A key priority was to build up their physical strength, an area in which they had come off second best against their rivals.

一个关键的优先就是加强她们的身体力量，这是她们落后于对手的第二点。

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But, as the dispute over the future of Silverstone has shown, Ecclestone will never allow himself to come off second best in any deal.

BBC: BERNIE ECCLESTONE

But if he hopes to ridicule his new opponent's ideas for tax reform and portray him as a rigid Christian conservative, he may come off second-best.

ECONOMIST: Canada

It had come off second-best in public-relations tussles with various native communities, notably the Cree Indians of northern Quebec, from whose ancestral lands much of its hydro-wealth flows.

ECONOMIST: Canada