superior inglês:

Many women pursue higher education and careers, thus delaying marriage and childbirth.

Banks charge higher interest on loans to risky customers.

Smaller classes mean a higher standard of education, and that's what we want for our kids.

Faster, higher, stronger!

It was proven that fleas living on dogs jump higher than fleas living on cats.

The members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum, and bend their energies to live up to that ideal.

No matter how low the target, always aim higher.

Even the periodical pay raise could not keep abreast of higher living costs.

The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing part, the latter the executive part.

Citizens of higher social status were permitted to live closer to the center.

You think someone coarser than you is "crude", and someone higher class than you to be "putting on airs".

It is a two level style round burial mound, 23m diameter (lower level), 18m (higher).

Even the upper atmosphere is polluted.

Throughout the five years of painful cancer treatments, he managed to keep a stiff upper lip.

My upper right wisdom tooth hurts.

The prefectural governor got the upper hand in the July elections.

If a women walks on a public street exposing her lower body, it's public indecency. If she walks while exposing her upper body, then it's a violation of article 20(1) of the minor offenses act.

If you're at all wishy-washy during a negotiation the other side will pick up on it and get the upper hand.

When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.

The businessman is trying to keep his people on the go by keeping a stiff upper lip, but they are just acting like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.

If you sleep on your back it's easier for your upper airway to be obstructed because your tongue, uvula, etc. slip towards the back of your throat.

The Upper House seems bent on defeating any reform bills.

Under the Constitution, the lower chamber's resolutions override those of the upper chamber.

Unlike Great Britain, the Upper House in the United States is an elected body.

See how Lenny can swallow an entire hot dog without chewing or choking? That's why upper management loves him so much.

This directive sets an upper limit which cannot be exceeded.

superior quality

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

The superior man is affected towards animals: having seen them alive, he cannot bear to see them die; having heard their cries, he cannot bear to eat their flesh.

On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead."

We went for a scenic drive as far as Lake Superior.

Soft wool is more expensive than coarse wool and both are superior to synthetics made of nylon.

He was ordered, by his superior, to write up a proposal for a new product before the day is out.

Some of these very clever robots are already surpassing us. To surpass means to have abilities superior to our own.

Your laptop is far superior to mine - mine's already 6 years old. It's a superior wine that is worth any price.

The disciplinary superior may renounce inflicting the punishment if the degree of guilt or the degree of the harmfulness of the disciplinary offence is not significant in light of the service.

Our superior is a natural leader and team builder. He keeps our unit motivated and committed to the work

She reported the problems to her superior but she was told to keep quiet.

A person who is higher in rank or position than others, something better than average or better than others of the same type: I will pass your complaint on to my superiors. Some people think acoustic recordings are superior to digital ones.

This study showed that Peg Intron was superior to interferon alfa-2b (Table 5)

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.