Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...have often said that throughout your life you frequently had to choose between two evils. Would you say that declaring martial law was the lesser of two evils...
...sheen of utopian rhetoric is thin indeed. The very state that has laid claim to erasing religious tensions has, for the last half century, promoted anti-Semitism through vigorous campaigns against "cosmopolitanism," a euphemism for Jewish influence. The ultra-nationalist group Pamyat ("memory") and lesser known groups have recently taken the lead from the government in stirring up such antagonisms...
...writing to decry the University's unconscionable siphoning of funds to perform abortions. University Health Services provides abortion on demand to Harvard students. This expense of $275 per abortion or a lesser charge for the far more frequent "morning after" abortions is a sizeable item in our school's budget. Unlike the South African investments, the University cannot claim that its funds have no direct influence on this reprehensible practice or that the immediate withdrawal of its funds would not discourage abortions...
...Holden started with some credit cards and a scrawny $20,000 in capital and played mostly in tournaments, in which players buy in for an entry fee and then risk no further money. He knew his cards, and he won some and lost some. But card sense is the lesser part of poker, which is a game of money management at its middle levels, and of character -- an odd sort of frontier monasticism might describe it -- at the very top. The author may have sensed that he was not suited to it when he hesitated...
...Lesser fans may have faltered down the stretch. They might have given up at halftime--or even earlier. But not me. I kept the flame of hope burning for the blessed burgundy and gold. Hail! Hail! Hail to the Redskins...