"First class" pertains to body parts of saints--a fingernail of the Apostle Paul, say, or a strand of the Virgin Mary's hair.
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The chairman of the assembly's justice committee, Paul Givan, has said comments made by Alex Maskey about violence in the Short Strand were not within the members' code of conduct.
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They also collide with the strand of conservatism represented in this cycle by Ron Paul, whose army of avid followers insist that the best thing government can do is to get out of people's way and certainly out of their bedrooms.