Sentence examples for once superior from inspiring English sources

Their once superior status – based only on being white – was being dismantled, while their lack of education was also being punished.

The pleasure for young listeners is getting to laugh at these characters, while at the same time feeling at once superior to and affectionate toward them.

Just as the Romans viewed the Egyptians as exotic others, the British felt at once superior to, and baffled by, the people and customs of India, the Middle East and the other realms they lorded over.

Lips pursed, hair piled high, the dark-eyed Ms. Quick comes readily by the misplaced grandeur of a widowed émigrée from Europe displaced to a lakeside existence in the Catskills in the early 1960s to which she is at once superior and in thrall.

With a nod of approval from her once superior and now peer Diane Lockhart, Alicia settled into her throne.

What's inexcusable is the Board's treatment of the district's public school children and parents as it oversees the destruction of a once superior system.

Once superiors do it, so others follow suit.

But in dealing with once-superior athletes who have no concept of how good they are versus how good they once were, change can come embarrassingly slow.

You thought of all that ambition smoothed into a superb career on the days before this Test when he scoured the nets to see signs of difficulty or crisis in any of his team-mates and at one point broke off from his own work to help his vice-captain, Michael Clarke, on some critical problems in a once-superior technique.

Navajo Tribal Police officer, Sergeant Jim Chee, reluctantly finds himself involved, as does his now-retired-once-superior-officer Lt. Joe Leaphorn.

Its CANDU reactors were once thought superior because they could be refuelled without shutting down.