Over the past three decades, it has come to play a greater, not lesser, role in important ways.

Of course it is about defining our place in the world and being happy with a lesser role.

You can't be dissatisfied because you're put in a lesser role.

However, logic seemed to play a much lesser role in this situation than he found comfortable.

There was no way she would have accepted a lesser role by marrying someone else.

People like the Lady have trouble assuming a lesser role.

Good things happened in a couple of the lesser roles.

From then on, Charles played a lesser role in politics.

There's no way he's going to take a lesser role.

But the great difference here is the lesser role played by registration.