the lesser of two evils

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lesser
Students at a lower level of proficiency benefited from the first approach, whereas students at a higher level did so to a lesser extent.
One argument sometimes raised against it is that it would lead to plea-bargaining, and thus to offenders escaping with lesser convictions and lesser sentences.
Such theories still move us from lesser to greater conditions of intelligibility.
They had some support amongst officials at court, but they had not troubled to build up support amongst the magnates or the lesser landowners.
They have greater verbal and lesser spatial and mathematical ability, and less self-confidence and competitiveness.
Given women's lesser upper-body strength as compared with men's, a positive evaluation of violence helps to legitimate male domination.
We have assumed that all objective functions are" desirable" in that we prefer greater to lesser objective function values.
One is simply moved in one direction or the other in greater or lesser awareness.
Less successful proctors, petition-drawers and to a lesser extent court officials were dependent for their livelihoods on establishing a reputation for effectiveness.
Clearly, as with the existing" subjective" and" departmental" analyses so the clinical analysis of expenditure may be provided in greater or lesser degrees of details.
To a lesser extent material was supplied from the south.
On the contrary they are a natural feature of the human condition, present in everyone to a greater or lesser degree.
Only heaven and the sun would remain, the latter appearing as the lesser of the two works which would endure.
When we act paternalistically towards someone we imply that he is inferior to us by virtue of his lesser capacity to look after himself.
Student comments evidenced a high deg ree of task and strateg ic knowledge and, to a lesser deg ree, person knowledge.
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