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Example sentences for: first-rate

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Readers inclined to think of prostitution as a victimless crime are encouraged to read the first-rate piece about the international flesh market by Michael Specter on the front of yesterday's NYT . Specter reveals that the latest trend is Slavic women, who are lured by false ads from the Ukraine in great numbers to such countries as Italy and Israel where whoremasters confiscate their passports and work them until they are arrested and deported.
Loury, in other words, was and is a first-rate technical economist with a mathematical bent who has ended up writing and speaking not about Euclidean spaces but about the political economy of race.
He remains the American right's best evidence that a first-rate intellect (and he was that) could see the world in the black-and-white terms the right has long favored.
(This is usually the secret of first-rate education: No matter how radical a new curriculum may be, the best teachers have always quietly moderated it.)
The availability of many excellent translations today affords readers a chance to see how a variety of first-rate translators read and interpret ancient texts.