Sentence examples for lesser vehicles from inspiring English sources

If an S.U.V. not long ago exuded affluence, toughness and the ability to mow down lesser vehicles in the way, the message it may send now is more humble: I can't afford a second car.

And while the G-Wagen is legendary for soldiering through off-road conditions that would maim lesser vehicles, few of those sold will tangle with terrain more daunting than the Pasadena Freeway, a point driven home by the G500's interior, which rivals the Mercedes S-class sedan for opulence.

They are both long, low-slung, cool-looking two-seaters that elicit envy from people driving lesser vehicles.

So for 2014, the automaker turned the S550 sedan into a rolling buffet of comfort and safety features that may seem like wizardry now but will be commonplace on lesser vehicles in the future.

Differences in living style between the northern (Mahayana, or "Greater Vehicle") and the southern (Theravada, called Hinayana, or "Lesser Vehicle," in derogation) monastic institutions are quite radical.

(After six months in a detention center, he was finally released, in September, after pleading guilty to lesser vehicle-code violations).

"This might limit the appeal, but we didn't want anyone to get into the car and think it was a separate or somehow lesser vehicle," he said.

Then he stayed a long time at Pataliputra, conversing with Buddhist monks, studying Sanskrit texts with Buddhist scholars, and transcribing the Vinaya of the Mahasanghika school a dissident group of the Hinayana (Lesser Vehicle) born from the Council of Vesali (c. 383 bce).

The same is true of the contrast frequently found in modern studies between Mahayana and Hinayana ("Lesser Vehicle"), a term used in some Mahayana texts to criticize unacceptable and deviant opinions; it has no real-world referent and is never equivalent to non-Mahayana Buddhism, much less to any specific sect such as the Theravada.

Sutta Pitaka, ( Pali: "Basket of Discourse") Sanskrit Sutra Pitaka, extensive body of texts constituting the basic doctrinal section of the Buddhist canon properly speaking, the canon of the so-called Hinayana (Lesser Vehicle) doctrinal schools, including the Theravada (Way of the Elders) form of Buddhism predominant in present-day Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and Southeast Asia.

In Mahāyāna texts, these forms of Buddhism are called Hīnayāna, the "lesser vehicle", a pejorative term.