Its infrastructure is not first-world infrastructure.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2004] Reference

"France is a first-world country and we are third world.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuban Myths Will Test Obama] Reference

WCO debates, he said, were usually dominated by first-world issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

New York stands to lose being seen as a first-world, first-class city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commute From Hell] Reference

This common to us story would sound strange in most first-world counties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. Jan Schakowsky: Why Hilda Needs Universal Health Care] Reference

This is a tempting target for terrorists, but it's nuts for a first-world society.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2006] Reference

In this sense, third-world countries are being used as laboratories for first-world needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body Hunters] Reference

OLMOS: But the first-world nations across the planet are suffering from the same exact thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 15, 2006] Reference

Alec and the Captain had by this time repeatedly broken the laws of most first-world nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the World to Come]

But what about the rest of Chile and our aspirations to become a first-world, developed nation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the miners' ordeal, Chile must forge a new identity] Reference

That is still at least 50% less than it should be, according to other first-world country wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [What you should know about Barack Obama] Reference

HANDLEY: We looked at 30 other first-world countries, OK, we sorted them by under 5 mortality rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2009] Reference

OKE: South Africa sells itself as a low-cost film destination with first-world facilities and talent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2007] Reference

Still, in the modern first-world there is a degree of free-time, safety, and resources afforded us all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sigi Hale, Ph.D.: The Conundrum of Success and True Nobility] Reference

"We're showing ourselves to be a first-world country when everyone thinks we're second or third world.".    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa face Uruguay to a chorus of vuvuzelas] Reference

The country's first-world economy has sucked in international products since the wall of sanctions fell.    From Wordnik.com.  [GENERATION BORN FREE] Reference

I would also say that religious wars are not something that modern first-world nations engage in any longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudy's Strategy: Refighting The War With Liberals He Won In The 1990s] Reference

Speaking to reporters Monday, President Museveni said he wants to make Uganda a modern, first-world country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uganda's Museveni, Besigye Set for Third Electoral Face-Off] Reference

Are Americans and other first-world societies just a tad insularized from the central issue here ... perhaps?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bipolar Bacteria Mania: Whence the Planet's Single Biggest Health Challenge] Reference

Subsidies on agricultural production were designed to protect less efficient sectors in first-world economies.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For a first-world country, far too many babies die during birth or during the latter stages of pregnancy in the UK.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

I just wish that we as a privileged first-world culture weren't so obsessed with having the latest overpriced gadget.    From Wordnik.com.  [inbred Diary Entry] Reference

Under the pressure of first-world efforts to control third-world development, it occurs much more slowly, and painfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are We Creating a Global Death Culture?] Reference

The big companies are more interested in the usual first-world conditions, like high cholesterol, obesity, and arthritis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body Hunters] Reference

We must put Iran on a path towards a first-world nation with national cohesion among minorities and equal rights for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iran Election Live-Blogging (Tuesday June 16)] Reference

I can only assume that this set-up exists in order to portray a third-world level uprising against a first-world military.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall] Reference

South Africa's growth potential lay in the third-world sector and not the first-world sector of its economy, Glen College of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Johannesburg Stock Exchange, a first-world facade that symbolizes the concentration of wealth in a few - mostly white - hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

As I said, neither of these programs would be considered acceptable in any other state that claimed to be a first-world democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Both Surprising and Subtle] Reference

De Jager said the trend in most first-world countries was that the tourism marketing responsibility lay with the private sector itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

As a first-world company we must provide an innovative first-world product even in such a mundane business as carrying crates and boxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despatches from the Globalisation Front] Reference

The United States, a first-world country, having to absorb Mexico, a developing country, with U.S. taxpayers shouldering the social costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2006] Reference

It also doesn't hurt to have access to stockpiles of Tamiflu or the ability to mass-produce more, this being a first-world country and all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warren Holstein: Preparing for the Swine Flu Apocalypse] Reference

Success would depend, in no small measure, on the extent to which first-world thoughts, conduct and standards were maintained and marketed.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Even the skeptics, though, are watching events in Honduras carefully, to see whether first-world biotechnology can in fact make a different for third-world farmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honduras Embraces Genetically Modified Crops] Reference

And, without the accountability and transparency that a well-functioning first-world democracy demands, they are, as Arianna details, growing the ranks of "Third World Americans.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Janine R. Wedel: How the Shadow Elite Is Shorting 'Third World America'] Reference