Sentence examples for of second rank from inspiring English sources

I plead here for an attitude that does not treat China as a colony, or as a country of second rank that we can bully at our leisure (remember Google as another example where the same Hillary Clinton interfered in a commercial dispute when she should have kept silent).

Not only does that bring Ferrero up from fourth place last year to first, but it puts it more than a full point ahead of second ranked IKEA.

In 1943, in George Frideric Handel's Messiah, she emerged as an oratorio singer of first rank.

He had ended up staying for two years, studying the natives and establishing himself as a "booze-artist of first rank" with kava, the native drink.

This is a consequence of fourth rank tensor property of elasticity.

Königsberger observes that this essay was a "work of genius that proved him to be a mathematician of first rank" (Königsberger 1906, 167).

Since high reliability is more important than accuracy in financial applications, we introduce three rejection schemes of first rank measurement (FRM), first two ranks measurement (FTRM) and linear discriminant analysis based measurement (LDAM).

We predicted the probabilities of first rank for each non-health outcome, as the raw beta estimates in the rank-ordered logit model cannot be interpreted directly.

The order of the species reflects the descending number of first rank matches, i.e., the number of instances where the best match was to a particular species.

Two measures of performance, the bias for estimates of first rank probabilities and the standard deviation of the estimates over 1,000 samples, were calculated.

In this section, estimates of the mean, bias, and standard deviation of first rank probabilities for each simulation setting are given.