It's the heartbeat of the world and a first-tier city.    From Wordnik.com.  [For convention executive, work history was a sure bet] Reference

It is a matter of keeping the nation a first-tier democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Madrick: What Obama Should Do Now] Reference

"Our objective is to remain a first-tier label," Ms. Lee says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italy's Hot New Couturier] Reference

"The school shootings have turned this into a first-tier issue.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Apple-mania is sweeping the nation, at least in first-tier cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: How China Feels About America: Dangerous Love] Reference

The truth is that everyone deserves quality first-tier financial services.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clare J. Morgan: End of Free Checking a Financial Squeeze: How Employers Can Help] Reference

As they entered the first-tier box, Diana saw heads swiveling toward them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dearly Beloved]

Otherwise you will forever remain a second-tier outfit charging first-tier prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Dear National Hockey League ...] Reference

Kucinich & Paul are first-tier by Kevin Gosztola on Friday, Jan 4, 2008 at 10: 17: 28 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can Take New Hampshire with Unity for Change] Reference

Yet, strangely, this pervasive problem never rises to become a first-tier issue on campuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Callahan: Do Colleges Care About Student Cheating?] Reference

Someone would have to explain to Bhose what it meant to work with a first-tier media company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

I'd much rather live in a well-run second-tier country than in a first-tier one that's a mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [low confidence] Reference

No meat can be exported to first-tier markets while China has diseases like those listed above.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Lifeboat~ Chapter 3] Reference

It would seem as the former leader of his party in the House, he is clearly a first-tier candidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2003] Reference

Regional orchestras also prepare the next generation of music directors for "first-tier" orchestras.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Love Our Regional Orchestra] Reference

I think Uriah Edmunds was a second-tier candidate, vs. a couple of first-tier candidates in Ward 2. 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [On to November] Reference

But such third-tier issues connect to genuine, first-tier anxieties -- as Clinton's healthy numbers attest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stealth Campaign] Reference

Situation 2: After weeks studying the craft of the query, you send yours out to a list of first-tier agents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Something isn’t right: Is it my query or my manuscript?] Reference

He's moved from kind of an obscure guy that no one knew to somebody who is now seen as a first-tier candidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2003] Reference

The report is the final first-tier data release before the Bank of Canada's next policy announcement on July 20.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bets Against the Euro Drop by Nearly Half] Reference

To curry favor with the broadest range of voters, he, like all other "first-tier" politicians, must avoid content.    From Wordnik.com.  [What you should know about Barack Obama] Reference

For a second-tier foreign policy issue, Sudan has seen its share of first-tier finger-pointing over the last decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Is Still AWOL on Sudan] Reference

Create some conservative academic publishing houses (Regnery is not enough) and publish some first-tier scholarship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changing the Politics of Academe] Reference

You can't have a first-tier military able to protect this country and have it run based on a second tier and weak economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2008] Reference

He does this because, he said, knowing your employees and what's on their minds is vital to running a first-tier company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cable Neuhaus: Time Warner According to Dick Parsons] Reference

The first-tier agency problem is shareholders do not know that corporate money is being sent to a political-trade association.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ciara Torres-Spelliscy: The Apocryphal Midterm Election] Reference

It's interesting not just because the first-tier candidates are looking for all the second-choicers they can get at this point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Des Moines Register Poll: Obama And Huckabee Ahead] Reference

China now sends some aquaculture products and vegetables to first-tier markets (with ongoing residue and other quality problems!).    From Wordnik.com.  [One Lifeboat~ Chapter 3] Reference

The report also predicted the consolidation of suppliers will continue among first-tier suppliers that sell directly to carmakers.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

• Expect a shakeout among some second - and third-tier LCD brands as margins tighten and first-tier brands go after market share.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flat-panel HDTV prices still falling, but not as much as last year] Reference

The government has captured or killed many first-tier leaders of the al Qaeda organization in Saudi Arabia, including one last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2004] Reference

They've gotten a lot of experience against first-tier teams, having played but lost to Duke, Wake Forest, Wisconsin and Northwestern.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

The merger would position the new group as a major competitor in the first-tier construction sector with turnover of almost R5 billion.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

This year the stem - cell debate could become a first-tier political issue -- and another metaphor for the president's failed leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [REAGAN'S LAST POLITICAL GIFT] Reference