There are only about 100 abductions by strangers a year, making it a lesser threat to children than choking or bicycle accidents.

Soviet surface ships, which are viewed as a lesser threat, would be dealt with by a combination of attacks by air and sea.

The Patriot Act, however, may turn out to be among the lesser threats to our individual and collective privacy.

The developer is now considering a hotel, which some see as a lesser threat to the area's character.

Nor has anything similar ever been tolerated by the United States, even under far lesser threat.

De Grae was by far the lesser threat of the two.

Germany was a lesser threat and relations were good with Germany after 1933, as late as early 1939.

My concern now was the lesser but still important threat of vitamin deficiency.

Now the one seems as remote as Guadalcanal, the other a lesser threat than global warming.

Opponents without feet can hardly chase you around and once down, become lesser threats.