Sentence examples for second class player from inspiring English sources

Google as a partner (either in ads or the unlikely scenario as an investor) would leave Yahoo doomed to be forever a second class player to Google.

Last week, Lothar Rühl, a former high-level Defense Ministry official, said Germany was now regarded in NATO as a "second-class" player, and called attention to his country's absence from an open letter written by Mr. Obama, President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister David Cameron.

Sometimes it works, but not against a first-class player.

Mark Ray was an imported first-class player from Sydney in the 1980s who represented the Riverside club, in Hobart.

"We are a first-class player in terms of defence and as long as I am Prime Minster that is the way it will stay," Mr Cameron said.

His career as a first-class player came to an end in 1941 when he shattered his right elbow during a game in Madison Square Garden.

But Mr Cameron insisted Britain remained a "first-class player" in defence terms and dismissed Mr Gates' claims that spending cuts have left the UK diminished on the world stage as "wrong".

Prime Minister David Cameron has called the UK a "first-class player" in defence, after former US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said military cuts had left the UK diminished on the world stage.

A former first-class player with Punjab and Pakistan Railways, the game's other umpire was standing at the bowler's end while Gatting was gesturing to his fielder, David Capel, and sensibly called dead ball as the row erupted.

Varane, a France Under-21 international who has also represented his country at Under-18 and Under-17 level, is described by the Lens youth-team coach, Eric Assadourian, as a "truly first-class player".

"He could be a first-class player.