lower orders
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Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2017
Otherwise, the lower orders would defect to the other side.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2016
The company cited lower orders due to macroeconomic factors and currency-exchange issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2015
Some early whistle-blowers did come from the middle and lower orders of , which the civil service was forced to trawl for recruits as it expanded, but the worst offenders were some of the elite themselves.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2013
The struggle with the Celts was a comparatively easy one; the native population was by no means destroyed, but remained in large numbers in the lower orders of society.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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