"This agreement does not relegate workers' rights to second-class status."

The child's second-class status is a result of his or her utter dependence on elders.

Black veterans did not want to return to second-class status in the South.

Countries like Italy fear second-class status if they do not qualify for the common currency.

Sports are high priority in Canadian culture, but women were long relegated to second-class status.

The second-class status of Jews thereby established would last until well into the 19th century.

Even women who don't sign the petition will be better informed about their second-class status.

But the officials agreed "on the whole" that without her world role Britain would be doomed to second-class status.

They told me that they do not want some second-class status in these matters.