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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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.
As we all recognize, the USSR has a first-rate military and a third-world economy.
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.
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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"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.
In contrast, Universal Orlando is a pedestrian-friendly and intimate complex with two excellent theme parks (Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure), three first-rate resorts, and a carnival-like restaurant and nightlife district (CityWalk) connected by lovely gardened paths or a quiet wooden-boat shuttle.
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.
And, as a newspaperman, it's especially reassuring to know that the Chicago Tribune -- and specifically its editorial page -- is doing such a first-rate job of holding Blagojevich's feet to the fire that the governor allegedly tried to squash the Fourth Estate.
Japan may be better prepared for earthquakes and tsunamis than any other country, with stringent building codes and widespread use of advanced seismic dampening technology, as The New York Times describes, a population well-drilled on how to respond to disasters and a first-rate public health system.
If anything, Porsche has managed to dial up the immediacy of the 911, with quicker reflexes the electrical steering is first-rate a more emotional exhaust note and, at full throttle, the capacity for real, edgy violence.
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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.
It made me wonder playing host to a "first-rate" global capital also came with a massive catch: that as well as subsidising the rest of the country, London's very success was also holding it back.
Digital media enthusiasts will appreciate the entertainment-ready MD Series with a 16:9 aspect ratio and high-definition 15.6-inch widescreen display that vibrantly delivers a first-rate viewing experience.
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Any irritation felt by Mr Blair at this is likely to have been heightened by the fact that Lord Jenkins made it clear that he regarded Gordon Brown, the chancellor, and Mr Blair's long-time friend and rival, as a first-rate mind.
It sounds simple, but it took Anheuser-Busch some 18 months to produce what they claim is a first-rate premium lager.
If a second-rate exchange is first to attract a critical mass of trading, even a better trading system may fail to wrest business away.
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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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.
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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Extra Virgin 's somewhat cramped space detracts not at all from its first-rate fare served with a smile.
Their leader, Mr. Rose (Delroy Lindo, who's first-rate), is a charismatic cider maker who handles his crew with care, but isn't afraid to pull out a knife when he needs to.
The World Bank has an economic research section that each year turns out a first-rate book called Doing Business, which surveys 175 economies on everything from how many licenses you need to start a business to enforcing contracts to securities transparency.
However, any notion that the Reds are in a false position was for the most part dispelled, especially in the first half, by a joyful Blackpool side that blended a work-rate and commitment with some slick passing to celebrate a first win at Anfield since 1967.
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