Sentence examples for in a lesser form from inspiring English sources

As McDonough and Braungart put it, such products are "upcycled" rather than "downcycled"—their derisive term for conventional recycling, which often means little more than reconstituting a material in a lesser form.

Two existed before in a lesser form and three are ones that they never had to deal with in the 20th Century.

I am still suffering from delayed shock and will in a lesser form, I think, continue to suffer for the rest of my life.

The agencies are on borrowed time because the California Supreme Court last month upheld Gov. Jerry Brown's elimination of their funding but struck down a compromise that would have let them survive in a lesser form.

But when Château Mouton Rothschild was raised to First Growth in 1973, it was done with a lesser form of government proclamation called an arreté.

Pichação gangs do not consider themselves graffitists at all, since colorful graffiti — in their view at least — is a lesser form of expression, easy to do on street level and often co-opted by the commercial art scene.

Futures brokers don't have any quasi-governmental insurance protection, but at least they have a "segregation" of assets regime in a bankruptcy filing, which is a lesser form of protection.

But, as DPKO's assessment makes clear, there is currently no sufficient plan should such violence — or even a lesser form — emerge in Burundi.

At the climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009, nations failed to write a treaty though they did sign up to a lesser form of agreement, in which the world's biggest emitters – developed and developing – set out targets to curb their carbon by 2020.

However, campaigners fear, due to briefings in the press, that she may announce a lesser form of inquiry, such as a review of evidence by a single lawyer.

But in practice, victims who are addicts get a lesser form of justice.