Examples of using Lesser evil in English and their translations into Hebrew
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People choose the lesser evil.
But this lesser evil was obtained because Hitler was assured of achieving a greater evil. .
Sometimes, there is no good answer, only a lesser evil.
Therefore also we should consider it a lesser evil to suffer great wrongs and outrages than to do them.
Americans don't have to vote for the'lesser evil'.
Ordinary people were then left with the choice of picking a"lesser evil" or voting for a third party candidate with no chance of winning.
Workers andmiddle class people voted for Syriza as the‘lesser evil'.
The occupation of eastern Poland by the RedArmy is to be sure a‘lesser evil' compared to the occupation of the same territory by Nazi troops.
The euthanizing of abandonedcats is not a good solution, but the lesser evil.
Illegally copying softwareis seen by some software producers as a"lesser evil" than actually buying or illegally copying a competitor's software.
The legal and moral space was tight andthe matter had to be set as the choice of the lesser evil.
They may see it only as the lesser evil, or as an unavoidable evil, yet they must be of the opinion that a change in the existing, situation would have no purpose.
In almost all democratic countries, the Lesser Evil wins.
Although the firefighters risked their lives, the use of force may have caused a bloodbath,and the police chose the lesser evil.
The Islamists, who hated Arafat, were considered the lesser evil, even secret allies.
If the alternative is an armed clash between those men and the dozens of soldiers it would take to subdue them,a little time spent confronting the past may be the lesser evil.
Moria, after the Balrog awoke, was a place of terror to which lesser evil creatures were drawn.
Those who fail to recognize the reactionary and imperialist character of these Great Powers will inevitable fail to take a consistent anti-imperialist, i.e. Marxist, line and will end up, consciously or unconsciously,supporting one or the other imperialist camp as a“lesser evil”.
Daam's fake internationalism notwithstanding, we will certainly be accused by many of sectarianism for our criticisms,or for refusing to vote for“the lesser evil” despite its drawbacks.
It is with similar cynicism that we are cajoled into continuing the same voting patterns that haveled us no-where by being told to vote for the lesser evil.
If somebody sets, or helps set a house on fire, and afterward saves five out of ten of the occupants of the house in order to convert them into his own semi-slaves,that is to be sure a lesser evil than to have burnt the entire ten.
Little less evil.
One less evil person in this world.
You make the world less evil.
Do you think you could be… just a little less evil than that?
But he just needs to be with someone… a little less evil.
What he means is if you want people to see you as the savior,maybe you should go for something a bit less evil?