Sentences with phrase «in petty»

Often litigated divorces, in their search for Truth, can get lost in petty «he said / she said» talk, rather than look at the big picture.

In a petty and fiscally stupid gambit aimed at undermining one of the more effective family planning ideas in a generation, the GOP - controlled Congress has gone gunning for Title X — a $ 286 million grant program that has saved taxpayers billions of dollars.

Siri's various teams morphed into an unwieldy apparatus that engaged in petty turf battles and heated arguments over what an ideal version of Siri should be — a quick and accurate information fetcher or a conversant and intuitive assistant capable of complex tasks.

This defensive driving course is $ 25, which is the lowest available price in Petty Texas.

Q. Can I take your course instead of sitting in a Petty classroom for 6 hours?

We finished by looking at the American case of John Gellene, and Professor Mitt Regan's conclusion that Gellene was prone to engaging in petty transgressions which, as his moral compass began to lose direction, led incrementally to more serious breaches.

But if time «creeps in this petty pace from day to day,» so does this lengthening of light; a measly 38 seconds got tacked on to yesterday, for example.

In criminal cases, a judge will be reluctant to give a stay of adjudication without prosecutor approval (or finding an abuse of prosecutorial discretion) but in petty misdemeanor traffic cases judges are more willing despite prosecution opposition.

Although its analysis, like that in Gideon and other earlier cases, suggested that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel should apply to all state criminal prosecutions, Argersinger held only that an indigent defendant is entitled to appointed counsel, even in petty offenses punishable by six months of incarceration or less, if he is likely to be sentenced to incarceration for any time if convicted.

However, I am disappointed that the climateaudit.org website is playing into the hands of the hockeystickers by joining in the chorus of those more interested in the petty comparisons of wording, than they are in the fact that leading paleoclimatologists, Al Gore and U. N. have perpetrated misinformation on the world at large, which may in the end cost all of us trillions of dollars.

If you use the «Search Inside This Book» function and use «schwarzschild», then page 205 in Petty and page 22 in Goody and Yung will give you the derivation of Schwarzschild's equation.

To - morrow, and to - morrow, and to - morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time;

Well, oxygen does absorb and emit towards the Surface in the ~ 10μm range, as shown in the Petty graphics in my earlier topic https://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/10/visualizing-the-greenhouse-effect-emission-spectra/

that Bob Carter denied, or perhaps you'd rather just apologize for baseless namecalling in a petty, illspirited

Help the farmer in petty errands during day time and protect the village from bad people in the night.

Other highlights in Eastern Newfoundland include the small historic town of Trinity, the puffins in Elliston, snorkeling with whales in Petty Harbour, and Witless Bay.

But unfortunately, some people who don't normally engage in petty crime just can't resist swiping a package off your doorstep just because it's there.

-- O: The Oprah Magazine «With courting curmudgeons, wayward sons, religion, race, and real estate in a petty and picturesque English village, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand is surprisingly, wonderfully romantic and fresh... the best first novel I've read in a long, long time.»

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time.»

In between federal laws, warring factions have dug themselves in petty foxholes to show their loyalties to their respective camps, at the expense of integrity and solutions.

The board of education was tangled in petty patronage, and the district had failed for decades to satisfy the courts that its schools were not racially segregated.

We can do this without ruining our relationship with our bosses as long as we ground our feedback and resistance in professional judgement that benefits students, not in petty temper tantrums or personal attacks.

That said, it also revealed that young people are more engaged in school, more likely to want to go to university and less likely to be involved in «risky» activities, such as smoking or getting involved in petty crime.

The authors seem to believe that board members spending «little time on district business... might not be an altogether bad thing: limited time on district business could mean less opportunity to micromanage or engage in petty politics.»

Hoffman is small - time schlub Mickey Scarpato: loser, scraper, driver of a refrigerated meat truck, and sometime - participant in petty larcenies with his buddy Bird Capezio (John Turturro).

Not only is this heavy - handed story device too weighty for such a lightweight comedy, but it paints its main romantic players in petty, unflattering light, and we wonder if these two have the maturity and communication skills to ever be happy with one another.

Searching for the sublime, we are all explorers in our own way, seeking relief from «tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeping in this petty pace from day to day.»

But it's in digging out the black humour in the petty criminal's scrap to survive that Slattery distinguishes himself.»

From her younger persona as a sporty but self - conscious schoolgirl, through her time as part of a girl gang involved in petty theft and other forms of experimentation, right up until she gets sucked into the shady world of drug dealing, Toure's great strength in the role is an unusual kind of reserve.

Cave - dwelling should have made him highly sensitive to sound and transformed him into an ascetic without interest in petty conflicts of domination.

Tossing in a Blair Witch video camera, the climactic beats are too hip to be idealistic, and revel in a petty vision of doom that feels less like a cheap thrill than a cheap shot.

Garish, audacious, soaked in crimson gore and involved in petty, ugly, bestial behaviours put forward with an uncomfortable level of matter - of - factness, it's all underscored by a saturation palette that replicates in my mind the effect of the neon stings of Hitchcock's Rope first and then Vertigo and Marnie.

There's no need to have seen Mediterranea, though viewers who have will better understand the close relationship that Pio shares with Seihon's Ayiva, who provides the boy with a crash course in petty theft.

Family members engage in petty arguments and verbal abuse that occasionally break into physical fights.

It's a fascinating track in that Petty's strengths seem to have been played to by the difficulties imposed by a low - budget production — I'd be interested to see if a little more cash would actually hamper him.

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Because of this, we are committed to assisting singles in Petty Harbour, NL in their search to find love and romantic fulfillment.

So, if you are a beautiful young woman, you no more need to get involved in petty fights with your boyfriend or worry about breakup.

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Some viewers learned from this master class in petty, others way were turned off.

There is a hunger out there for wonder, for understanding, and there are people out there who think that the scientific worldview somehow denies, somehow reduces the poetic vision of the universe, which in its petty, paltry way their religion seems to give them.

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has a routine practice of meddling in petty science - funding matters to score political points.

Researchers have also been studying everyday moral dilemmas such as doing a favor or engaging in petty theft.

I didn't have time to get caught up in the petty departmental stuff; she gave me a good perspective that actually helped me get through my program.»

The mayor's obstinate demand to further tax the rich triggered their feud in the first place, but he keeps picking at the scab in a petty effort to portray Cuomo as a fake progressive.

As Charles Peguy, 1873 - 1914, had told us, «Every great enterprise starts off with enthusiasm for an exalted aim and ends up bogged down in petty politics.»

Denise Jewell Gee isn't surprised by the battle over $ 25,000 between Nik Wallenda and the City of Niagara Falls, where «things can tend to get caught up in the petty business of politics as usual.»

Against ISIS's mastery of rhetoric, our language inexorably emerges as weak and ineffective, stuck as it in petty debates over whether it should be designated as «Daesh» or «Daech».

I can remember as a child having a close friend with a mom who was constantly getting involved in our petty elementary school girl problems.

We lost control and got involved in petty arguments, which disrupted the game and played in to Viila's hands.