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Four of those indicted subsequently admitted lesser charges.

You want to choose the lesser of all evils.

However, he thinks that earnings momentum at ANZ, and to a lesser extent at Westpac, will keep up the pressure on Commonwealth’s relative performance.

Such trivial concerns were left to lesser schools, institutions that perhaps couldn’t appreciate the sanctity of a 10-week regular season, the purity of life without football scholarships, or the venerable tradition of Harvard-Yale.

Keeping the lesser charges in place risked running afoul of state laws that forbid “double jeopardy” or prosecuting a defendant twice for the same alleged crime, the Salehpours said the D.A. explained.