The argument in the separate opinion that, apart from the legal process, society will still accord a lesser status to those marriages is irrelevant.

Brooklyn has long had to endure its lesser status as the outer borough, across the river, out of the city.

In recent years, Britain has granted asylum or a lesser status known as "exceptional leave to remain" to some 30 percent of applicants.

And its lesser status is not at all to be taken for granted.

Presumably, if you were a person of lesser status or charm, you might be left to wait there for some time.

Everything else, including tapestry, is handicraft and of lesser status.

It inspires the pathos of a place that was once at the center of the world and has been reduced to lesser status.

The agreement, however, highlighted the lesser status that less senior members, known as "B-men," enjoyed.

It is a way to refer to another person in conversation without implying either superior or lesser social status.

Only that they be given some sort of intermediary, lesser status.