Sentence examples for a lesser status from inspiring English sources

The Palestinians might then approach the General Assembly for a lesser status as a nonmember state.

"There is no doubt that civil unions enjoy a lesser status in our society than marriage," the court said.

When the Defense of Marriage Act crumbles and our committed relationships aren't relegated to a lesser status, a diminished dignity.

If the Security Council votes on statehood, the United States is expected to veto it; in the event of a General Assembly vote, which would confer a lesser status, the U.S. would be in a "lonely minority," says Coll.

The most remote ancestors, the founders of the chiefly lineage, are the most important gods; more recent ancestors and those of related but collateral lines have a lesser status.

His feast is given a lesser status in the calendar of the Church of England; a holy day of obligation for English Roman Catholics until the late 18th century, it is now an optional memorial for local observance.

Olson and Boies must also convince the Court that Proposition 8 violates the Constitution's Equal Protection clause by assigning gay or lesbian citizens a different, lesser status with regard to marriage rights.

Generally, this is a marriage between a man of high birth and a woman of lesser status (such as a daughter of a low-ranked noble family or a commoner).

Presumably, if you were a person of lesser status or charm, you might be left to wait there for some time.

Nor, he made clear, was it even certain whether the basis existed for convening another "primates' meeting"—a global gathering of slightly lesser status which would normally take place every couple of years.

He persuaded her to join Columbia's faculty as an anesthesiologist, then a position of far lesser status.