Barbagli et al. (2003) suggest that changes in the kind of ceremony may be read in two different ways: as a sign of the lesser appeal of marriage as an institution or, on the contrary, as a new capacity of marriage to survive to the secularization process.
For those more interested in history (and a drink), there's a lesser-known appeal: Room 13 is the Old Chicago Inn's own 1920s-era speakeasy, tucked into the garden level and open only on Friday and Saturday nights.
"They don't want to be stuck with a lesser sanction and the appeals court affirming Judge Brinkema's ruling," he said.
The verdict against five big tobacco companies, including R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, is likely to be overturned (or a lesser sum awarded) on appeal.See article: Tobacco and the lawIn another blow, the European Commission said that it intends to take civil action against American tobacco companies.
What he did wasn't illegal, and Mr Weiner's clumsy appeals are a lesser moral offence than many of those known to have been committed by sitting members of Congress.
Lesser conservatives couch their homophobic appeals in word games and dog-whistle phrases, but Santorum just comes right out and compares homosexuality to bestiality, then says gays are "afraid of the truth" when they get mad.
Neither appealed, but the lesser of two evils was to travel to Santa Marta, four hours west of Maicao.
But there's no denying that his message appealed to the lesser angels of the American psyche.
Nevertheless, Luther and, to a lesser degree, Calvin and Wesley are recurrently appealed to in various ways as doctrinal mentors in their respective traditions.
This Court affirmed, although "it seems apparent that a majority of the Court was unable to agree on any common ground for the conclusion that an appeal of a lesser offense destroyed a defense of former jeopardy on a greater offense for which the defendant had already been acquitted". Green v. United States, 355 U.S. 184, 187, 78 S.Ct.
