Sentence examples similar to first-class officials from inspiring English sources

He was handcuffed, shackled and tied to a seat in first class, officials said.

Both of these events expose the dark and unspoken (although widely understood) secret that enables Catholic hospitals to practice first-class medicine: Official Church policy on matters such as contraception and end-of-life care, like much Catholic doctrine more generally, is largely honored only in the breach.

These two factors, supported by a single policy objective and a first-class team of officials in the Department for Education, gave the project a head start.

From my time on the papal plane a decade ago, I remember sumptuous meals wheeled up to the first-class section where Vatican officials sat.

Other austerity measures include a moratorium on foreign travel, meaning no more first-class tickets for government officials (with the exception of the president, vice-president, and prime minister) or expensive hotels and cars.

At Townsend Harris High School at Queens College, where more than 6,000 students apply each year for fewer than 300 places in the ninth-grade class, officials said that at least 40 seats had been left empty after an unexpectedly high number of applicants who now attend private or parochial school turned down the admissions offer.

It turned out that he was leaving the next day on a monthlong, round-the-world, first-class air tour -- on official Port Authority business, of course.

When the Oakland A's, the only other major league team he ever worked for, invited him to attend special games, his price was a first-class return from Miami, his official home, even though he would often be in San Francisco, a $20 cab ride away from Oakland.

According to the postal officials, 42 percent of first-class mail is currently delivered the following day, while 27 percent is delivered in two days.

The route's clientele characteristically included well-placed colonial officials and wealthy business travelers who expected first-class service.

"First-class," said Time magazine.