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He had a lesser charge of forgery, got a year sentence and died a hero to the Dutch people.
Maybe lesser.
And I believe that the decades ahead of us now will be to a greater or lesser extent turbulent the more or less we are able to achieve that aim: to bring governance to the global space.
It irks me ... when I hear people treat the humanities as a lesser path, as the easier path.
I'm not suggesting that obesity is benign, but what I am suggesting is it may be the lesser of two metabolic evils.
The weight of one is greater, lesser or equal to the weight of the other.
One number is greater, lesser, or equal to the other.
Nosair was initially found not guilty of the murder, but while serving time on lesser charges, he and other men began planning attacks on a dozen New York City landmarks, including tunnels, synagogues and the United Nations headquarters.
They have also, to a lesser extent, invited people to participate in improving the outcome of decisions that were already made for them, just like my mom when I was eight and she told me that I had a choice: I had to be in bed by 8 p.m., but I could choose my pink pajamas or my blue pajamas.
Because of its sheer size, it was meant to be lording over lesser plants, so God didn't like this arrogance, uprooted it, and planted it upside down, hence its particular shape.
It's hard to make the better choice, and it is so easy to justify a lesser one.
I highly recommend the lesser known Glossika as well.
They're regarded as more intelligent, more trustworthy, they're given higher pay and lesser punishments, even when such judgments are not warranted.
Fourth and final point: he somehow, because he was working in all the world's worst places and all lesser evils, had a humility, of course, and an awareness of the complexity of the world around him.
Basically, it's because big, massive, powerful things strongly affect lesser things, and not vice versa.
And in that process that's going to morph from being just for diseases, to being for lesser vulnerabilities, like risk of manic depression or something, to picking personalities, temperaments, traits, these sorts of things.
In one of the battles that the prophet waged, he told his followers, "We are returning from the lesser war to the greater war, to the greater battle."
This appears to be one of Noel Coward's lesser known films, and it is easy to understand why.
I've always thought that Tom Selleck's lesser known movies (ie Runaway and Coma), where well above the ones he had more press for.
Kids, Bully, and to a lesser extent Ken Park all achieve their intended purpose: shock, revulsion, and even disgust.
'The Mill on the Floss' was one of the lesser novels by Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the male pseudonym George Eliot.
O.K. it's low budget but I know films students with lower budgets and lesser known actors who can do much, much better.
This is because these B-movies were quickly made with very low budgets in order to be the second, or lesser, feature in a theater.
To save on costs, incidental music is not used, running times were kept to under an hour, the writing was often rather derivative and the actors are mostly lesser talents--and Wayne himself was definitely far from being a household name at this time.
I am coming out fighting here because this film was so well shot and so well cast that I am twice as angry about its de-evolution than I would have been with a lesser work.
While The Dead Zone was easily the pick of the bunch, Christine and Cujo were both pretty bad, and it's a close-run thing as to which is the lesser of the two.
Friz Freleng's 'Snafuperman' is one of the lesser Private Snafu shorts.
I think I probably would not have been so sourly disappointed if this film had been made by a lesser director, one I didn't normally like so much.
The main reason why I overall disliked it is because it shamelessly ignores a lot of lesser known, but fundamental (foreign) titles endlessly focusing on "Halloween".
He appears in a sequence with one of the lesser leads and doesn't even meet the rest at all.
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