art, whose existence is threatened by funding cuts.

Alcohol can ruin lives and I'm the first to admire anyone who is in control of their drinking.

The first should be familiar to anyone who knows the saying about not letting the fox guard the henhouse.