Examples of using Lesser evil in English and their translations into Slovak
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Mubarak will appear as having been a much lesser evil- better to stick with the devil you know than to play around with emancipation.
Lesser evil follows from the corruption of a monarchy(which is tyranny)
Regarding a“lesser evil”: preventing pregnancy is one thing- we are speaking in terms of the conflict between the 5th and 6th Commandments.
Of course, the fact that there may have been a greater evil doesn't mean that a lesser evil is insignificant.
As ever, then, the debate boils down to a consideration of the“greater good” or the“lesser evil.”.
Sometimes there is no other course of action but to tolerate a lesser evil in order to prevent a greater evil. .
The lesser evil would therefore, presumably, be for them to leave Belgium with their parents.
The Witcher movie will reportedly use two short stories from that realm,"The Witcher" and"Lesser Evil.
fully acknowledged he thought ISIS was“the lesser evil”.
the country's dictator, as the lesser evil when compared with US backed rebel opposition groups, some of whom have Islamist leanings.
Not long ago, the US President-elect also stated that he viewed the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad as the lesser evil when compared with the US-backed rebel opposition groups, some of whom have“radical Islamist leanings”.
essential human values as if accepting an allegedly lesser evil inevitable.
probabilities in the balance and choose the lesser evil because in truth each man had much good that could be said of him.
order would be a lesser evil than the social disruption they were suffering during the nineteen twenties
our recognition of it is not tantamount to choosing the lesser evil; it is the only appropriate step we can take in the present situation.
arguing that the contraception was a lesser evil than pregnancy.
implicit- that Fascism was the lesser evil, an understandable reaction to the Communist threat.
so he decided to“commit a lesser evil to avoid another greater(evil)”
the defeat of which of the two groups of belligerent nations would be the lesser evil for socialism.
Trump himself is expected to be eventually removed since the US requires real regime change while Trump merely represents the lesser evil faction of the old regime, the sources continue.
