To give up car in a society built around roads, to take only one example, is to become a second or third class citizen.
One of the things that bugs and disappoints me most about contemporary American liberalism is the extent to which foreign policy has become a second- or even third-order concern.
Thus, education has become a second or third choice or no choice at all.
People buy a truck, and hauling becomes a second or third career.
Early on, I knew that I wanted to be an astronomer and knew that even if I became a second or third rate astronomer, it was the astronomy that mattered.
"This budget would ensure that NOAA-NWS becomes a second- or third-tier weather forecasting enterprise, frozen in the early 2000s," David Titley, NOAA's former chief operating officer, told The Washington Post in May.
It also followed months of rising tension and violence across the deeply divided city of Jerusalem, where Israel recently added 1,000 police officers in an effort to ward off what some experts warn could become a third Palestinian intifada, or uprising.
The garden floor, once a rental unit, has been converted to family space with a wet bar and bathroom, but could be reconverted or could become a third bedroom.
We can't know if Cameron will become a second Baldwin, Butler or Macmillan, but there is not much doubt that he would like to.
While Russia would plainly matter more than Portugal to America's geostrategists its regional interests stretch from the Baltic to the Bering Strait, from sea to frozen sea it would become a second- or even third-order country.It would be replaced, at least from America's point of view, by rising China and rich Europe.
