lower orders

Some things never change, though — while all football and boxing fixtures were postponed on Saturday as a mark of respect, sports for the more privileged classes like rugby union, horse racing and grouse shooting all went ahead; the lower orders presumably couldn’t be trusted to mourn at sporting events in a civilized manner.

Meanwhile, soaring costs have spurred customers to delay their projects, resulting in lower orders at its renewable energy business.

Aerostructures, which produces parts for civil airplanes, will continue to have lower orders from Boeing, which means the business will face bigger losses this year than in 2020.

One way to justify dealing harshly, even murderously, with the chronically restless lower orders was to claim that scheming among them were the covert agents of social revolution.

He bristles over an elite that dreads “the lower orders” and uses its power and wealth to squash peace movements, labor strikes and demands for universal health care.