Orpiment is a lesser mineral associated with realgar and lead sulfosalts in dolomite at Binnental, Valais, Switzerland. |
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To a greater or lesser extent, the manifestos of the major political parties have been exercises in fantasy. |
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A short or a telefilm with lesser actors could have served the purpose too. |
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I think accepting the short-term pain of a few three-cornered contests is a lesser evil than the present situation. |
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The lesser charges include first-degree and second-degree manslaughter as well as criminally negligent homicide. |
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One of the benefits of all this change in France has been the improvement in the wines of many lesser appellations. |
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In the hands of a lesser writer, such a scenario might have smacked drearily of one of those worthy social docu-dramas. |
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Polar bears feed primarily on ringed seals and to a lesser degree on bearded seals and spotted seals. |
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The lesser scaup is a lovely duck indeed, one that, on its own merits, should always be a pleasure to spy on a lake or stretch of sea coast. |
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New Year parties are no lesser occasions for gross merchandising, complete with lucky dips and costly gifts. |
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I can even, to a lesser degree, comprehend stalkers, serial killers, matricide, fratricide, genocide. |
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The storks and lesser spotted eagles are assuredly from every country between Germany and Russia. |
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This includes a scatter of lesser paintings throughout the museums, galleries, and private collections of the world. |
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Later when I was looking at their wedding album, there was another lesser baboon spider in there. |
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As the November elections approach, there are those who will say that one must simply accept the inevitable and vote for the lesser of two evils. |
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This is the head mason, or maistry, with his team of lesser maistries, beldaars and mazdoors. |
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But the power of Carolo Augosto did not hail from the Pope, but instead from his lordship over the Franks, and, to a lesser extent, the Lombards. |
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Large plants were dominantly conifers, followed by lesser amounts of cycads, seed ferns, and ginkgos. |
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Instead, it's how they deal with the stuff that would sink a far lesser talent. |
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They also said the study makes no mention of the value of intelligence collection and the need to reward cooperation with lesser sentences. |
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Details that are often obscured in performances by lesser artists were clearly articulated. |
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It is the piece on the show from which many of the lesser works logically grow. |
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On a night drive expect to see an array of nocturnal animals such as the lesser bushbaby, porcupine and antbears. |
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The lesser topographical names like thorpe, and in Norwegian-dominated areas thwaite, were marginal settlements and clearings. |
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We are also leaving species that have survived fires in the past, including Douglas fir and to a lesser extent, lodgepole pine. |
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Both trials show a trend for a lesser level of performance for cows with restricted time of access to hay. |
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Why should Aboriginal Australians be in a lesser position in respect of proprietorial rights than other Australians? |
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The minuend is the greater number from which the lesser number is subtracted. The subtrahend is the number that is subtracted from the minuend. |
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Traditionally, meat with yellow fat and dark lean has been deemed a lesser quality product at the retail level. |
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Justice Benjamin also did not entertain a lesser charge of accessory after the fact, which he said was introduced too late in the proceedings. |
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There were also a number of other accidents resulting lesser injuries or damage to gliders. |
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But after a day of discussions with their Queen's Counsels, all three pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter. |
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This therapist had suffered from acne as a teen and the spots stayed with her as she got older, albeit to a lesser extent. |
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This is because the giant panda and its cousin, the lesser or red panda, share many characteristics with both bears and raccoons. |
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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. |
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In a lesser artist and person, we might have suspected mere affectation, or an attempt at playing the reluctant genius. |
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Such offences, so the thinking goes, are of a lesser order and should not stigmatize violators. |
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In addition to iguanas, the Iguania include agamids, chameleons and a few lesser known groups. |
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His finest pieces of Meissen and Chelsea porcelain were displayed in the Front Drawing Room, lesser pieces in the rear room and so on. |
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Chub and barbel may also make the same migrations, although to a lesser extent. |
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However many other philosophers and religious figures have used analects to a lesser extent. |
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These terms were agreeable to the Magyar aristocracy, but could not satisfy the revolutionaries or moderates among the lesser nobility. |
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This was also true with the common snipe, lesser yellowlegs, willet, and western sandpiper. |
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To a lesser degree, senior NCOs and squadron and wing commanders who purport to lead airmen are also among the guilty. |
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Original charges of indecent assault and kidnap were dropped and Atkinson was found guilty of a lesser charge of false imprisonment. |
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Undoubtedly some of the relationships found here are reciprocal in nature to a greater or lesser degree. |
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These types grow a bit later on in spring and have a lesser tendency toward sod-formation than English ryegrass and wire grass. |
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The official guest list named at least 70 kings, queens, grand dukes, princes, counts and lesser nobles. |
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Tannins in wine come predominantly from the grapes and to a much lesser extent, from the wood in which it was aged. |
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Near a remote salina, a brackish water hole, the tracks of ocelots and lesser anteaters dimpled the shoreline. |
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What could have been an important but dry history lesson in lesser hands comes alive in this vibrant exploration of the Black Church in Canada. |
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My read of these cases is that the Administration's all-or-nothing strategy is untenable, but that a lesser position may still be defensible. |
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Fructose, aka levulose, found naturally in fruits and, to a lesser extent, vegetables, is the sweetest of all sugars. |
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If the value of the reinstatement or rebuilding exceeds the value of cover, recompense may be limited to value of the lesser. |
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In some cases, the wines produced by these houses are lesser in quality today than, let's say, ten years ago. |
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All around him lesser mortals have given up the true faith to follow the almighty dollar, pound, or Euro. |
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The leaves, and to a lesser extent the flowers, are mildly diuretic, emollient, lenitive, and mildly sedative. |
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No alpinist worth his ice ax wants to be accused of climbing a mountain in lesser style than those who came before. |
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I am not in favour of war but believe that it may be the lesser of two evils. |
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Their service to the king was performed on a rota and they would accompany him everywhere, both as bodyguards and lesser officials. |
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They were sagely advising the president to pick someone dependable of lesser profile who would fly under the radar screen. |
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The result of a lower sale price is a lesser amount financed, and this might enable you to negotiate better terms for your auto loan. |
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But we're having real problems getting the bolls to open, and the leaf off to a lesser extent. |
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The explorers introduced to science Clark's nutcracker and Lewis's woodpecker, as well as the sage grouse and the lesser Canada goose. |
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It accommodates the Arian teaching that Christ was a lesser deity created by God. |
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The lesser of these are the human wizards and magi that can tap into various types of magic. |
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The lesser lights realistically are hoping to lift support for their party, bearing in mind the post-election scramble to form a government. |
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The cell walls of the endosperm are composed largely of mannose, with lesser amounts of glucose, galactose and arabinose. |
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The lesser barques and rowboats that move about in the background are those of Religion. |
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On the other hand, the largest tesserae and the least elegant craftsmanship of the face of Medusa indicate a lesser figural skill. |
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Expression of ribs, and the lunular pit in Bothrocorbula, are used to a lesser extent for species discrimination. |
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But get onto the lesser ring roads and the traffic movement is atrocious at the best of times. |
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The bill extends measures aimed at individuals and to lesser extent corporations. |
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I love going to court parties, but they are rarely formal, and are only for lesser barons and countesses, not official King's court balls. |
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Maggot, caster and luncheon meat are practically universal, but the slightly lesser barbel orientated baits are subject to regional preferences. |
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The tiny structure was an appendage to a larger house Matt had bought, intending to use the lesser quarters as a rental property. |
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He deeply dislikes the implicit idea that a wife is a lesser appendage to her husband. |
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Chambers, who was charged with second-degree murder, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, a lesser, but still very serious charge. |
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The darkling beetle or lesser mealworm, Alphitobius diaperinus, is rapidly becoming more of a nuisance in the poultry operation. |
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The torrid heat of the vintage actually enriched lesser red appellations and endowed them with abundant fruit and body. |
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On June 27, Estrada was arraigned for the lesser charge of perjury. |
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The dominant non-clay mineral composition of the coarse fraction consists of biotite, quartz, and sanidine with lesser amounts of apatite and zircon. |
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Perhaps lesser mortals in this field should wait for the hearings? |
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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. |
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Hale-Rowe pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and testified against Langsner and Egbert. |
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There was no feeling of being second-class citizens or lesser beings. |
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And though it's considered one of their lesser efforts, just having these two names in the credits are enough to set classic movie fans' hearts aflutter. |
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They could have asked that jurors consider a lesser charge, such as manslaughter, in addition to murder, but opted for an all-or-nothing strategy. |
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The 1990 study was concerned not just with reconfirming the importance of tobacco but also with assessing the lesser effects of indoor air pollution of some houses by radon. |
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They froze, to greater and lesser degrees, virtually all of their nuclear programs. |
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This is a method of puncturing a plate with roulettes, punches, and other tools so that modelling is achieved with greater or lesser accumulations of dots. |
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The minister fears that now even lesser frictions could scupper the new agreement. |
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Field studies of performance in nature have shown that anoles utilize their maximal sprinting capabilities to escape predators and, to a lesser extent, to capture prey. |
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Specialties here include the magnificent hooded merganser, the rainbow-coloured wood duck, as well as lesser scaup, bufflehead and common goldeneye. |
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Plain animals such as zebra, greater and lesser kudu, sable and roan antelope, impala and giraffe are found on the plains stretching from the rivers edge. |
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The ear is supplied by the greater auricular, lesser occipital, and auriculotemporal nerves, and the mastoid branches of the lesser occipital nerve. |
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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. |
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Since assets are valued at the lesser of cost and net realisable value, the cost of an asset is normally the same as its carrying amount or value in the balance sheet. |
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However, the company rests this view on the fact that so many more people get their news from the local newspaper, the local news show, and, to a lesser extent, other outlets. |
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Canvasback, redhead, lesser scaup and ruddy are a few of the diver ducks. |
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Stars also have distinctive spectra, determined by their temperature, size, and, to a lesser degree, their chemistry. |
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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. |
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A winter census of a lake in Arizona may include a thousand coots, a thousand gadwalls, a thousand baldpates, and assorted other species in lesser numbers. |
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Following Dacre's death in 1563, Elizabeth alternated the wardenships between lesser nobles like Lords Scrope and Eure or southerners like the earl of Bedford or Lord Hunsdon. |
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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. |
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Raids continued throughout the UK with terror suspects originally arrested by armed police, being rearrested on lesser charges, Scotland Yard said. |
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Most amphibole asbestos was mined as crocidolite and amosite from Precambrian banded ironstones in South Africa and, to a lesser extent, Western Australia. |
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During her tumultuous time as deputy bureau chief in the late eighties, she proposed reassigning many reporters out, to other bureaus and lesser posts. |
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With freedom comes responsibility and the kind of disruption that currently has the recording, and to a lesser extent, film industries in such a lather. |
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Native American communities still maintain their indigenous languages such as Quechua, Aymara, and the lesser known Indian languages spoken by the Amazon groups. |
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Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and to a lesser extent East Anglia, are full of place-names ending in by, thorp, and other Scandinavian elements. |
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Nationwide, it is hoped the scheme will boost the habitats of species such as the grey partridge, twite, natterjack toad, sandbowl snail and lesser silver water beetle. |
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The lower jaw is the primary site of force transmission from the body and jaw muscles to the jaws, in mouth opening and, to a lesser extent, jaw closing. |
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A bid for a greater number of points is higher than a bid for a lesser number, and a no-trump bid is higher than a bid of an equal number of points with a trump suit. |
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Hitler had ordained the Final Solution for lesser races and alien faiths. |
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The water always recedes during low tide, to greater or lesser degrees. |
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These trees will thrive, to a greater or lesser degree, in a number of climates. |
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The Constitution clearly describes three coequal branches of government, not an executive branch and two lesser ones. |
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Until I dived off the beach at Criccieth in north Wales, I had never seen more than a fleeting glimpse of a lesser weever, the most common venomous fish around Britain. |
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The next stop was a small compound that housed lesser pandas, a rare species that has won State-level protection, like their relative the giant panda. |
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People adopted the position that a Yes vote was the lesser of two evils. |
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Now, more vehicles mean lesser space therefore more jams, higher fuel consumption and more pollution as congestion forces people to travel in low gear. |
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Local leaderships and administrators everywhere were expected to work in the local language, which implied a lesser role for Russians outside the Russian Republic. |
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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. |
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Both the Central Powers and the Allies used aircraft on strategic bombing raids, targeting enemy industries and to a lesser extent enemy civilians. |
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And a lesser man, like myself, would have sprinted to the airport and hopped the next flight to Miami. |
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Once again, the citizens of goma may end up having to place their hope in the lesser of two evils. |
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They have substantially lost not only their influence as a religious elite but also their functions as jurists, judges, legal guardians, and to a lesser degree jurisconsults. |
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Since the 1980s, Protestant religions have been attracting more followers, especially Evangelists and Adventists, and to a lesser degree, Mormons. |
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Most of the shellfish remains in the Florida coast middens were oyster shells while shells of clams, knobbed whelks and periwinkles were present in lesser amounts. |
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Is the list mainly a catalogue of wayward institutions that, depending on their own histories and practices, have given greater or lesser heed to the AAUP's remonstrances? |
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They also showed trends toward losing lesser amounts of body weight. |
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Well, I'm talking about the fact that we have a voting system where people are conditioned to believe they have to cast their vote for the lesser of two evils. |
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This greatly reduces our available choices, and, in the end, we are not necessarily choosing the best candidate, we are choosing the lesser of two evils. |
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But here, Jerseys, Ayrshires, and Holsteins cross genes, each lending their better characteristics and canceling out the lesser traits of the others. |
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If you must decide between the lesser of two evils, just stall. |
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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. |
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He showed no signs of jet lag, again something lesser mortals complain of. |
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Strong flights of Ross's geese and lesser and greater snows are predicted, with high numbers of juvies. |
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The present analysis examines the occurrence of the indirect evidence verbal paradigm in Khanty and, to a lesser degree, Mansi. |
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The volunteers found grasshopper warbler, lesser redpole, chough and kingfisher. |
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On this list are the song thrush, starling, sparrow, skylark, lesser redpoll and the linnet. |
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Kimberlite and to a lesser extent lamprophyres host the majority of the worlds known diamond deposits. |
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First description of malignant retrobulbar and intracranial teratoma in a lesser kestrel. |
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That was British poet William Wordsworth's way of saying that the lesser celandine is one hardy little spreading perennial. |
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It is also interesting that all crimes committed against Romans had lesser fines than other social classes. |
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The Celebes pig and, to a lesser degree, the anoa were the focus of the Wana's large game interests. |
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The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. |
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The simpler the brand, the lesser the likelihood that it will blotch and be unsightly and hard to read. |
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The former were catered for both by liquor stores and, to a lesser extent, by the bottle shops of hotels. |
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Next remove the middle portion of the lesser omentum, and feel for the coeliac axis. |
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Like any common or garden racist would seek to do to someone he or she deems as different, or lesser. |
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It would be composed and dispatched overnight by lesser members of the flattersome company. |
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The English of neighbouring New Zealand has to a lesser degree become an influential standard variety of the language. |
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To greater or lesser extent, agencies honor their own precedent to ensure consistent results. |
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Popular unrest occurred in Edinburgh, as mentioned above, with some lesser but still substantial riots in Glasgow. |
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He also used lesser known writers, such as Fulgentius, Julian of Eclanum, Tyconius, and Prosper of Aquitaine. |
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Across Ireland, there is significant interest in the English and, to a lesser extent, Scottish soccer leagues. |
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It accelerates soil warming and water evaporation in spring because of the lesser quantity of residues on the soil surface. |
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This distinction between full citizenship and other, lesser relationships goes back to antiquity. |
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Roman brick was almost invariably of a lesser height than modern brick, but was made in a variety of different shapes and sizes. |
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The culprits of lesser crimes were brought to court by the city constables and would face a fine. |
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They entrenched themselves, the larger body at Appledore, Kent, and the lesser, under Hastein, at Milton, also in Kent. |
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The Duke of Bedford died on 14 September 1435 and was replaced by a lesser man. |
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Although the power of a king is lesser in degree than an emperor, it is the similar in specie. |
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They were unpaid, which, in comparison with modern standards, meant a lesser tax bill to pay for a police force. |
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Most Rumpers were gentry, though there was a higher proportion of lesser gentry and lawyers than in previous parliaments. |
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However, over 110 of its 140 members were lesser gentry or of higher social status. |
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Its descendant languages are still spoken to a greater or lesser extent in Cornwall, Wales, and Brittany. |
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Beneath them, lesser nobles had authority over smaller areas of land and fewer people. |
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However a tidal range greater than that of the Severn is recorded from the lesser known Ungava Bay in Canada. |
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It is replenished by the rivers Brathay, Rothay, Trout Beck, Cunsey Beck and several other lesser streams. |
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Chalk aquifers and to a lesser extent winterbourne streams supply much of the water required by the surrounding settlements. |
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Coach services running through Sheffield are operated by National Express and to a lesser extent Megabus, part of the Stagecoach Group. |
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In the 1950s there was large scale immigration from South Asia and to a lesser extent from Poland. |
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There was a wave of slackness, and young men preferred to remain lob-lolly lesser Hindus than to follow their fathers' stern creed. |
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However, unlike the ten traditional branches, these are all controversial to a greater or lesser degree. |
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Vertical sequence within each group does not imply a measure of greater or lesser similarity. |
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To a lesser extent, Wicca also drew upon folk magic and the practices of cunning folk. |
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In the camp of a full legion he held the rank of consul or proconsul but officers of lesser ranks might command. |
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All other subjects are of lesser importance, including that of imagination and that of appearance and reality. |
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Sylvie and Bruno came out in two volumes and is considered a lesser work, although it has remained in print for over a century. |
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He was often able to prevent the appointment of ministers or commanders he disliked, or sideline them into lesser offices. |
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Boards of lesser quality often have the numbers printed directly on the board. |
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However, England's main rivals would now be Australia, New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, France. |
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The culture of the Isle of Man is often promoted as being influenced by its Celtic, and to a lesser extent its Norse, origins. |
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Land, for instance, was granted by the Crown to lords in exchange for feudal services and they, in turn, granted the land to lesser lords. |
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Sheep, goats and pigs were also a valuable resource but had a lesser role in Irish pastoralism. |
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In 1716 Townshend had been removed from the important post of Northern Secretary and put in the lesser office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. |
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The most consistent practitioners of free trade have been Switzerland, the Netherlands, and to a lesser degree Belgium. |
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World War I weakened the strongest of the Imperial Powers, Great Britain, but also strengthened the United States and, to a lesser extent, Japan. |
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During the 12th and 13th centuries, Poland became a destination for German, Flemish and to a lesser extent Scottish, Danish and Walloon migrants. |
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Dublin, London and Birmingham were also affected, albeit to a lesser degree than Northern Ireland itself. |
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A further separation was made in 1815 with the creation of a lesser Jury Court to allow certain civil cases to be tried by jury. |
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Executive power rests with the Cabinet of Singapore, led by the Prime Minister and, to a much lesser extent, the President. |
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Mining, especially of gypsum and salt and to a lesser extent silica, peat and barite, is also a significant sector. |
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Livestock also includes small numbers of cattle, and in lesser numbers pigs and horses. |
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This failed so miserably that he accepted the lesser post of secretary and chaplain to the Earl of Berkeley, one of the Lords Justice of Ireland. |
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Modern classicism showed a lesser interest in naturalism and a greater interest in formal stylization. |
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The economy is dependent on government spending and, to a lesser extent, assistance from foreign donors. |
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William Wallace was a member of the lesser nobility, but little is definitely known of his family history or even his parentage. |
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In lesser numbers guillemot and razorbills are occasionally seen at this outlet to the North Sea. |
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Other planned areas, but in a lesser degree, are Punta Pacifica and the former Canal Zone. |
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Scottish emigration to the United States followed, to a lesser extent, during the twentieth century, when Scottish heavy industry declined. |
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Previous to the Union of 1707 there were eight total officers of state, four great officers and four lesser officers. |
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By contrast, a person who had been acquitted of a lesser offence could not be tried for an aggravated form even if new evidence became available. |
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Voluntary manslaughter in some jurisdictions is a lesser included offense of murder. |
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Many of the lesser Welsh princes who had supported Llywelyn now hastened to make peace with Edward. |
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Substantial quantities of gold, copper, and lead were extracted, along with lesser amounts of zinc and silver. |
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Near contemporaries described his dignity as offended when lesser men were promoted to high positions. |
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The brothers are recorded as cooperating closely against the rulers of the remaining lesser kingdoms of Wales. |
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As such, the priory came to represent the Benedictine ideals espoused by the Cluniac reforms as smaller, lesser houses of Benedictines of Cluny. |
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In all cases a parliament will issue primary legislation, with lesser bodies granted powers to issue delegated legislation. |
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He needs to identify the crucial indispensable values to his life and distinguish them from lesser values and nonvalues. |
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Except for the nose candy, I'm addicted to all of them, to a greater or lesser degree. |
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Chanderpaul's obduracy might have broken lesser men, but Panesar more than matched him for relentlessness. |
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Feathers continued to be used as lesser royal badges, by Elizabeth I among others, until the end of the century. |
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Further afield, the club has a rivalry with Bristol City, known as the Severnside derby, and to a lesser extent, Bristol Rovers. |
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There is also a lesser rivalry with Welsh neighbours Newport County due to the proximity of the two Welsh cities. |
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To a lesser extent, Swansea City's other rivals are Bristol City, Bristol Rovers and Newport County. |
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Hamlin oranges are the main cultivar planted, and from this crop the rest of the United States and to a lesser extent Europe gets orange juice. |
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Among lesser phyla of invertebrates are the Hemichordata, or acorn worms, and the Chaetognatha, or arrow worms. |
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It has also been referred to as the lesser fin whale because it somewhat resembles the fin whale. |
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West Indian manatees eat up to 60 different species of plants, as well as fish and small invertebrates to a lesser extent. |
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The same was also true about the Danish military, though to a far lesser extent. |
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The British immigrants are concentrated in the western regional units of Chania and Rethymno and to a lesser extent in Heraklion and Lasithi. |
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Oughtness, may I suggest, consists in the power which a greater good has over a lesser good in compelling our choices. |
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Inuit people living in the region hunt mainly for food and, to a lesser extent, commerce. |
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There is sometimes a tradition of smashing a glass used for a loyal toast, so that no lesser toast can be made with it. |
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To a lesser extent, Phased array radars have been used in Weather Surveillance. |
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Except for Native Americans, the North Dakota population has a lesser percentage of minorities than in the nation as a whole. |
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The main drivers of population growth are immigration and, to a lesser extent, natural growth. |
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The lesser prisoners taken at Tinchebray were released, but Robert and several other leading nobles were imprisoned indefinitely. |
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Many of the inhabitants of Northumbria were Danes, who had enjoyed lesser taxation than in other parts of England. |
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Speedway is popular in central and northern Europe and to a lesser extent in Australia and North America. |
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However, as food stores improved and women took on lesser roles in providing food for the family, they increasingly became subordinate to men. |
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These cultures overlapped to a greater or lesser extent, and evolved over time. |
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They are raised for their meat, hides, and antlers and, to a lesser extent, for milk and transportation. |
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The secondary line to Husum and the lesser lines to Kappeln and Satrup no longer exist. |
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Northern Germania was far less developed, possessed fewer villages, and had little food surplus and thus a far lesser capacity for tribute. |
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Runes are popular in Germanic neopaganism, and to a lesser extent in other forms of Neopaganism and New Age esotericism. |
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It seems that the mortgage scheme was simply a way of making local notables participate, albeit in a lesser role, in imperial benevolence. |
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The greatest chieftains of the 12th and 13th century started amassing great wealth, and subsuming lesser dominions. |
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Other animals used to a lesser extent for this purpose include sheep, goats, camels, buffaloes, yaks, reindeer, horses and donkeys. |
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These lesser functionaries performed clerical and technical tasks for government agencies. |
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There have been substantial improvements in access to water supply, and to a lesser extent to sanitation, over the past fifteen years. |
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While the nobles held the titles, those individuals of lesser breeding did the real work. |
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Despite the apparent lesser status of the position, a Cihuacoatl could prove both influential and powerful, as in the case of Tlacaelel. |
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The ultimate judicial authority laid in hands of the Huetlatoani, who had the right to appoint lesser judges. |
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Chinese and a lesser number of Japanese came to Lima and established themselves in the Barrios Altos neighborhood near downtown Lima. |
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The modern usage of terms for mail armour is highly contested in popular and, to a lesser degree, academic culture. |
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To a lesser extent, a noun's animacy or humanness may add another layer of complexity. |
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It also plays a lesser phonetic role in Cantonese, unlike other varieties of Chinese. |
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The studs have their surface punctulated, as if set all over with other studs infinitely lesser. |
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The majority of people living in Australia and to a lesser extent, New Zealand work in mining, electrical and manufacturing sectors also. |
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On 5 May 1761 he married Sarah Clitherow, a member of a family of lesser gentry from Middlesex. |
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From 1702 the Judge of the court was also authorised to appoint deputies to hear lesser matters or to deputise during his absence. |
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Grand theft is contrasted with petty theft, theft that is of smaller magnitude or lesser seriousness. |
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In such a case a man cannot claim that he is choosing the lesser of two evils. |
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On 23 October 1963, four days after becoming Prime Minister, Home disclaimed his earldom and associated lesser peerages. |
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There is a high degree of standardization of the tooling used with CNC milling machines, and a lesser degree with manual milling machines. |
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China has emerged as a major producer and consumer, as has India to a lesser extent. |
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But also to a lesser extent British interests were hurt in the West Indies and Canada that had depended on that trade. |
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Different branches of Taoism often have differing pantheons of lesser deities, where these deities reflect different notions of cosmology. |
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On the roof, a large compass pointer and list of peaks identify the greater and lesser landmarks in the magnificent panorama. |
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B roads are numbered routes in Great Britain of lesser importance than A roads. |
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The northern arc begins with Great Gable's lesser sibling, Green Gable, and Brandreth, before turning north west above the shore of Buttermere. |
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Great Gable and its lesser companion Green Gable stand at the head of Ennerdale, with the walkers' pass of Sty Head to their backs. |
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There is a lesser, or unclassified, road along the western shore connecting the villages of Grange and Portinscale. |
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Wainwright himself later relented and included these lesser hills in a supplementary volume, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. |
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However, the wool is also used for spinning and knitting of clothing, though on a lesser scale to its other uses. |
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In the UK, a lesser divide exists between the microbreweries and the large companies, as breweries of all sizes exist to fill the gap. |
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Chhaang is consumed by ethnically Nepalese and Tibetan people and, to a lesser degree, by the neighboring nations of India and Bhutan. |
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For periods there could be peace, before a lesser son allied himself with a chieftain and started a new conflict. |
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An ace comedic turn that, in lesser hands, would come off as one-note. |
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Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought. |
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Additionally, the internal nasal valve is not narrowed and the thick intact ULCs are stable and at a lesser risk for buckling or avulsing. |
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The middle clastic interval is characterized by shale, siltstone, wacke, and lesser sandstone and breccia, and is tuffaceous in places. |
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Other species threatened by the fires include the Peloponnese wall lizard, lesser kestrel, Corsican red deer, and eastern imperial eagle. |
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I suspect the Brits used to behead people for lesser breaches of protocol. |
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The whitethroat, reed warbler and lesser whitethroat I saw at the weekend may be the last I see until April. |
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Windbreaks were once very common not only around farmsteads but often to a lesser degree between pastures and fields. |
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It might be guessed that the three initially appeared together, but Collingwood, and Jack Tar to a lesser extent, were dropped as time went on. |
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Known reputed uses include lovage as an aphrodisiac, foxglove for heart disease and a yellow woodland flower, lesser celandine, for haemorrhoids. |
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Very soon, you should be seeing the pale yellow of primroses and the sunshine shades of lesser celandines in woods and hedgerows. |
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So far this year, twitchers have been lucky enough to see a North American lesser scaup duck in Cardiff Bay. |
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My bag consisted of five lesser scaup, a bufflehead and two Barrow's goldeneyes. |
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On plain roentgenogram a radio-opaque mass extending from the iliac fossa to the lesser trochanter was seen. |
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As it is shown in figure, femoral bone is composed of head, neck, greater and lesser trochanter, body, medial and lateral condyles. |
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The lesser yellowlegs remained on Anglesey's Alaw estuary to the end of last week as did the rose-coloured starling in a Nefyn garden. |
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Watching the lesser known numbers being played and then looking at the audience, lipsynching is quite nice. |
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It was lovely, with lots of activities organised at this lesser known local attraction. |
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We photographed a female accompanying two female lesser scaups on 29 March 2006 on a small canal 1 km W La Venta. |
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Try plants such as water forget-me-not, lesser spearwort and marsh marigold, planted in aquatic plant pots, which have mesh sides. |
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Of course, the brain drain phenomena also affects India and China, but to a lesser extent. |
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From there we headed north to, arguably, the even more historic and in the UK, lesser known city of Mechelen. |
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Cabbage worms, a lesser problem, can be combated with the caterpillar-destroying bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis, alone or with row covers. |
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But it was the lesser known pastime of microlight flying which I got a chance to try out in the skies above Gwynedd last week. |
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Edwin van der Sar's miskick, a lesser player may have panicked and blasted over, but not Giggs. |
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The dominant minerals are pyrite, tetrahedrite, sulfosalt, sphalerite with lesser galena and chalcopyrite. |
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