"Yale, which is a first-rate educational institution, has a reputation for arrogance and for not paying its workers enough to live on or retire on."

"The key to Hunter is its core commitment to the arts and sciences; that's what makes it recognizable as a first-rate institution," she said.

There were 1,000 donors over all, mostly small contributors who wanted to help build a first-rate cultural institution in New Britain.

The hospital today stands as a fully equipped, first-rate institution, serving the public, irrespective of ethnicity or religion.

Brazil may be called an emerging market, but it has first-rate financial, educational and research institutions.

"It's a first-rate institution for hopeless cases."

You'd think that a new first-rate institution like this, no matter how idiosyncratic it is, might be embraced by the city.

We need first-rate institutions, like the Memorial and its facilities.

It is a major place to live and work, and as such it deserves major, first-rate cultural institutions.

He was the force that transformed a school perceived as a football factory into a first-rate academic institution.