Sentences with phrase «lesser evil»

Managers are often at a loss for dealing with rampant gossip, bullying, and other undermining behavior from sales associates and staff, believing that avoiding confrontation is the lesser evil.

Between a ULIP and a traditional plan, ULIP is the lesser evil.

Many of America's legal authorities had begin to regard contingency fees — and the encouragement they gave to speculative litigation — not as a lesser evil that should be limited to the cases where it was necessary, but as something wholesome and beneficial in itself.

A couple of the judges didn't perceive the meeting the same way as the above judge but agreed that though the conversation may have been uncomfortable at times, it was a lesser evil than not having a seat at the table at all.

So far, the only tech company (besides Apple) that I've seen enforce a design patent is Microsoft (in its patent spat with Corel), and Microsoft may consider iOS the «lesser evil» among competing operating systems than Android.

Clearly, less packaging is merely the lesser evil.

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Also, why say anything favorable about carbon taxes when cap - and - trade is dead and there's no longer even a weak prudential case for supporting carbon taxes as the lesser evil?

True, I'd imagine a poll taken of the membership of Greenpeace etc would see geosequestration as a lesser evil than nuclear, but it is hardly «total acceptance».

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Yes, I think that anyone who hold the view that the current CO2 emissions are harmful, will also have to be pro nuclear if they want to be taken seriously, or at least view nuclear energy as the lesser evil.

Snap back to reality though, and we soon discover that gaming is the art of choosing the lesser evil — no matter what platform you choose, you're going to miss some games available exclusively for the other systems.

Yes, tax - exempt receipt of dividends is clearly the lesser evil.

But ultimately it's the lesser evil — a larger domestic savings pool will be needed to fund deficits & debt, and to facilitate the eventual transition of the retirement burden from government back to the individual.

7) Inflation is the lesser evil at this point.

Cora is introduced to these on Randall's plantation, but finds herself imprisoned in each state she travels to and learns that the danger lay in accepting any lesser evil.

Jaguar's F - Pace is a lesser evil than many however, being based off the XE and XF saloons, it thoroughly out - drives its smaller, and yet no lighter E-Pace sibling.

What's more is that this decision highlights the failed strategies of the CEA in thinking that choosing a so - called «lesser evil» will help to protect teachers, students and schools from the greater evil represented by people like Republican candidate Tom Foley.

I still shop there because I feel like it's the lesser evil * sometimes * for basics but I'm also torn and appreciate you mentioning it.

And while Organic milk seems like the lesser evil..

When beginning your health journey, I'm a big advocate of opting for the lesser evil, but with the intention of always striving towards optimal health.

Having learned that coconut oil is not simply a lesser evil (as a substitute for hydrogenated oils) but actually has many health benefits in its own right, I have begun using it for practically all of my cooking needs.

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However, using some of the components in the post cycle therapy itself can have negative effects inside the body too, so taking them is actually choosing the lesser evil.

Under winner take all elections, voters have the incentive to vote for a lesser evil rather than their most favored candidate because they are afraid it would help the candidate the like the least.

But the politics of the lesser evil will not be enough to win the Labour Party the next election.

For the left, it is hard to conjure up a more self - defeating, demoralizing, and dispiriting outcome than voting for the lesser evil and winning!

«Some were even saying that fracking and natural gas would be a lesser evil than coal.

When the left calls for a vote for the lesser evil, it surrenders its independent voice and power.

In this presidential race, if you get the lesser evil you want, Hillary Clinton, you get the corporate militarism of the status quo — more economic inequality, war, and climate change.

I'm saying that, given a choice between Clinton and Trump, and knowing their choice would actually decide the election, a minority would choose Clinton as the lesser evil.

For single - member executive offices, LaVenia added, instant runoff voting where voters rank their choices in order of preference is a system that eliminates the incentives for lesser evil voting while insuring that the most preferred candidate is elected.

«Minor party advocates of fusion also say that they cross-endorse the lesser evil of the major party candidates in order to stop the candidate they most fear.

Perhaps Antifa is the lesser evil compared to actual neo-Nazis, but it's better to do everything to not get reduced to a choice between these.

There was also the fear that secular autocrats were a lesser evil compared to the perceived alternative — fundamentalism.

If it is the case that not intervening would have led to a significant massacre within this week / fortnight, there is a pragmatic lesser evil case for on balance supporting a not very well thought through intervention (the US has clearly not spent a long time doing this), and a stalemate, and then looking to the Arab League to mediate a political settlement over time in which the government can't win by massacre.

Many prominent Polish intellectuals supported PO and United Left as a lesser evil compared to PiS.

It's a classic case of settling for the lesser evil.

I try to explain to them why those choices aren't good, but the compromise is to buy the lesser evil.

And I, too, use the «lesser evil» line of thinking when it comes to products like these.

So now I'm torn — which is the lesser evil?

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CrossFit saw a boom in affiliated «boxes» (franchise gyms) in 2008, and since then, numerous food and beverage brands including RX Bar, FitAid, Kill Cliff and snack brand Lesser Evil have focused their product innovation, retail strategies and brand ambassador partnerships to appeal to this consumer segment.

During Natural Products Expo West 2018, Senior Reporter Meagan McGinnes spoke with five - time CrossFit Games athlete Lauren Fisher about her work as a brand ambassador with Lesser Evil.

I won't vote for a lesser evil, for it is STILL voting for an evil.

Thus The Lesser Evil is, throughout, a defense of what Ignatieff understands to be the strength and superiority of democracy, both in itself as a form of government and also as a basis for dealing effectively with the threat of destruction posed by terrorism.

Hence The Lesser Evil, which is based on Ignatieff's 2003 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh.

He argues that terrorists in our age threaten the destruction of democracy itself, with all the values that democracy embodies and protects, and that to combat this threat effectively, democracies may need to do acts that are evil in themselves but constitute a lesser evil than that posed by terrorism.

She was doing social work with young women and had come to the conclusion that abortion is, in some cases, the lesser evil.

When Ignatieff quickly adds that in a liberal democracy all use of force is a lesser evil, something has, it seems to me, gone wildly astray.