Examples of lesser

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Conversely, the lesser globalized countries tend to foster a stronger nationalistic ideology within the public.
Do they induce greater or lesser representation of the people?
A lesser factor causing intrafraction error is cardiac motion.
Thus, this assumption states that voters of lesser party candidates are more likely to switch their support to another candidate under the alternative strategy.
5 are prohibited, they are seen as a lesser evil than /tl/ onsets.
Then fronting central vowels would be a lesser violation of faithfulness than changing [back] to [front].
The 2006 limit is the lesser of $44,000 and 100 % of salary and is scheduled to rise with inflation.
The psychosocial impact of other forms of cancer, including melanoma and lymphoma, has been investigated to a lesser degree.
We recognize that other kinds of texts might challenge the summarizers to a greater or lesser extent.
Just as there are lesser and higher shamans, cannot there also be lesser and higher actors?
A basic rasa identified in rehearsal and presented on stage will seldom be unmixed with other transient ones of greater or lesser effect.
Why this would be a lesser option for men remains to be determined.
The rulers of today are perceived to a lesser degree than in the past as benefactors, albeit still as the most efficient potential protectors.
The students themselves seemed to consider revision of content important but saw it as of lesser importance to the teachers.
In the past, much of it has consisted of laborator y studies, classroom-related studies and to a lesser extent larger-scale evaluations.
Addition of astrocyte-conditioned medium also increased glutamate-stimulated spike rates, but to a lesser extent than added astroglia.
As such, the vocality index should be able to identify a greater or lesser proximity of the sound phenomenon to the voice.
Changes in the first component-the pure inequality effect-are the unexplained changes, due to greater or lesser inequality within the groups.
Most knotty is women's comparatively lesser public influence relative to men.
Moreover, sentence structure influences the use of relative markers in each variety to a greater or lesser degree.
Ferrous materials and paper recycling, and, to a lesser extent, plastic, are a well-established business in the region.
The suggestion that cremations represent individuals of lesser social status is consequently questionable.
Like inferencing, anaphora can be perceived as occurring on a continuum, involving greater or lesser cognitive activity, depending on both text-based and reader-based variables.
As noted, the latter groups tend to be placed in positions of lesser prestige within relief sculptures and in architectural space.
Animals relegated to lesser social positions are forced to make the best of a bad situation.
The female was at least fifty years old, and also wore shell jewelry, but in lesser quantity than the principal personage.
Of these, three were celestial events, whereas the other five were magical or miraculous in greater or lesser degree.
Unexpectedly, the quality of the relationship also associated with age, but to a lesser degree than the other two dimensions.
All four health measures were coded such that a higher score indicated better health or lesser disability.
The principal destinations are residential care homes and, to a lesser extent, child's households.
All the mechanisms or their triggers are to a greater or lesser extent gender-specific.
In contrast, in weaker social settings, adopters can be expected to influence their peers to a lesser degree.
Finally, and of lesser importance to the central hypothesis, the relationship between the continuous psychometric data and the biological data was examined.
As can be seen, no significant interaction was found for any variable except the variables : being unmarried and to a lesser extent, a recent divorce.
Depending on these characteristics, actors are expected to make choices which are to a greater or lesser degree value-rational or instrumentally rational.
The second boy is also a loner, though to a much lesser extent than the first boy.
Today such roles are often deleted or minimised and allocated to performers considered past their prime or of lesser ability.
Going and, to a lesser extent, go are used to encode intent more frequently than the other forms.
Conceptually, a context is marked by several decisions that determine the situation to a greater or lesser specificity.
Negligent mistakes can be penalized as lesser included public-welfare offences with monetary disincentives.
One is the distinction between the moral impetus to avoid and prevent harm versus the lesser, more confined, impetus to bestow benefits.
Because this is redirection from greater harm to lesser harm, it may be permissible.
The same was true, if to a lesser extent, of needy elderly people who had children but lacked a partner.
Where possible, we matched the participant's and the interviewer's ethnicity and, to a lesser extent, gender.
Their parents choose for them to a greater or a lesser degree.
Just as desires can be more or less strong or powerful, so something can be believed with greater or lesser confidence.
The identi®ed categories were further analysed, placing like categories together, leading to a lesser number of distinct categories.
Cues which are frequently available, reliable and perceptually salient win over cues of lesser strength.
The structure of the project gave pupils collective autonomy in the decision-making processes relating to musical content and, to a lesser extent, form.
The current findings suggest that neighborhood density may play a lesser role when learning high frequency or long words.
However, the information obtained pertains more to the diatom population and to a much lesser extent on the cyanobacteria populations.
Alternatively, the benefit to others justifies the (lesser) detriment suffered by the individual.
Past efforts to train physicians have emphasized a concept of professionalism with a predominant emphasis on autonomy and benefit (with a lesser nod to justice).
We refrain from hasty conclusions about the greater generosity and lesser dependency needs of women, but clearly these gender differences invite greater scrutiny.
The heron-like fly defines a much lesser extent, the quarkfly far less.
In contrast, strong resistance was found to pirimicarb and oxydemeton-methyl, and to a lesser extent also to cyfluthrin.
Moreover, our girls' decreasing0increasing class shows lesser decreases and greater increases than their counterpart boys' class.
Also, the previous analysis was based on the whole sample persistent serious delinquents vs. non 0 lesser delinquents!.
In addition, desisters differed significantly from non 0 lesser delinquents on not having been in an institution 76.9 vs. 95.6%!.
Households living in the hills are therefore understandably reluctant to use manure, and to a somewhat lesser extent crop residues, for fuel.
However, this should be lesser than in the case of immediate dominance.
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