Sentence examples for lesser offer from inspiring English sources

"Instead of refusing the lesser offer, he used it to the company's advantage and took it," he said.

D'Antoni walked away and later accepted a four-year, $24 million offer to coach the Knicks, after turning down a lesser offer from the Chicago Bulls.

Steve Smith, a Giant stalwart and an Eli Manning security blanket, is the latest talented free agent to join the Eagles after he rejected a lesser offer from the Giants.

They could not sign Cliff Lee, who took a lesser offer from the Philadelphia Phillies, and will choose from Bartolo Colon, Freddy Garcia, Sergio Mitre and Ivan Nova for the last two spots in their rotation.

His instructions were not to bid unless he absolutely had to: if the paintings were not sold in the auction, the museum would be able to make a lesser offer afterwards.

The Mariners have said they have not made the compensation a competition between the teams, but they have very little reason to take a lesser offer from the Mets.

Their past form - releasing three Hamfatter albums to date, all on a shoe-string - together with their offer of 20% of all future album sales (ALL albums, not just their fourth) is enough to tempt the wily Dragons into making lesser offers, and then attempting to out-manoeuvre each other.

After twice spurning lesser offers from Sterling Software, Informatics General of Woodland Hills has agreed to a $135-million 135-milliond from takeover smaller Dallas company, executives of bidh froms said Friday.

Thus, leading banks promote longer hours as if this were a point of difference, even though lesser competitors offer the same service.

Just as crucial, even some of the lesser selections offer something for viewers to consider, if only an aesthetic or a worldview to argue against, or maybe hate.

If you want to get highfalutin about it, this strain started in the 19th century when Ralph Waldo Emerson and other lesser lights offered audiences recipes for self-improvement.