Sentence examples for lesser step from inspiring English sources

Italy and France, wrangling over a huge influx of immigrants from North Africa, have been pushing for a lesser step — the ability to temporarily close borders in an emergency.

Appointment of an emergency financial manager would be aimed at avoiding some worse fate — bankruptcy or even default — but it would almost certainly draw anger from some Detroiters, who firmly believe that municipal leaders can repair their own city and who had expressed dismay at the earlier, lesser step of an oversight board.

In patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), the T2* signal increase during post-occlusive reactive hyperaemia is a lesser step and delayed.

Lesser steps might at least rationalize existing lines of command.

Yet on some lesser steps to address immigration, Republicans may decide cooperation is "the better part of valor," Mr. Podesta said.

Doris Meissner of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington notes that the last two major relaxations of immigration laws, in 1965 and 1990, both occurred at times of low unemployment.If there is to be no grand bargain, lesser steps may be taken.

But lesser steps — a renewed ban on the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips, a requirement for background checks of buyers at gun shows, and the appointment, after six years of Republican obstruction, of a director for the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives — are, for the first time in nearly a generation, imaginable.

Nicholas Hilliard, counsel for the inquest, asked him: "Looking back at it now, do you think it was strictly necessary to fire your weapon three times or do you think their could be other, lesser, steps that could have been taken?" AZ15 replied: "I still maintain my actions on the day and I stand by them".

However, the sequences suggested by purity criterion have lesser steps than the sequences suggested by SSC criterion and the purity algorithm spends lesser time and computational resources than SSC algorithm, then the use of purity criterion is more recommendable for selection of purification sequences.

It was a good training ground for what was to come, with lesser lights stepping up.

But for seasoned travelers with a more adventurous streak, I say go for the lesser known step-sister.