Sentence examples for lesser evils from inspiring English sources

The emails urge readers to "rail against 'heterophobia' and claim lesser evils than [Safe Schools] have caused civilisations to end".

Advocates of impartial justice are faced, as they have been throughout the morally tainted history of this tribunal, with a choice of lesser evils.

This cascade of money has brought with it a dismal retinue of lesser evils: prizes, fellowships, conferences, festivals and, worst of all, the fatal seduction of unfettered applause.

For Pakistani human-rights advocates, the drone war in Waziristan poses a problem of lesser evils: which is worse, American bombing or Taliban revolution?

Power wrote of Sergio Vieira de Mello, "He started out as a humanitarian," but, after years of contending with crises around the world, "he had become a diplomat and politician, comfortable weighing lesser evils".

It's no surprise that most choose not to think about it and others strain to find justifications for slightly lesser evils like "free range", "organic", cruelty-free and other "happy meat" marketing buzzwords.

The lesser evil, as it were.

That is the "lesser evil".

Assad is not in any sense a "lesser evil".

I think B.J.P. [Bharatiya Janata Party] is a lesser evil though.

Instead, we have become only the lesser evil — which is still evil.