He also told assembly members that he had confidence in his deputy who was "doing a first rate job".
On its face, it might apply to an employee who called in sick and then went to the ballgame--or even to a judge who used his office to get a first rate corner table in a restaurant for himself and his significant other.
"Ireland are not a second-rate team, they are supposed to be a first-rate team, " insisted Trapattoni, who managed Italy from 2000 to 2004.
He got in, and landed a first-rate education at a bargain price.
He was a brilliant debater, a magnificent essayist, an excellent novelist, a prolific writer of nonfiction, a first-rate sailor and a legendary wit.
Example: A senior female executive with a first-rate resume and a fat pension doesn't have the husband and children she once hoped for.
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As a primer on the affair, this is a first-rate narrative and a heartfelt plea to modern democracies to stick to their values and defend basic liberties, however threatened they feel.
But when a well-run company builds a well-designed new house, then uses it with taste and imagination, the plays that you see there will be all the more satisfying for being enacted in a space that sets them off in the way that a first-class frame enhances a first-rate painting.
The movie Roger Ebert calls "a first-rate thriller" tells the tale of a fateful train trip, with strangers offering to "exchange" murders, each killing the person the other wants dead.
Slowing down to explore the side canyons is a first-rate way to pack extra adventure into a classic American trip, as well as to fully absorb the area's geological diversity.
The ScanJet comes with good documentation (including a first-rate multimedia tour), and sports a handy start button that you can customize to launch the software you want to use when scanning.
In a new column here, The Case Against Do It Yourself Wills, Forbes columnist Deborah L. Jacobs (a lawyer as well as a first-rate journalist and book author), reports a litany of problems with do it yourself-wills.
Some grew out of other operations: Rogue, from Oregon, makes gin, rum and whiskey, but is better known for its line of craft beers, just as Anchor, a San Francisco brewery, began making a first-rate Junipero gin and Old Potrero rye only after a century of brewing beer.
Mr DeVoretz calculates that the rate of return for a doctor who gets an education at a first-rate Canadian university and then goes to work in the United States is around 45% on the direct costs of his or her education.
That question, more or less, is answered in the affirmative by the new book A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness, by Nassir Ghaemi a Tufts University psychiatry professor.
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His exceptional career, chronicled in a first-rate biography, Insisting on the Impossible, demonstrates both the strengths and weaknesses of a founder-driven culture.
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Scott Fitzgerald got off his famous observation about the test of a first-rate mind.
There's no question that the Cessna Mustang will be a first-rate jet in quality and safety.
Bill is a first-rate editor with an enormous capacity for taking on increased responsibility.
The result is a first-rate modern museum that no lover of photography will want to miss.
In his later years, that made him, among other things, a first-rate popular writer on economics.
Camus was a first-rate philosophy student, and the French meritocratic system had purchase even in the distant province.
We are committed to continuing to maintain a first-rate compliance effort woven into the fabric of the firm.
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Schmidt is a first-rate tactician but new to McCain's world, and he still shares power with Black and Davis.
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The keyboard dock seamlessly connects to the tablet PC, transforming it into a full-featured notebook for a first-rate typing experience.
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It sounds simple, but it took Anheuser-Busch some 18 months to produce what they claim is a first-rate premium lager.
It will be a hugely useful resource, inspiring local authorities to emulate the best ideas to provide a first-rate library service.
First, De Backer is a first-rate live performer at a time where concert revenues are the only reliable income for musicians.
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My eldest brother, a trumpeter in a first-rate theater group after his graduation from music college, was holding his brother's admission letter.
He was blessed with a first-rate intellect tempered with down-to-earth common sense.
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