Sentences with phrase «own petty»

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.

Especially after losing legends such as David Bowie and Tom Petty over the last few years, I'm treasuring the chance to catch my favorite acts in concert while I can.

Usually, it only makes them look petty and immature in the eyes of the customer.

Some of the most miserable, unhappy, unfulfilled and petty individuals I've ever known were «successful» millionaires who lacked inner peace.

Petty political points are frustrating.

Lucky people don't waste their time on petty opportunities.

But it's not as though proving him wrong means the media will somehow win — they just look petty, or vindictive, and that serves Bannon's strategy perfectly.

Regardless of the politicking and petty feuds, the success of Aequitas will likely hinge on a fundamental choice every market participant will have to make: How is a stock market, that hallmark of capitalism, best served — with unbridled competition or mutually agreed restraint?

«And tell the customers that the customers are more important than their petty differences.»

The quarterly elections eliminate petty office politics — no one bothers brown - nosing the boss, because the boss may well change in a month or two.

When the world learned that rock legend Tom Petty had passed suddenly from a heart attack last week, social media and the media quickly filled up with emotional tributes to the man's life and music.

Petty, she notes, was a celebrated musician in his lifetime, but he was much more celebrated after his death.

Never be petty.

If you're of a particular generation, Petty's hits probably provided an essential part of the soundtrack to some of your most cherished memories.

Sure he played the Super Bowl and joined other legends in the Traveling Wilburys, but most of us, despite loving Petty's music and respecting him immensely as a performer, rarely thought about him when he was alive.

If you treat your drama - free stars the way many of us treated Petty — expecting them to be there performing fantastically whenever you happen to remember to tune in — you may be in for a rude awakening.

But every one of us can try to find opportunities to wonder at the majesty of nature or art in our everyday lives, expanding our horizons and helping us see past our petty individual challenges and constraints.

Lakdim was known to the police for petty crime but was not a suspected jihadist.

But the truth is that these petty corruptions pale in comparison to Pruitt's actual policy record at the EPA.

The plaintiffs in the ACLU suit include Petty Officer Brock Stone, 34, who has served in the U.S. Navy for 11 years, including a nine - month deployment to Afghanistan, and Staff Sergeant Kate Cole, 27, who has served in the U.S. Army for almost 10 years, including a year in Afghanistan where she was a team leader and designated marksman.

But you're not setting up a Dear Abby for your staff's petty grievances.

Still, he thinks the low barrier of entry combined with a nonpartisan effort to support troops helped boost his effort in an age where petty spats on social media often dominate one's news feed.

While Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Nice attack, no firm evidence has yet emerged that the 31 - year - old attacker, a delivery van driver with a record of home violence and petty crimes, had direct contact with the group.

According to the TC Palm, he has been harassing local establishments and has since been charged with four counts of harassing phone calls, two counts of first degree petty theft, and one count of second degree petty theft.

Never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Left: Third Class Petty Officer Jack Keep on watch at sea aboard the USS Gatling, off the coast of North Korea, 1953.

In 1951, 17 - year - old Jack Keep enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and in early 1953 was assigned to Task Force 77 as a petty officer aboard a ship patrolling the North Korean coast.

When the original Lloyd's café degenerated into a petty den of stockjobbing and gambling during the 1760s, customers induced a waiter to open New Lloyd's Coffee House — with its own New Lloyd's List.

You are a ruthless, vindictive, petty, selfish scoundrel (like the boss on The Simpsons) who cares nothing for his employees and chooses instead to hole yourself up in your castle of a home except when you emerge to fire someone eating donuts instead of working.

Petty, or small - scale, corruption can be a problem, Pallotta says.

There are many different reasons that a person or group of people may trespass on your business premises, from petty vandals and ex-employees to travelers and protesters, and different cases must be handled in different ways.

Before his incarceration, Shkreli was openly critical of pop star Taylor Swift and started a petty feud with the rap outfit Wu - Tang Clan after spending $ 2 million on an exclusive album from the rap group.

Which raises the question: What do you do when your star hire turns out to be a petty tyrant, yet you still believe in his potential?

With his petty descriptions of Trump's hands and orange face, Comey has entered Trump's world where personality and people outweigh facts and ideas, Bruni said.

That led me to do more things along those lines, and when I got the Cup level I saw drivers like Bill Elliott, Richard Petty, and Dale Earnhardt doing great things for charity.

They are not petty or greedy.

In a paper appearing in the Journal of Business Ethics, she identifies three essential factors in a «fraud triangle» that make otherwise ethical people justify stealing petty cash or inventory, expensing things for personal use or adding false credentials to their resumés: motivation, opportunity and rationalization.

Meeting negativity with more negativity will make your business seem immature, petty, and vengeful.

(Deciding a contract is unfair rarely constitutes a legal reason to back out of that contract; Petty claimed that ABC's sale of Shelter Record's to MCA served as justification to declare an unfavorable contract he claimed he signed under duress to be invalid.)

You may not know that Petty played what turned out to be his final shows just last Monday at the Hollywood Bowl, selling out three shows to conclude the band's 40th anniversary tour.

It blows me away that these kids know the whole team because I grew up loving Elton John's band, or Springsteen's, or Tom Petty's — all these guys that have kept the same bands.

The one I'm talking to at the moment — Bill Clinton of Virginia, entrepreneur and U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer — happens to be attending the conference as a member of Inc.'s military entrepreneur mentoring program.

Damn the Torpedoes went double platinum and made Petty a superstar.

In order to maintain a cohesive team, do not spread gossip, cause another to feel like an outcast, or grumble about petty things.

His band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

You know Petty from hits like «Free Fallin», «Stop Draggin» My Heart Around,» «American Girl,» «Breakdown»... the list goes on and on.

On the flip side, avoid bombarding your manager with petty questions that could be answered by your peers or a quick Google search.

Since mastering guitar - playing with his feet, Goffeney has opened for Tom Petty, Journey, and Rush, and has become a YouTube sensation.

Music streaming company Spotify was sued by Wixen Music Publishing last week for allegedly using thousands of songs, including those of Tom Petty, Neil Young and the Doors, without a license and compensation to the music publisher.

Some Rust Belt cities such as Detroit and Youngstown, Ohio, are held back from growing due to «petty, insular» politics and suspicions about the arrival of outsiders who might disrupt the status quo, researchers suggest.