He turned down several lesser posts before setting up as an independent consultant.
They were either given lesser posts or had their contracts bought out.
Even had this matter not come to light, we should by now anyway have considered transferring him to some lesser post.
He held lesser posts in the service from 1951 to 1973.
Or he could run for some lesser post.
The president offered the departing general a lesser post and a medal for faithful service.
When offered the lesser post of Housing, he refused.
The call came from one of the lesser posts.
Earlier he held lesser posts at the newspaper and was an executive with World Book.
Its top officer took a lesser post and a second officer resigned.