Sentences with phrase «even petty»

I don't deny that there are pressures, and even petty corruption, but there is no sign of the scale of threat to compare with Stalin.

Of course at the beginning of the game the only equipment your characters will have on hand are basic daggers and armor, so even the petty Kobolds will be an issue.

While the piece made some important points about maintaining your home, those points were clouded by overly emotional (even petty) comments on my part.

Even the petty thieves are down on their luck.

If you feel out of sync with your spouse on a daily or weekly basis, that conflict is keeping your family from being as truly nurturing and constructive as it can be — and even those petty irritations with your spouse are probably sucking the joy out of day - to - day family life.

You want to know the truth so you can address problems of unsafe behavior, whether it is substance use, sex, risky activities, or even petty crime.

The petty squabbles seem even pettier.

Local authorities commencing care proceedings do not have to show a case to answer on admissible evidence — necessary in even the pettiest of criminal prosecutions.

Not exact matches

In an era of petty politics and cabinet ministers who put their principles second to their allegiances, Flaherty drew strength — even joy — from doing what he felt was right.

Acknowledge the inappropriateness of the behavior in question: Even if you are dealing with someone who is upset about something that you think is petty, you most likely will agree on some level that the way the customer was treated was inappropriate.

In a post shared to Petty's Facebook page on Friday evening, Petty's wife, Dana, and daughter, Adria, wrote that Petty had «many serious ailments including emphysema, knee problems and most significantly a fractured hip.»

These folks aren't at the stage of petty thievery and broken homes, and many of them are holding down jobs, even high - pressure, high - profile ones.

An investigation by USA Today found that the technology was used even for routine crimes, like petty theft.

«Sometimes I fail to understand,» Ravi continued, «how men with such high levels of intelligence fail at such petty things as the stock market, even when you hear of investment stories about individuals who've made fortunes because of exceptional insights or sheer genius!»

On a related note: Even if my understanding of the cartoon is wrong, there is indeed nothing wrong at all for hating a being which is:»...» is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control - freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.»

Even Hegel's system, for all that it sought to have done with petty subjectivism, could do so only by way of a massive metaphysical myth of the self - positing of the Concept, and of a more terrible economy of necessity than any pagan antiquity had imagined.

Instead they acted like political hacks rather than spiritual authorities, doubling down on the invective and serving up to the American public an even deeper draught of petty partisanship.

How do we respond when schools seek greater control over even the most petty details of their students» daily lives?

Solzhenitsyn even blesses his prison cell for having purged him of the confusion of his age, for once on the other side of history — free from the petty progressive notions of one's time — one enters history in a new way, as a witness to the inner force that intuitively resists oppression born of the human will to power.

Some of the more avid commenters will try to dispute this post and discredit my comments or even try to provoke me for a response but I find this type of action to very petty and pathetic.

His message is that human beings will not, perhaps even can not, attend to the world without petty self - seeking until all their illusions and ambitions are stripped away.

Even worse was to follow: the Great Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, the Russian gulags, the construction of nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction, ethnic cleansing, to say nothing of the breakdown of many marriages and increase in petty crime — and all within the nations of Christendom.

If your sky fairy really needs pink monkeys worshiping him on a tiny spec of rock spinning through one of the billions of galaxies he really is quite petty and I wouldn't follow him even if I was sure he was real.

Disinterest in an expression of sorrow, even if it is in protest of not including a different expression, seems callous and petty.

It moves me to push past my own petty grievances against the Bride and just show up — even when it's hard, even when it's not all figured out.

Its explanation is incoherent and petty, even by SPLC standards.

His self - love is destructive, even demonic, but it certainly is not petty.

As a faithful layman, Bernanos embraced the Church's social teaching and relentlessly addressed questions of social justice, even as he deeply resented the petty clerics who knew no higher mission than «marching in step with the times.»

Elsewhere he refers to some Psalms as «vulgar,» «petty,» «self - righteous,» «contemptible» and even «devilish» (pp. 21 - 25).

Although other notes are mixed in with it, including not only divine judgment but also occasionally the attribution to God of petty anger and jealousies and the need to be appeased, the main stream of the Bible's message is of a God who loves men, even sinful men, enough to yearn to save them from their sins.

John's reputation was such that even Herod — whom we can assume was in today's terms a petty dictator — hesitated to attack John directly.

I guess the idea that he is President of the United States has escaped your notice: that includes everyone, even a small, petty little person like yourself.

you can find examples of this pathetic god and its very human traits... its all thru out the bible, and it even makes excuses for why god seems so human — two possible reasons for this — either those who wrote the bible screwed up and forgot to make god seem godlike because its all a lie... a fabrication of man... or god isn't a god but rather a petty, hateful alien with a napoleon complex (not sure they have a napoleon in the alien form... godzilla — lol, but godzilla at least is a true possibility... god and those who believe are living in a fantasy world!!

If we do not give thanks daily for the Christian fellowship in which we have been placed, even where there is no great experience, no discoverable riches, but much weakness, small faith and difficulty; if we keep complaining to God that everything is so paltry and petty, so far from what we expected, then we hinder God from letting our fellowship grow according to the measure and riches which are there for us all in Christ Jesus.

It's just incredibly petty and desperate to claim that 1 goal that you didn't even make any sort of effort into.

If criticisms of any Kind, be it constructive or petty or even personal jibes cam spur a team on to better things its certainly don't work with Arsenal, otherwise we would have won at least 2 league titles and maybe a CL title in the last 10 years.....

In 1980 Petty drove with a broken neck, knowing that even a bump from another ear could kill him.

We would not have to worry about petty stuff like this if we had a big squad full of 1st team quality even on the bench like Chelsea, Man City.

As Jon says in an earlier comment Ozil is not really a Maureen type of player so he is unlikely to be first choice but Maureen would enjoy getting one over on Wenger and is petty enough to do so even if it means paying # 300k pw for a reserve.

I live in the Washington metro area and it is known that B Allen is very petty that's why there was a rumor of them trying to tag him again even after they went and got A. Smith.

Even in those rare periods when Petty can't drive — such as the six weeks following his crash at Darlington — he will show up at races and sign hundreds of autographs, devoting to each a good 15 seconds worth of looping, swirling penmanship.

and if the giants act petty and not play or pay him, you might see him on a soccer team in europe making even more money.

Still, they didn't make nearly as many plays as Petty and Thomas did, and without that disruptive presence, Illinois might need an improved run defense just to break even.

Until this tiny petty manager and owner leave football to the real passionate experts out there we won't even exsist as a top club so we're better off waiting for that day to come in 2/3 years and hope usamanov is the man to take over and cleanse the whole club from top to bottom and rid of Wengers cancer and loosers who get paid way to much just to install a tiny weak loser mentality and petty training and transfers Tactics with teeny weeny transfer fees and huge wages for mediocre staff n players Bring on 2020

So many pundits and even so - called supporters seem to enjoy it when Arsenal struggles, seeing their golden boy Jurgen Klopp and the team many picked to replace Arsenal in the top 4 does feel a little like justice; but that's being petty.

His cosmopolitan, free - flowing approach to the game is what made me a soccer fan, even if I didn't realize it at the time, and even if I'd trade it now for the petty pragmatism of a Mourinho if results improved.

Even the media darling petty dictator Fidel Castro is estimated to be responsible for the death of 50,000 Cuban dissidents.

His mother and fathers gift was even more horrible It included a wagon wheel with Rawhide straps set up in the front yard with the sign that that evening the community needed to come see the uppity slave get publicly whipped for his defiance There was also a 2000 dollar cleanup needed His mother was Taken was crying that she had given birth to him 45 years before had we turned him so much against us he would be this petty about it.

My friends and I may get into petty disagreements and some of the lessons that Positive Discipline teaches you can even help us.

And most importantly, don't try to distract your child from their emotions, even if they seem about something small and petty.