Sentences with phrase «petty squabbles»

We have moved on from the times when children were innocent and playgrounds were places of petty squabbles over football.

He was never really in a car capable of being regularly at the front, and losing his seat at a Renault team on the ascendancy through petty squabbles with management wasn't the best moment of his career.

While they've got the top of the market pretty much to themselves, Amazon will be making the smart move if they stay above petty squabbling over the advantages of features the Kindle, as a reading device, would gain nothing from having in the first place.

The statement also read, «The Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice strongly frowns at any unsavoury attempt or conspiracy to drag his office and that of the Honourable Chief Justice of Nigeria into petty squabbles in the midst of burning national issues.

If that is so, then why do they spend so much time on petty squabbles?

Those who sabotage the Council today are letting petty squabbles and impulses towards ethnic self - isolation prevail over walking together towards unity.

Everything else is just petty squabbling, which is understandable as its what you christians are best at.

The Manhyia conflict are assumed to be part of the symptoms of a fledgling internal discontent, disharmony and poor processes and procedure for addressing petty squabbles and internecine conflicts.

However, what another source with security background says may hamper Gbevlo - Lartey's work when he finally acquiesce to the President's request is the needless petty squabbles amongst his peer security chiefs which is creating problems of harmonization and coordination.

This is not the time for us to be pursuing petty squabble because in - fighting will divert the resources of government into conflict resolution,» Major General Opoku - Adusei told elders of the two feuding factions.

The host Chief Togbui Adrakpanya, who is also the Fiaga of Afife Traditional area appealed to the Anlo State to eschew petty squabbles and forge a strong lasting bond for development and progress.

Some films invited petty squabbles, but others — like «Zero Dark Thirty» and «The Innocence of Muslims» — touched on pertinent, timely issues.

While judges do not generally like to referee petty squabbles, if the matter is important enough, it's time to ask for help (and it may also be time to send an eminently reasonable follow up email so that you have confirmation of your position).

Haenel and Deneuve, puffing on cigarettes at every turn, aren't given enough material to make their characters identifiable as human beings worth empathizing over; their bourgeois, petty squabbles over money increasingly difficult to care about.

Horace, whom we first meet in Horace's Compromise, endures trouble with calm circumspection, rising above petty squabbles to bring bickering colleagues together.

God is bigger than our petty squabbles.

The petty squabbles seem even pettier.

The only solution is for our entire society to develop a social code of conduct and set of values that transcends the petty squabbling over whose «book» is right.

Let's just call a spade a spade and stop the petty squabbles, Cavani / Falcao are superior marksman than Giroud.

The club, though, will care less about those petty squabbles, although they will have to come to terms with the fact that the majority of the English public will be cheering on Blackpool and not the BlueBirds.

It annoys me greatly that it can be treated as a «bitchfest» as if it were nothing more than a petty squabble over something of no importance, a mere slanging match.

While there is certainly comedy and entertainment value in some of the petty squabbles, there have also been moments when it has potentially deprived the residents of New York City and New York state needed resources.

The AGF noted that the EFCC's attribution of the leakage to his office was an «unsavoury attempt» to drag his office into a «petty squabble» with the CJN, as he was not aware of any ongoing probe of the nation's topmost judicial officer.

«It just seems like a petty squabble when we've got a real fight on our hands.»

Brian Paddick, the Liberal Democrats» candidate for London mayor, hit out at the «petty squabbling» between the two frontrunners, singling out their debates over the Routemaster bus.

If you imagine that any of these matters is foremost on councilmembers» minds, you haven't been paying attention to the low level of backbiting and petty squabbling that defines our (almost) one - party unicameral legislative body.

«The big issue is you're having a petty squabble with a fellow progressive when we should be coming together,» he said.

Oh, don't worry, there will be plenty of petty squabbling and brinkmanship over budget cuts.

Petty squabbling over a side issue — whether to hold conference committee hearings in which both houses would publicly hash out differences — has consumed the Capitol for weeks.

The idea is to allow people to log constantly, without thinking about which moments matter — and then to retrieve any of those events or memories, from weddings to petty squabbles.

A MILF being mature is a good things because that means that you don't need to worry about petty squabbles, indecision, and other small dramas that pop up in a relationship with a young woman.

Adult Swim's satirical movie review show will bring film expertise and petty squabbles to a city near you.

Okay, so it's not Citizen Kane, but it was reaching for something, communicating something much bigger than the petty squabbling of our individual opinions.

He envisions the city as a chilly, neon - drenched world of small transactions, petty squabbles, and the occasional violent outburst.

There is no cutting off from visitation rights or any petty squabbles that stop either character looking like they are in the right.

Power Rangers by George Wolf Let us put an end to our petty squabbling and share a delicious warm donut, for Power Rangers is here to confirm what we long... read more →

Let us put an end to our petty squabbling and share a delicious warm donut, for Power Rangers is here to confirm what we long imagined.

In these cities, there is now a single, publicly accountable official in charge, rather than nine wannabe mayors immobilizing the school system with their petty squabbles, power grabs, and turf protecting.

You or someone in your group ends up entering into a petty squabble over which Tulum activity comes next.

Honestly, so this petty squabbling over exclusives is silly.

Being so unique in what it offers and stands for the Switch is seemingly above the petty squabbles of the console wars.

The petty squabbling and in - house fighting needs to be stopped.