Sentence examples for lesser sums from inspiring English sources

In 2003, Libya accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, agreed to pay $2.7 billion in compensation and later offered lesser sums for other acts of terrorism.

Dick Cavett assisted in the complicated drawing of the winning ticket and the awarding of lesser sums to the 14 other finalists.

Other beneficiaries to receive lesser sums include Rowan University, Camden County College, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center.

As in every accounting of debt, there are greater and lesser sums of accounts receivable, and the biggest by far that day was the money still owed to the residents of the Roslyn school district.

The vast majority of deposits are thought to have been made in US dollars, with a much smaller amount in sterling and lesser sums in euros and Canadian dollars.

Any attempt to collect more than a small share of these or the lesser sums owed by other countries would subject Eastern Europe to financial serfdom for the next generation; a plight that would be particularly bitter since the debt is a legacy of communist mismanagement, over which the public had no control.The debts should be reduced cleanly, not in a long-drawn-out battle.

But NatWest have said they will consider a lesser sum in final settlement.

Mr. Biscotti got a lesser sum, $31,041, for operations that he and wife had supposedly undergone, prosecutors say.

Mr Schuller even sued his former ministry for $5m for copyright infringement and breach of contract he was awarded a lesser sum.

And is that a greater or lesser sum than this subway equation: take the temperature of a subway station (approximately a hundred and fifty degrees) and subtract the temperature of an overly air-conditioned subway car (approximately fifty-five degrees) and then add twenty energy units if you have to walk up a flight of stairs leaving the station... consider walking.

The verdict against five big tobacco companies, including R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, is likely to be overturned (or a lesser sum awarded) on appeal.See article: Tobacco and the lawIn another blow, the European Commission said that it intends to take civil action against American tobacco companies.