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
The company cited lower orders due to macroeconomic factors and currency-exchange issues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2015
The pigs of “Animal Farm” would certainly look askance at an agreement that was normally reserved for the elites being applied to the lower orders.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 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 lower orders are still as clerical as in the days of Mas'aniello.
From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.