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.

Hence there is less distinction between the several classes of its inhabitants; and the lower orders, being neither so poor nor so despised, their manners are more refined and moral.

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.