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That India cannot seem to do any of these things suggests that it will always be a second-rate power.

Even the second-rate rail systems of the next level are at least as good as anything pulling out of an American station.

Mr. Lin gnawed his lips. He vowed he would raise his prices the next day. He would charge first grade prices for second-rate merchandise.

As if things are not bad enough, Miss Lavish published a second-rate romantic novel, and inside, a kiss scene on the top of an Italian hill!

Gordon: I don't know what you're thinking, but I disagree. He is nothing but a second-rate actor.

It was really like a second-rate TV drama. The whole family was crying. I had never imagined that it would ever happen to me.

Arriving at Forbes, he found a second-rate investment magazine running flattery about corporations.

Feel like the absence of a bachelor's degree on your resume is forcing you to settle for a second-rate job?

The rock is widely corroded, especially the second-rate hornblende is all over the rock.

The president is satisfied with a second-rate American economy produced by his third-rate policies, " said Pawlenty. " I am not.

You're nothing but a second-rate actor. You'll never amount to anything.

The German Army had already been depleted by its previous campaigns in Russia and diluted by inclusion of its second-rate allies.

Tom King was getting old; and old men, fighting before second-rate clubs, couldn't expect to run bills of any size with the tradesmen.

Jonathan: There've been a lot of stories that factories in Eastern Europe are using second-rate materials to save costs.

He had been graduated from a second-rate medical school in Oklahoma and had practised in a small town ever since.

It's a center for finance and media, but London may be best understood as a world-class city in a second-rate country.

and venomous-tongued enemies has ever reproached me with being called upon to play the romantic lead in a second-rate theatre?

It achieved a one star -- created a good film star, and a second-rate film stars will need the backing.

You cannot expect a good response to an advertisement if you place it in a second-rate magazine.

But, he adds, at least he won't have to feel bad about persuading people to buy "second rate" cars he doesn't believe in any more.

It's much more important than having a second- rate impressionist painting on the wall.

Second-rate artists will dig in the old mines, but only first-rate artists can get something out of the new mine.

But the hiring of a second rate horror director has destroyed my remaining interest in this project.

Also, much of the vacant space is second rate, so demand for the newly built prime space may be strong.

Whatever the family structure, no child should be made to feel that his or her family is second-rate.

There is a saying, first class companies create talent, second-rate second-rate talent created the company.

But Indian customers do not want second-rate people with no other work to do.

For years, Europe's more-regulated model of capitalism has been maligned by many economists as a study in second-rate market economics.

always be first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Ruth Kelly, the education secretary, this week described vocational qualifications as "second-class and second-rate" .

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

That was the second rate hike this year and the fourth in less than six months.

S company is a large, second-rate, state-owned printing house with a history of decades of years.

your ignorance is why you will always be an oaf , oaf . and now , your weakness is why you ' ll always be second rate . goodbye , cretin.

Second, the poor, of a sort: second-class, second-hand, second-rate level.

Gone are the days when women were treated as second-rate citizens in any genuinely progressive country.

Yes, these clothes are second-hand. But if you're a young, hip fashionista, you certainly won't view them as second-rate.

As a warm-up gesture, he shot a second-rate speculator, Wang Chun-chieh, to scare others into paying off.

Patients no longer accept delays, second rate options, or poor service.

Their art is already perishing , and being replaced by crude imitations of second-rate European pictures.

On Current Situation and Countermeasures of Professional Education Being Regarded as "Second-rate Education"

All these infrastructure improvements are rapidly making the telcos' Intelligent Network a distinctly second-rate choice.

to take second-rate bets that would have been considered marginal in the past.

Soft, soft spread stage, have very good second rate, and soft in this paper on the articles and brand relative let user acceptance.

universities worry that low fees will signal a second-rate product.

He also got a Chinese patent in 1995 and wined a Second-Rate Prize of Shanghai Science Invention in 1997.

That the best you can do? Hurl second-rate insults? They don't hurt. . .

You'll be cold and grumpy and desperate to buy a bad cardigan from a second-rate high street duty-free shop in no time.

You'll see at best second rate art at top-rate prices, and will be lucky to avoid a high-pressure sales pitch.

Yemen has steadily risen from second-rate problem to first-rate worry.

He was not contented with second rate answers.

Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, "We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil society. "

One additional thing to notice in Figure 12 is the "per second" rate for the run.

The loan words are divided into common words, second-rate words and special words according to their usage scale.

Those who don't collaborate with their Chinese peers risk becoming second-rate.

But adoption is not second-rate!

We keep our first- rate people to business , leaving the second - rate people to politics .

And l don't want some second-rate wig named after a hooker.

I think guilt is a second-rate emotion.

Where is the story about second-rate mind games?

The Chinese are second rate sailors and airmen.

And some children who have been adopted have lived with resentment, because they are treated as second-rate.

That one extra character makes it much, much stronger: it would take 19. 24 years at the hundred-billion-guesses-a-second rate.

Jonathan: I've been to all of the factories there; no second-rate materials that I could see.

cannibalizes the lives of his wife and friends for his second-rate novels. (Washington Post)

The Assortment and Classification Construction on Material Resources of Civil Second-rate College Libraries

second-rate 21 feel learning boring and university to say good bye, 22 have love and want to pursue a lonely, feel is in dedicated art;

Second-rate institutes run by local people, under universities: A new exploration in reform of higher education

Of mediocre or inferior quality; second-rate:

Let's begin with just the base page per second rate calculation and then look at an example. The basic calculation is