Sentence examples for lesser states from inspiring English sources

As Ghana grew richer it extended its political control, strengthening its position as an entrepôt by absorbing lesser states.

It was Cheney who, recognising its impotence against a heavily armed nuclear power, launched the argument that a smaller version could be of value against lesser states.

Love has a way of being disappointed, and that "led to the worst sensations jealousy, rage, self-loathing to all theself-loathing to".

It is Anna whose florid, overheated jealousy, fed on fantasies of Vronsky's infidelity, dooms her to the womanish "lesser states" that Kitamura's narrator so dreads.

It is my suggestion that we force people on welfare to get off their duffs, roll up their sleeves, and build some pyramids for us- -preferably in some of the lesser states that have no tourist attractions.

To the south there were a number of lesser states, each with a chief who, like the ruler of Bunyoro-Kitara, combined priestly functions with those of a secular leader.

If we don't cooperate, we'll all be in a lesser state of the world.

Meanwhile, in California, Gov. Gray Davis Gray Davis, lesser state officials and the state's U.S. senators are calling for criminal investigations and billions in refunds from the energy industry.

Sadness [Tristitiae, or "pain"], on the other hand, is the passage to a lesser state of perfection, also occasioned by a thing outside us.

This calls for further investigation but could indicate that unlike pastoralists who were either food secure or extremely food insecure, agro-pastoral households went into a lesser state of food insecurity (e.g. moderate) which fact was also reflected during focus group discussions.

As Lesser stated, "If the series did not work for poor children, the entire project would fail".