Sentence examples for lesser force from inspiring English sources
"lesser force" is correct and can be used in written English
This phrase is often used to indicate something weaker than what is expected or desired. For example, "The troops responded with a lesser force than was anticipated."
The satellite has already detected more than 100 other flares of somewhat lesser force.
Accepting that it was a lesser force while he grimly hung in there must have been a spiritual blow.
Find solace in history: when Robbie Williams left Take That there was no apocalypse (though they were, I'll grant you, a somewhat lesser force in consequence).
Cristofori achieved that effect by replacing the plucking mechanism of the harpsichord with a hammer action capable of striking the strings with greater or lesser force.
Soccer, Britain's most successful sporting export worldwide, remained a lesser force in Australia, arriving in earnest through English educators after the other football codes were implanted.
Every one of Macmillan's words remains as true and powerful today as in 1962 – except that, first, the six are now the 27; and second, Britain is a much lesser force in world affairs, making the problem he describes more acute.
Then he asked someone to snap a family portrait, tears welling in his eyes, thankful for his greater forces up above and his lesser forces on the field.
Later in the locker room, Kraft spoke less of "greater forces" and more of lesser forces, i.e. the Patriots' maligned defense and inconsistent running game, which had far more to do with their result Sunday than expected.
American soldiers will be preparing for global engagements like the gulf war, even if that means that the world's greatest fighting machine never fights, while lesser forces can face the perils of peacekeeping around the globe.
Comparison of wire alloys indicated that TMA wires produce lesser forces and are softer than SS wires.
"Set against headwinds which would have blown lesser forces off course, BP has continued its steady, if treacherous, recovery," said Richard Hunter from Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers.
