Sentence examples for kept lesser from inspiring English sources

That also was invaluable to his teams, since he kept lesser starters off the hill and allowed the bullpen to rest.

Powell managed to carve out a small, diamond-like space for herself in New York's literary scene despite the kind of hardships that might have kept lesser writers from their work.

Mainly, Mr. Anagnost's choice of music was hit or miss, and his decision, in several cases, to conduct excerpted movements rather than full scores kept lesser-known works from getting a fair hearing.

Although Symbolic also keeps lesser items in stock mid-to-high stock mid-to-hightible Bugattistock mid-to-highand Mercedes, for example–it is the boutique end of the business that makes hearts racollectible

In his autobiography, Zinsser speaks of Nicolle's qualities as a scientist: Nicolle was one of those men who achieve their success by long preliminary thought, before an experiment is formulated, rather than by the frantic and often ill-conceived experimental activities that keep lesser men in ant-like agitation... Nicolle did relatively few and simple experiments.

This all could have been too ethereal if the rhythm section had kept a lesser focus.

The harshness of these volcanic soils, therefore, kept many lesser known grapes in production.

Kings and nobles chased stags; foxhunting was just something to keep the "lesser gentry" busy.

And his assurance that "democracy itself" will keep a lesser evil from becoming a "greater evil" should ease our collective conscience when we remember that "either we fight evil with evil or we succumb".

With a solid half in support of a total gun ban, the poll's findings will probably embolden D.C. politicians and gun-control advocates, who are fighting to keep intact lesser firearm restrictions that gun-rights advocates are contesting in federal courts.

The mural granulosa cells, located in the basal membrane of the follicles, keep in lesser close contact with oocyte due to the distance.