When laid off from paper route, got lesser paper route.
All the same, there are dedicated arsonists who get lesser conflagrations going.
Doormen, messengers, cleaning ladies and other blue-collar staff got lesser awards.
The end of the war in Iraq and the passage of health-care reform get lesser billing.
The men reached deals with the prosecution and got lesser sentences while she received the death sentence.
It would get lesser savings by requiring electronic transactions for administrative tasks and opening an approval process for generic biological medicines.
But in a country where slogans like "chicks dig the long ball" underscore the popularity of power, Suzuki's talent for getting lesser hits — like his major-league-leading 449 infield hits since 2001 — can be underappreciated.
She is further damaged because the law encourages members of a drug conspiracy to rat on each other to get lesser sentences; knowing nothing, she has no information to trade.
But in order to get there, over the past few decades, it seems to me that Pynchon has had to get lesser (though still characteristic) works out of his system – as if Joyce had handed in a few Flann O'Brien-style farces between his monuments.
According to Mr. Datta's lawyers, who declined to make him or his family available for interviews, their client is a legitimate businessman who was entrapped by other drug-connected defendants to get lesser sentences for their own money-laundering schemes.
