lower orders
Example Sentences
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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
He had been a long time in service in Siberia, and although he belonged to the lower orders he had been a soldier, and in the rising of 1830—M—tski and B. loved and esteemed him.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
