A bullfight occurs in the beginning, which explains how Cinderella's matador father dies, prompting her second-rate status at home.

Baseball as a sport, he said, is doomed to second-rate status in Poland, far behind soccer.

Baldwin is not happy with his second-rate status in the series, nor in his own life, and struggles to overcome his despair.

But even in a so-called freedom movement, women were accorded second-rate status.

"A civil union carries a second-rate status for our relationship," Ms. Peck said.

The worst thing that ever happened to Brooklyn was being joined to the four other boroughs in 1898, thereby ensuring a second-rate status.

His sudden elevation from second-rate status makes him appreciate his team's place in the Bay Area baseball hierarchy, today's heroics notwithstanding.

The advent of the keyboard seemed to relegate handwriting to second-rate status.

Ireland, where women have traditionally been relegated to second-rate status, finds itself in the middle of a presidential campaign in which all four candidates are women.

At this point, the Commission has to convince the Russian administration that democratic values do not have a second-rate status in our negotiating package.