Sentence examples for lesser branch from inspiring English sources

She was born into a lesser branch of the noble and highly influential Fujiwara family and was well educated, having learned Chinese (generally the exclusive sphere of males).

The larger branch, the Xi, bends to the south and forms the western border of the delta, while a lesser branch, the Foshan, flows eastward into the delta itself.

Yoshitoshi Satake, president of Toyo Engineering Corporation is a descendant of the East Satake, a lesser branch.

Some medics still treat psychiatry as a lesser branch of medicine and some mental disorders are dismissed as "not real illnesses".

A lesser branch was founded by Tsugaru Nobuzumi, the son of the first Kuroishi-Tsugaru family head; this branch remained hatamoto through the end of the Edo period.

"I'm not one of those conservatives who says that the judicial branch is a lesser branch of government, and it's time for the court to step in, because both political branches, both parties, are out of control and they think they can do whatever they want," Klayman said.

It meant that the Fujiwara daughters were empresses, that their grandsons and nephews were emperors, and that members of their family, including its lesser branches, received all the patronage.

However, these tubular structures appeared to be lesser branching than those found on all DC-ECM coated surfaces (Supporting Information Figure S6c f), in particular on DC-ECM-QK.

The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups.

The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups (1859: 120) [ 2].

A walk down the aisles of Mr. Albaugh's collection reveals lesser-known branches of the Chevrolet family tree.