How To Use Lesser In A Sentence

All Slavic languages, to a greater or lesser degree, have developed from contact with the Urnfield culture.
Memphis was 7-3 entering the week, but six of the victories were against teams from lesser conferences.
Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
Batting and, to a lesser degree, bowling are tackled together. Times, Sunday Times
It's here that he rails for the umpteenth time against lesser critics who have dared to suggest that his boisterous, agonistic account of writerly influence might be weighted in favour of a certain masculinist tradition. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review

It will include harpists, a soprano soloist accompanied by the flute and spinet and music by Mozart as well as other lesser-known composers.
To a lesser extent, the jaw depressors (mainly digastric, geniohyoid and lateral pterygoid muscles) were examined.
‘Typically, in the past, debarments have lasted three to five years for lesser infractions,’ he says.
This came from the xray: One finding not mentioned above, is of a 3.6 x 5. 6CM sharply marginated sclerotic rimmed area in left proximal femur, near lesser trochanter. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Energy is more readily conveyed to the various parts of the smaller mass, and hence the lesser organisms will more actively functionate; and this, as being the urging dynamic attitude, as well as that most generally favourable in the struggle, will multiply and favour such forms of life. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
It was natural that writers interested in medieval history and culture should react sharply to the deni - gration of their period by Burckhardt and scores of lesser men. IDEA OF RENAISSANCE
We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
Thought his pain and shame would be lesser, If on womankind he might his anger wreak, THE CALLIGRAPHER
The E-3A Sentry aircraft, better known as AWACS, and the smaller, lesser-known TR-1, flew their missions in boring circles or straight lines far behind the fighting front. Red Storm Rising
Close against them and overpeering their tops were hollyhocks and dahlias; against these stood at lesser height sweet peas, asters, zinnias, coreopsis and others of like stature; in front of these were poppies for summer, marigolds for autumn; beneath these again were verbenas, candytuft -- all this is sketched from memory, and I recall the winsome effect rather than species and names; and still below nestled portulaca and periwinkle. The Amateur Garden
In addition, there are the Lesser Ones, much smaller spheres that serve the Great Ones; the Dark Ones, enemies of the Great Ones; and the pigmies, stunted humanoids in the care of the Lesser Ones. "Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 5
He got ten years for the lesser crime of conspiracy to murder.
Evil, rather than about lesser evil versus greater evil, or goodish versus baddish. Blogging Against Disabilism: disabilism within disability
What sets this rig apart from lesser designs is the rock-solid fit and precise boning that comes from Kramer's use of horsehide.
For lesser mortals, such as myself, it was a white knuckle ride. Times, Sunday Times
Francis was never known in his lifetime as anything higher than _Brother Francis_, and his community he insisted should be called the community of the lesser brethren -- _Fratres Minores_ -- for none could be or should be less than they. The Coming of the Friars
And the key to its success is that Trilling takes what Aristotle called dianoia “thought,” which he defined as a lesser element of tragedy, and makes it indistinguishable from ethos, character. Archive 2009-07-01
Forcible conscription of adults and children continued, although children were conscripted to a lesser extent than in the previous year.
The other squash we know and like is pumpkin, a winter squash used almost exclusively for pie in our country and to a lesser extent for baked goods such as breads, cakes and cookies.
The principal beneficiaries of these grants were the middling and lesser nobility.
But these were difficult times and a lesser man would have buckled under the strain.
The lesser charges include first-degree and second-degree manslaughter as well as criminally negligent homicide.
These terms were agreeable to the Magyar aristocracy, but could not satisfy the revolutionaries or moderates among the lesser nobility.
In my opinion, Kalawnn replied, the Greatest Stone should be able to transcend all lesser forms of sorcery. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
Fructose, aka levulose, found naturally in fruits and, to a lesser extent, vegetables, is the sweetest of all sugars.
The voiceovers for some of the lesser characters are also at times corny, even if the main cast are much better.
Rachel Gray might be an outstandingly good actress but many actor-managers preferred to have a lesser actress and less temperament.
When an offence deserves a lesser sentence, let that sentence also be passed in open court.
It's refreshing when you see a trainer stick with a lesser-known jockey if more famous backsides are available to sit on their best horses. The Sun
By Section 5 of the Act the court may make a confiscation order in a lesser sum than the value of the proceeds if it finds that the realisable assets are less than that figure.
Most books are dopier than television or movies or even advertising (many books tend to be just collateral promotions or the lesser offspring of dopey television, movies, and advertising). Boycott Books!
Lesser priests and priestesses serve the shrines of fetishes, minor spirits, and focus on cures and magic charms.
He was encouraged to plead guilty to the lesser offence.
The Chinese Buddhists for example were able to conceptualise a Godhead, that contained with it three entities, all sharing the exact same substance, none afore or after the other, none greater or lesser than the other etc, just as articulated in the Creeds of Christendom! Ecce Recensus: The Only True God Persuades A Skeptic
In Harare and Bulawayo and to a lesser extent in rural areas, there are many training centers.
By settling for a lesser licensing fee, the patentee can preserve the patent as a weapon, using it to elicit licensing fees from other putative infringers.
The lesser superficial petrosal nerve sometimes passes through a special canal (canaliculus innominatus of Arnold) situated medial to the foramen spinosum. II. Osteology. 5a. 5. The Sphenoid Bone
the lesser anteater
The idea that mountain folds, and the lesser rugosities of the Earth's surface, arose in a wrinkling of the crust under the influence of cooling and skrinkage of the subcrustal materials, is held by many eminent geologists, but not without dissent from others. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
No medication works in isolation but is affected to a greater or lesser extent by many other factors.
In the hands of lesser songsmiths, such lines would inevitably sound like so much rot, but Gough has a peculiar charm about him that gradually disarms the jaded listener.
In fact, the extreme weather also caused a series of lesser landslips across the country, with traffic disrupted in the Black Isle, Lochalsh and Aberdeenshire.
There is some risk of the de-coupling of Turkey, Turkey's estrangement from the West, said Ian Lesser. Recent Study Shows Turkey Turning Away from West
It's a video litany of natural disasters, of wind and rain and snow and donder and blitzen, punctuated with images of lesser vehicles incapacitated by the elements, while Hummers sail serenely through. Patt Morrison: Hummer? No, Bummer!
Some carpets of lesser value were shored elsewhere; others covered chests, writing desks, tables, and coffers.
The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the shrubs or lesser trees of ane forest, as the puissant pikes, arranged in battalia behind them, correspond to the tall pines thereof, yet, nevertheless, are not altogether so soft to encounter as the plumage of a goose. A Legend of Montrose
Lesser values can be recorded in between the main storm cores and from the nimbostratus.
Medial epicondyle, trochlea, greater and lesser tubercle, " he said. City of Bones
Calvinism found support from the lower classes, lesser nobles and town leaders.
Lesser actors would have come off as comically ineffectual or abrasive and unlikable, but Howard nails the performance.
The reproducible arts of photography and printmaking still remain, by and large, categorised as lesser arts.
Armenialandlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains; Sevana Lich (Lake Sevan) is the largest lake in this mountain range Geography-note
A hypocoristic (or hypocorism) is a lesser form of the given name used in more intimate situations, as a term of endearment, a pet name.
The secretary of Elizabeth I's Privy Council is supposed to have submitted the warrant for the execution of Mary Stuart several times, concealed in a pile of lesser bumf, to help the Queen get over the hump. Discourse.net: Pardon Update (Updated)
Lesser stitchwort, Stellaia graminea, has tiny white flowers with deeply divided petals while red campion, Silene dioica, is much more pink than red.
English and to a lesser extent Scottish aristocratic society were indeed notably fluid in the aftermath of the bouleversement of 1066.
To Dungarvan's eternal credit they mounted a magnificent fight back when teams of lesser resolve would have folded.
He could probably sort out most of the Lesser Dead with Charter Magic alone. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Instead, they went after the lesser-known "petits ma î tres" (mainly 18th-century French paintings, 17th - through early 19th-century Italian and French sculptures), usually following their private tastes for soft-skinned, sensuous women and muscular naked men, whether suave and still or erotically writhing. Nice Wing, Pity About the Art
That leaves plenty of room for other views from across the nation by well-known and lesser-known names alike. Afghan glass is just over half-full
I suffered for a long time, as did, to a lesser degree, my brothers and sisters -- none of whom had ever tried to stop me from shooting the arrows, and some of whom had actually assisted me in achieving near orbital heights with them. News Quiz: How Should You Properly Dispose of Ammo?
Lesser fly-on-the-wall programmes would have ladled the pathos on with a shovel but there's an unfussy, understated humanity here. TV highlights 29/06/2011: Killer Tigers | Timeshift: Hotel Deluxe | Finding Amelia | The Apprentice | Afghanistan: The Battle For Helmand | 24 Hours in A&E
Vietnam is host to several principal kinds of primates: gibbons (lesser apes), langurs and macaques (which are both monkeys), and lorises (which are prosimians).
The hierarchy of race with Aryans or Anglo-Saxons at its apex was under threat of contamination from the supposed lesser breeds.
St. Christopher's Island (commonly called St. Kitts), lies 46 miles west of Antigua in the Lesser Antilles. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
a bit of "jabberwocky" .. but the truth is, as I wrote, that netanyahu is the lesser of the evils. Israelated - English Israel blogs
Philadelphia does have a higher percentage of nonjury trials and a lesser number of guilty pleas than almost any other city in the country, a phenomenon to which I was referring in my review when I cited the Harvard Law Review study by Professor Schulhofer. Copping Pleas
They have either retrained themselves in other professions or fields, or have had to be satisfied with accepting positions that are meant for individuals with lesser educational qualifications than they have.
You forgot one of his lesser-known liabilities - he speaks in an unquotable tangle of tangents and half finished sentences.
The devolution of political power to Scotland, and to a lesser extent to Wales, has changed the political landscape.
They have small ganglia developed upon them, and are derived from the renal plexus, which is formed by branches from the celiac plexus, the lower and outer part of the celiac ganglion and aortic plexus, and from the lesser and lowest splanchnic nerves. XI. Splanchnology. 3b. The Urinary Organs
Successful engineering students tended to be contemptuous of the work habits of lesser mortals.
In fact, I'd talk at length about the actors if there was anything to talk about - every single one comes off as strange and one-dimensional due to the chintzy voice over work provided by lesser talent.
In a lesser artist and person, we might have suspected mere affectation, or an attempt at playing the reluctant genius.
As all those who held direct of the crown by military service (for those who held "by serjeanty" appear to have been classed apart), from earls downwards, were alike "barons," the great difference in their position and importance must have led, from an early date, to their being roughly divided into "greater" and "lesser" barons, and indeed, under Henry II., the _Dialogus de Scaccario_ already distinguishes their holdings as Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Directly opposite the incisura angularis of the lesser curvature the greater curvature presents a dilatation, which is the left extremity of the pyloric part; this dilatation is limited on the right by a slight groove, the sulcus intermedius, which is about 2.5 cm, from the duodenopyloric constriction. XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Stomach
Exceptionally well-crystallized zinc-bearing rhodonite was a locally abundant gangue mineral at Franklin and, to a lesser extent, Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey.
But my simple shunning of her had given the lesser folk of the keep permission to be cruel and callous to her. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
In the other painting he had another, lesser artist overpaint both her figure and his own, substituting grooms holding the horses.
Many GNU libraries are covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License, but not all.
It looks like linzloo has her first stalker troll. linz, I think WillPitt the Lesser has a little crush on you … becareful though. Think Progress » Rush Lies Again: ‘There Were Union Workers’ At Non-Union Mine Explosion
But allowing a criminal to go free is perhaps the lesser of two evils if the alternative is imprisoning an innocent person.
The dominant non-clay mineral composition of the coarse fraction consists of biotite, quartz, and sanidine with lesser amounts of apatite and zircon.
Timor comes from the Malay word for "East;" the island of Timor is part of the Malay Archipelago and is the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands The 2004 CIA World Factbook
If the value of the reinstatement or rebuilding exceeds the value of cover, recompense may be limited to value of the lesser.
Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation.
The lesser multangular is the smallest bone in the distal row. II. Osteology. 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus
They pleaded guilty to lesser charges of criminal damage.
Substantial quantities of RME (rape methyl esters) are produced in the European Union and to a lesser extent in North America. Chapter 9
He cites as a perfect example the scene in Basic Instinct where Sharon Stone is brought to the cop station for questioning and winds up flashing everyone a glimpse of her Lesser Antilles.
He cites as a perfect example the scene in Basic Instinct where Sharon Stone is brought to the cop station for questioning and winds up flashing everyone a glimpse of her Lesser Antilles.
They were shown the plan of a building, and the ‘greater’ members, furnished with trowels, were obliged to build it in edibles, the ‘lesser’ acting as hodmen, and bringing materials.
The overwhelming causes of poverty in rural areas were low pay and to a lesser extent old age and widowhood.
Commas, copyedited manuscripts, and the lesser god "stet Ianrandalstrock's Journal
It is destined to drown all lesser years, even as sunrise dims the morning stars with day; it is a year bright with promise and bodeful with ill-tidings also; for in the world at this moment there exist stupendous differences that this year will go far to set at rest. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
She dressed the lesser injuries, sponging the blood away and applying salve.
There are small primate populations of potto Perodicticus potto, western black and white colobus Colobus polykomos, red colobus Colobus badius (EN), diana monkey Cercopithecus diana (EN), lesser bushbaby Galago senegalensi and chimpanzees Pan troglodytes (EN) which are close neighbors of the tool-using population in Bossou. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
Wolves may consider that the lesser of two evils. Times, Sunday Times
In lesser vintages the grapes do not ripen as well as elsewhere but in warmer years the wines can be excellent value.
Massive Attack used to be adept at bringing lesser known vocalists in to the mainstream and making them shine.
Another obvious gender difference was in the marital status of the testators: while male testators were single, married, and widowed, most women's testamentary documents, at least those that have survived, were written by widows. 50 Most of these were disposing of relatively small estates, often in exchange for support in their old age, and they tended to be less preoccupied with maintaining properties in the patriline, although this may simply have been a reflection of the lesser significance of the properties they were transferring. Gutenber-e Help Page
Warm air can hold more H2O than cold, so you get more evaporation from the oceans and to a lesser extent, the ground. An Inconvenient Truth | My[confined]Space
Yet it also counts on lesser schools being improved because middle-class parents are randomly forced on to their rolls. Times, Sunday Times
A national guardsman charged with the murder of an Iraqi police officer has pleaded to a lesser charge of negligent homicide.
In my opinion, Kalawnn replied, the Greatest Stone should be able to transcend all lesser forms of sorcery. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
It happens in rugby to a lesser extent. Times, Sunday Times
Reports that Scotland Yard are also to investigate Mr Brown with regard to a charge of 'Impersonating a Competent Politician', and the lesser charge of 'Impersonating a Human Being' remain unconfirmed. Gordon Brown in Further Financial Scandal
Common to all of this material, however, is its unliterary, that is, unbookish, character which is in marked contrast to virtually all of Anglo-Saxon epic literature, influenced as it is, to a greater or lesser degree, by Christian or classical models.
There's a sheer cliff not far from that hut and a Tyrolean, using carabiner and prusik, is needed to get across to a rock, at the foot of which is the burrow of the rare lesser hairless meerkat. [my ideal holiday] by walter mitty esq.
The boys who went there were a lesser kind of seraphs, sitting in the shade of a perennial tree of knowledge. John Godfrey's fortunes, related by himself
Many of the beneficiaries of this system were appointed very young after truncated studies, lightning ordination, and rapid progress through a hierarchy of lesser dignities.
Villages will always win over towns because the community spirit prevails more with lesser areas of population.
She saw the animals in the marshes, the herds of caribou that are, above all creatures, natives and habitants of the snow-swept mountains, the little, lesser hunters such as marten and mink and otter. The Snowshoe Trail
The Lesser Antilles are the island peaks of a 700 km-long volcanic arc of 18 volcanoes, overlying a tectonic plate subduction (under-thrusting) zone. Pitons Management Area, Saint Lucia
Most pop music is influenced, to a greater or lesser degree, by the blues.
Most of these species are small mammals and include four-toed jerboa (Allactaga tetradactyla, EN), North African gerbil (Gerbillus campestris), James's gerbil (G. jamesi), pale gerbil (G. perpallidus), lesser short-tailed gerbil (G. simoni) and sand gerbil (G. syrticus, CR), fat-tailed gerbil (Pachyuromys duprasi), and Shaw's jird (Meriones shawi). North Saharan steppe and woodlands
The appellant was sentenced to a concurrent term of 5 years for the lesser offence of simple wounding.
Bobby is known for his role as the baddy in the panto but this year he has had to take a lesser role, due to his commitment as the show's director.
Charged approximately 7.50 per hour for the public meeting, and a lesser amount for the exhibition space.
Attorney General Jim Hood told reporters after court recessed that prosecutors would ask the judge to allow the jury to consider a lesser charge of manslaughter in the case.
Inspection of the headstones showed the names of lesser NCOs and privates, drawn from regiments of city and shire.
Bluebells form a stunning carpet, along with yellow archangel, lesser celandine, wood anemone and the uncommon coralroot bittercress.
He was encouraged to plead guilty to the lesser offence.
Chambers, who was charged with second-degree murder, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, a lesser, but still very serious charge.
In his term as Home Secretary between 1965 and 1967 and, to a lesser extent, from 1974 to 1976, Jenkins set about the destruction of the entire legislative underpinning of the fundamental decencies of British society.
I think accepting the short-term pain of a few three-cornered contests is a lesser evil than the present situation.
Each of these has a different editorial policy and, to a lesser or greater degree, a political bias.
I also had a chance encounter with a lesser-spotted dogfish, so common on the West Coast but fairly rare here.
We see the logic behind withholding the names of very young offenders guilty of lesser crimes. The Sun
Because as gold prices increase, as they have recently have, investors and numismatists (coin collectors) seek out lesser expensive altern … Business News and Business Products, Services, Reports and Advertising. Business News RSS Feed.
But what I prized most of my early scriptings was describing the Blue Nile with the phrase, "The Mount Everest of Rivers," which Google now shows includes the Amazon and Tibet's Tsangpo, and a raft of other lesser streams. Richard Bangs: Avoid Clichés Like the Plague
the lesser powers of Europe
But allowing a criminal to go free is perhaps the lesser of two evils if the alternative is imprisoning an innocent person.
The other five men pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Times, Sunday Times
Though unlike a lot of fans, the humor value of the dubs is a lot of what I appreciate and I don't know if some of the lesser entries in the series would even be watchable if they were truly meant to be more serious. Home Theater Forum
After listening to every Tchaikovsky work she could get her hands on, she decided to go for smaller, lesser known selections, his String Quartet # 3, the sextet Souvenir de Florence, and Autumn Song from The Seasons.
A good number of duck species such as dabchicks, garganey, pin-tailed, lesser whistling teal and shovellers arrive at the Appalangulam tank located inside the Guindy National Park.
The surgeon incises the omentum along the lesser curvature of the stomach at a point below the second branch of the left gastric artery.
Between the Nauset Marshes, Corn Hill, Pilgrim Beach, and the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary we saw 56 species, 13 of them new for Eric, including semipalmated plovers, long-billed dowitchers, lesser yellowlegs, and a horned lark.
The greater and lesser splanchnic nerves (preganglionic sympathetic) are found.
No medication works in isolation but is affected to a greater or lesser extent by many other factors.
A hegemon, acting out of self-interest, imposes its will upon lesser powers. Times, Sunday Times
Could someone with a lesser aerobic capacity successfully perform the tasks required of a transit officer?
During the visits to S. vaginatum flowers, portions of pollen, identified by its bright orange color, adhered to the head and on the ventral thorax of the syrphids, as well as (but to a lesser extent) to their legs and ventral abdomen.
Wide, slow-moving Hurricane Irene began to organize over the Lesser Antilles Islands in the Caribbean Sea.
As well as osetra, there's the lesser-known sterlet variety, which has smaller, more delicate, dark grey eggs. Times, Sunday Times
The ear is supplied by the greater auricular, lesser occipital, and auriculotemporal nerves, and the mastoid branches of the lesser occipital nerve.
This he speaks of as the saddest of all his journeys -- "the only time in my life when the wild turkeys that so often crossed my path, and the thousands of lesser birds that enlivened the woods and the prairies, all looked like enemies, and I turned my eyes from them, as if I could have wished that they had never existed. John James Audubon
But it was a spur to lesser things. Times, Sunday Times
Lesser actors might have baulked at playing an IRA terrorist or an incomprehensible Irish boxer or, as with Benjamin Button, a kind of half-Gump, half-Kermit dimwit. But not Pitt.
The intense flash of heat had, hi the ME's words, 'burned through the orb, the external and internal recti, the optic nerve, the lesser wing, the sphenoid'. The White Ninja
The V&A is also running through the list of important but lesser known influences on art and design. Times, Sunday Times
In our language, and in our common sense understanding of language, the substantialist meaning of ‘being’ is the literal and genuine meaning, and any other is metaphorical and lesser.
As a result, student work will improve if they try drawing trees that show branches growing toward them and - to a lesser extent - away from them.
It's become a way of rendering lesser cuts of meat tender and tasty. Times, Sunday Times
She has also been affected, but to a lesser degree.
The idea of lesser mortals employing some of his methods is horrifying. Times, Sunday Times
This is also the time when lesser players seek to gain an unfair advantage. Times, Sunday Times
Most amphibole asbestos was mined as crocidolite and amosite from Precambrian banded ironstones in South Africa and, to a lesser extent, Western Australia.
Apparently, 'chav' is derived from combining 'cheltenham average', a phrase used by Cheltenham school girls to describe the supposedly lesser mortals who attend the crappy schools in the area. Dale's Academy of Political Correction: Ban Word 'Toff'
If an animal is domesticated or tame, there would be lesser reason to fear that such an animal would pose a threat to the public.
With a lesser comic they would have impeded the flow considerably. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
Nevertheless, the US contribution to the pacification and democratisation of Western Europe, and to a lesser extent the Pacific Rim, shows what can be done when local determination is succoured by superpower resources.
It is too much for us lesser mortals to understand fully what we are supporting and why.
During this period 11 to 16 million years ago, known as the Miocene, there was an evolutionary split between the great apes and the lesser apes, which include modern gibbons and siamangs.
Bucking the trend, however, is Armagnac, France's lesser-known brandy from the Gascony region in the south-west.
So great is the weight of expectation and reputation they bring before them, lesser bands have quailed at the prospect of appearing alongside the mighty Travis.
She's probably best known as the baroness in The Sound of Music, who loses Christopher Plummer to Julie Andrews, but she is to be found as eye candy in a lot of lesser films of the '40s and '50s.
Having had the most blue-blooded ladies of the capital cooing upon his heroic chest, having completely beaten up, with the full support of the law, whosoever of lesser rank attempted to cross his path or refused him the salute -- having had "great fun" saluting generals on _les grands boulevards_ and being in turn saluted ( "_tous les générals, tous_, salute me, Jean have more medals"), and this state of affairs having lasted for about three months -- Jean began to be very bored (me _très ennuyé_). The Enormous Room
The doubted statement is corroborated to a greater or lesser extent by the other statements or circumstances with which it fits in.
No medication works in isolation but is affected to a greater or lesser extent by many other factors.
If a coalition government is necessary, Cabinet and lesser government posts will be allocated after negotiation with coalition partners.
But you are doing it in your own inimitable fashion by growing colder and more toplofty rather than more heated like the rest of us lesser mortals. Slightly Dangerous
I am delighted to announce that there is now legal protection for the lesser whirlpool ramshorn snail. Times, Sunday Times
It is much easier to hurl accusations from above and demand that lesser mortals do the actual work.
Evidence from the stomatic index of fossil leaves, which is an average over weeks or months shows equally large excursions at the time of the Lesser Dryas about 10,000 years ago. NAS Panel – What I'll Be Looking For « Climate Audit
In lesser hands, it could easily have devolved into something dull and uninteresting.
Of course, it may be easier to tell that the good or building is of a lesser quality if its defectiveness becomes manifest but this does not change the nature of the complaint.
The law was designed to protect wives, and, to a lesser extent, children.
The more obvious potential allies are Ireland, Denmark and, to a lesser degree, the Netherlands.
It's become a way of rendering lesser cuts of meat tender and tasty. Times, Sunday Times
If your not from New York your grief is almost dismissed as being lesser in intensity. Think Progress » Coulter on 9/11 Widows: ‘I Have Never Seen People Enjoying their Husbands’ Death So Much’
The tax changes will especially hit those on high incomes and , to a lesser degree, small businesses.
This may go some way to explaining the lesser spotted pipe smoker. Times, Sunday Times
Birds of concern include the brown pelican, lesser tern, osprey, black rail, clapper rail, California gnatcatcher and savannah sparrow. Southern California Coast (Bailey)
I feel the same way about ballet and, to a lesser extent, basketball.
Imagine, for instance, that you're a lesser sandhill crane (Grus canadensis canadensis), setting off on your spring migration from southwestern Texas.
The story is told from two people; the grandmother who is a "blesser" and her granddaughter who wanted to ignore her gift. Advance reader reviews of Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt.
Got a few lifers for my bird list too, including greater and lesser frigate birds, sooty falcon and olive bee-eater.
Although I apprenticed and am initiated into Wicca, I am well aware that what each teacher teaches is, to a greater or lesser degree, their version.
The illness, of which she is now clear, would have debilitated a husband of lesser fortitude.
Several key spots for viewing the lesser kestrel are at ancient monasteries built into cliffs along narrow dry streambeds that wind down to the Jordan River.
The Lesser Mysteries, celebrated in winter, prepared the initiate for taking part in the Greater Mysteries the following autumn.
Near a remote salina, a brackish water hole, the tracks of ocelots and lesser anteaters dimpled the shoreline.
And when they pick up the tempo a little, as they do on ‘Curse Curse Curse’, ‘Rockit’ and (to a lesser extent) the title track, it's a headful of pleasant noise. I like the individual songs, for the most part.

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