Sentence examples for the lesser part from inspiring English sources

— spend the lesser part of their time talking directly about Sept. 11.

War is the problem, and aid -- in whatever incarnation -- is only the lesser part of a solution.

Considered for the role of Helen, Byrne wound up playing the lesser part of the slave-girl Briseis.

Upon reaching the Philippines, the current divides, with the lesser part turning south and then east to start the Pacific Equatorial Countercurrent, and the greater part flowing north.

THREE months ago Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, said he would unilaterally "disengage" from the coastal Gaza strip, the lesser part of a would-be independent Palestinian state.

Such engagements have been more the rule than the exception for Mr. Valera, whose Cuban associations have, by his own account, constituted the lesser part of his reputation.

Jenifer Ringer was as graceful as ever; Abi Stafford sparkled; and all the lesser parts — like the effortless leaps of Sean Suozzi — were brightly done.

All the lesser parts were deftly handled in another triumph for Vick's sui generis Birmingham company, the most innovative and inclusive in the land.

By Harold Ross The New Yorker, January 7 , 1933P. 13 A theatrical producer started to select the cast for a new show and for one of the lesser parts sent for an old-time actor.

In the age of photocopying, paper has a way of slipping its tethers, and the paper a spy was cleared to see may be only a part--perhaps the lesser part--of the paper that came his way.

Despite the beauty that exists in America and its people, we have reached this sad moment in our history through the lesser parts of ourselves.