The phrase "a lesser consideration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that is of lower importance or priority compared to other factors or issues.
Example: "While the budget is important, employee satisfaction is a lesser consideration in this decision-making process."
Alternatives: "a minor factor" or "a secondary concern".
The welfare of the Cambodian people was a lesser consideration for them, but ought not to have been for Sihanouk.
This policy is so flawed that one must conclude that those committed to it are not seeking social or economic efficiency, but have an ideological commitment to marketisation – with social and economic progress as a lesser consideration.
While disrupting the workflow of the (small) hardcore of users who rely on Twitter to be a reliably dense and largely self-manageable digital information network in an increasingly misinformation saturated and algorithmically controlled world is clearly a lesser consideration.
Function may be the foundation of good design, but to act as if beauty is a lesser, ignoble consideration for designers of useful objects is to deny the artistry and imagination inherent to the work they do.
Implacable, purged of all need or desire for lesser considerations or emotions by his loss, he gave us a man and a performance boiled down to its very essence.
But campaign officials and outside political consultants said that Mr. McCain's willingness to engage Mr. Romney directly appeared to stem from a combination of tactical, political and, to a lesser extent, personal considerations.
The main differences in included studies on statins were from eligibility criteria regarding observational studies and, to a lesser extent, the non-consideration of trials published after the search date of each meta-analysis (table 5).
Elimination from use and substitution of a carcinogen by a lesser hazard are the first considerations in the hierarchy of control.
That possibility has outraged prosecutors and some national abortion rights groups, which say that consideration of such a lesser charge could encourage more violence against abortion providers.
This potential consideration of ankle fractures as a lesser injury may be due to a perception that ankle fractures are localised in nature and have a high success rate of fracture reduction and union with established treatment protocols [ 9, 15].
To a lesser extent they thought that unavailability or non-consideration of patients' status and co-morbidities were other factors in the way of reaching such decisions.
