Sentence examples for be of lesser force from inspiring English sources

These seem also to be of lesser force today than they may have been in the past.

Freeh said new training would emphasize use of lesser force wherever feasible.

These last two are of lesser importance.

Just as it is possible to enumerate the proper ends of violence, so can we be precise about the means to those ends -- calibrating the tolerable level of destructiveness in the case of retaliation against an aggressor: "The violent response must be of equal or lesser force than the injury -- making due allowance for the ambiguities, mistakes and passions of urgency".

These would be of significantly lesser value.

Film adaptations were of a lesser quality; the first Net Force novel became a TV movie starring Scott Bakula in 1999, and the first Op Center a miniseries with Harry Hamlin in 1995.

There should be period of lesser activity.

All of these sexual acts are of the lesser sort.

The satellite has already detected more than 100 other flares of somewhat lesser force.

In Syria, the Assad government is the primary opponent of ISIL, with the "good" rebels a lesser force who are opposed to both.

The agreement follows a 116-page report the Civil Rights Division issued last year accusing the Police Department of systematically "using force, including deadly force, when no force or lesser force was called for," unnecessarily injuring hundreds of people and killing "numerous others".