1. How can she be so petty?

2. He seems to take delight in petty cruelty.

3. He got the sack for petty thieving.

4. The removal of petty restrictions has made life easier.

5. Some of the prison officers were petty tyrants.

6. Big business will never let petty nationalism get in the way of a good deal.

7. It was a petty problem and they soon solved it.

8. We have been chafing under petty regulations for too long.

9. He became involved in petty crime as a teenager.

10. Some petty bureaucrat wanted all the documents in triplicate.

11. Take the money for stamps out of petty cash.

12. These petty rules can lead to frustration and anger.

13. I hate being fettered by petty rules and regulations.

14. She grew tired of his petty jealousies.

15. She felt boxed in by all their petty rules.

16. He descended to a life of petty crime.

17. She is above petty gossiping.

18. I think that attitude is a bit petty.

19. I'm tired of her petty jealousies.

20. They were nothing but petty thieves .

21. My life is hedged about with petty regulations.

22. Britain is suffering an epidemic of petty crime.

23. Away with all these petty restrictions!

24. Petty pilfering is on the increase in super market.

25. It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part,(http:///petty.html) makes men petty and vindictive. 

26. Prisoners complain that they are subjected to too many petty rules and restrictions.

27. Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.

28. He was miserable all the time and rows would start over petty things.

29. Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.

30. A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves.

1. How can she be so petty?

2. He got the sack for petty thieving.

3. The removal of petty restrictions has made life easier.

4. Some of the prison officers were petty tyrants.

5. Prisoners complain that they are subjected to too many petty rules and restrictions.

6. He was miserable all the time and rows would start over petty things.

7. Big business will never let petty nationalism get in the way of a good deal.

8. A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves.

9. We have been chafing under petty regulations for too long.

10. It was petty of her not to accept the apology.

11. No petty official was going to stop Philip from getting into the enclosure. He would just snap his fingers at them.

31. How could you be so petty?

32. He felt fettered by petty rules and regulations.

33. My life is hedged around with petty regulations.

34. There's been an increase in minor offences, such as traffic violations and petty theft.

35. I didn't want to get caught up in endless petty arguments.

36. A leaking roof is just one of life's petty annoyances!

37. The article paints them as a bunch of petty criminals.

38. The book traced his steady progress from petty theft to serious crime.

39. Murder, petty theft and tax evasion, for instance, all have different motives and consequences.

40. Petty restrictions easily raised/aroused the ire of such a creative artist.

41. He had to overrule his petty officials to accept him.

42. He quickly discovered the petty jealousies and gossip of village life.

43. The rise in unemployment is paralleled by an increase in petty crime.

44. Their delegation threw a giant monkey wrench into the process this week by raising all sorts of petty objections.

45. The decision not to allow disabled athletes to take part was seen as petty and bigoted.

46. She felt hemmed in by all their petty rules and regulations.

47. The petty quarrels were a sad commentary on the state of the government.

48. His administration was plagued by one petty scandal after another, cumulatively very damaging.

49. She has become enmeshed in a tangle of drugs and petty crime.

50. The paymasters of these petty crooks are the big crime syndicates.

51. The writer often obfuscates the real issues with petty details.

52. Don't be so petty!

53. To an outsider,(/petty.html) the issues that we fight about would seem almost laughably petty.

54. It was petty of her not to accept the apology.

55. No petty official was going to stop Philip from getting into the enclosure. He would just snap his fingers at them.

56. Petty crime is having a deleterious effect on community life.

57. A lot of drug addicts get into petty crime to support their habit.

58. He made his children's lives a misery with all his petty rules.

59. The threat of jail failed to deter him from petty crime.

60. She had been pilfering from the petty cash for months.

61. In his short life he had run the entire gamut of crime, from petty theft to murder.

62. He always likes to squabble with others about petty matters.

63. Neale is finishing a three-month sentence for petty theft.

64. We're above all that kind of petty vanity, unfortunately.

65. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Ralph Waldo Emerson 

66. This isn't about some petty artistic vendetta.

67. Twenty-three years old. Petty thief.

68. We started having arguments over petty little things.

69. They are entered in the petty cash book.

70. Sometimes he can be so petty about money.

71. This will tend to incline them toward petty theft.

72. Do we in petty ways throw our weight around?

73. The sudden rivalries and petty jealousies.

74. Some in the West Wing suspected more petty motives.

75. Then I got arrested for some petty thing, shoplifting.

76. Down deep, Clive was unimaginative, inactive, petty, unquestioning.

77. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. J. K. Rowling 

78. This petty cash is kept on the imprest system, whereby the petty cashier is entrusted with a fixed sum of money.

79. He quit last week, citing office politics and petty jealousies.

79. try its best to gather and make good sentences.

80. Stretched to the limit ... police chief says petty crime is going unchecked.

81. Appendix 2 contains a full list of care centres for each petty sessions area.

82. The cases seem either petty or arcane, the investigations tedious or motivated by politics.

83. The quarrel had started over something as petty as who could spit furthest after eating half a ginger biscuit.

84. Just because some fellow employees have gone petty does not mean that you need to change your behavior.

85. And yet with what poetry did this petty man long for his niche and his pleasures.

86. The Home Secretary was not about to be seen as going soft on the petty criminal.

87. The place was suffused with struggle and resentment and frustration. Petty crime was commonplace.

88. In her jealousy she had taken her revenge in a series of petty actions.

89. Thus the headman had a veto over criminal prosecutions for the petty offences over which village tribunals had exclusive jurisdiction.

90. They had petty thefts of eggs or a chicken, but no robbery.

91. Some are drawn into a life of crime: petty thieving, drugs trafficking etc.

92. The trial court found that her demands were not petty or unreasonable, since they involved practices she felt were racially discriminatory.

93. Economic deprivation has increased both petty and violent crimes, turning some cities into murder capitals.

94. You can earn advancement to leading cook and then to petty officer cook or caterer.

95. His leading characters are seen to be, in some sense, petty and peripheral: but peripheral to what?

96. He prospered in this country, plying a uniquely leisure-class trade, and then expressed petty contempt for his hosts.

97. Over the years several have been the victim of petty criminals.

98. The crimes were petty stuff, small-time marijuana, heroin started coming in.

99. My background is petty theft and liquor store holdups and the usual drug junk.

100. The meetings are not meant to serve as glorified works councils, hammering out grand agreements on petty feuds.

101. Democrats have always been concerned about the abuse of power, not petty larceny.

102. On the basis of that petty insult, Pick stormed out of the negotiations, never to return.

103. In the dry parlance of a police report(), it was nothing more than a petty theft.

104. A petty officer, his wife and three incredibly well-behaved children were first.

105. The imprest would also be ￡3.77, so that the petty cash box contains ￡20 for the next day.

106. And the former petty crook had no previous record for violence.

107. They patrolled the streets and aimed to prevent, by their presence, the committing of petty offences or minor disorder.

108. And how petty those ambitions were, really, besides my family's happiness.

109. This may sound like petty whimpering, but intrusions upon the exercise of lawful freedom is no small matter.

109. try its best to gather and make good sentences.

110. In all, four sailors were punished and three petty officers, including Wait, were removed from the Salt Lake City.

111. What I normally do is vandalism, poaching, driving without insurance, petty opportunist larceny.

112. Many of them were local tradesmen who supplemented their living by acting as petty rural landlords.

113. Individual petty conflicts therefore easily accumulate to add to the differences already apparent between locals and newcomers in terms of background and life-styles.

114. As the years had progressed a series of petty crimes had seen him in remand homes, borstals and finally prison.

115. An alliance between workers, peasants and petty bourgeoisie necessitates a bureaucratic authoritarian regime. 2.

116. Modern corporate businesses are few and licences for small-scale repair shops and petty street traders provide a major share of city revenue.

117. The new courts were designed to relieve police courts of petty offences.

118. In other words, it seemed that as petty commodity traders these marketwomen were often unable even to reproduce their present conditions.

119. Burglaries may sound petty, but there are a lot of formerly rural areas that are being developed.

120. I also found it hard to deal with the petty bourgeois outlook of all but a few of the girls at that private school.

121. There's petty crime and crime on a grand scale, well organised.

122. I was too defiant to return to such an art school, so cramped, so bunged up with petty authority.

123. I gave a good class: there is nothing like teaching well for making one forget oneself and one's petty troubles.

124. Fakhru heard the remark, but said nothing; he preferred not to ruin a good business deal with petty religions differences.

125. We have demonstrated against petty apartheid because we are taking on the entire system of apartheid on all fronts.

126. In fact, only King Richard Petty, who shares with Earnhardt the record for championships, was ever so beloved.

127. The examples are purposely petty because tiny details of everyday life do preoccupy parents and consume-even distort-their judgment and self-regard.

128. So can a person caged in corporate life begin to assume huge anxieties about petty annoyances.

129. We now have to buy it from our petty cash.

130. It requires investment in good governance and tackling petty corruption.

131. Personally they are petty, self-indulgent and vengeful to a degree that suggests galloping megalomania.

132. Most burglaries are the work of petty thieves on the look our for an easy opportunity.

133. Mr Petty is hoping to gain market share by lowering prices on popular menu combinations under a new three-tiered pricing program.

134. Torture is also routine in criminal investigations, even for the most petty offense.

135. Her petty jealousy and deep ambivalence about Dickinson explode through her schoolmarm prose.

136. Whoever succeeds Kinnock, these differences are unlikely to get in anyone's way. Petty rivalries and jealousies will.

137. Tom Petty knew a good thing when he saw it.

138. Borrowing money from colleagues at work, petty cash, or from neighbours is a fast way of making yourself unpopular.

139. Habitual petty thieves and drug addicts dumped on top of their already bulging caseload become their newest clients.

139. try its best to gather and make good sentences.

140. It signified a disciplinary code of considerable imagination, a vast armoury of Chief Constable's powers, both petty and absolute.

141. She had done nothing to deserve Deana's petty jibes, and suddenly it was too much.

142. Before they met me, Steve and Paul were just petty criminals, didn't know nothing about nothing.

143. Many of them get into petty crime to support their habit.

144. If the government no longer differentiates between petty crime and murder, why should they?

145. How do three-strikers endure the thought of spending life in prison for a relatively petty crime?

146. Each petty sessions area has an allocated care centre to which cases may be transferred if the relevant criteria are met.

147. These measures increased the sometimes petty and patronizing intervention of officials in poor families.

148. I had better go now and pay my respects to the petty bourgeoisie.

149. He idly wondered if Joscelyn had returned to his old ways and was engaged in some petty smuggling.

150. His fees were petty and he didn't bleed his patients with leeches or use strange zodiac charts and stupid incantations.

151. He has convictions there for a number of theft and similar petty crime offences since leaving St Patrick's.

152. One member shone out from this picture of lethargy and petty corruption.

153. The screenplay focuses on the incongruous and interdependent friendship between a dimwitted stud and a petty con man.

154. Now our elected representatives are learning firsthand how petty and obnoxious federal regulation can be.

155. He was wildly irreverent, too, and loved nothing better than defying rules and deflating self-important petty officials.

156. Hayley's crimes are petty and dishonourable, a contrast which reveals the falsity of the narrative assumptions Philip makes.

157. To this point his life was otherwise full of nothing but the petty disputes that entertained church people and bored everyone else.

158. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop 

159. Petty theft and pickpocketing are becoming increasingly common in the city centre.

160. A second concern 15 to examine petty commerce in the context of various modes of production in capitalist social formations.

161. On the rare occasions when he was angry, Lowry could be spiteful and petty.

162. Marx himself might have viewed these small-scale marketers as resembling petty commodity producers more than petty capitalists.

163. First, her brother is self-evidently a petty fraudster better off behind bars.

164. Hated it for its bleak isolation and petty preoccupation with the work of fences and confinement.

165. Schools are often the target for petty acts of vandalism and urban schools in particular sometimes suffer from graffiti attacks.

166. But we kept pushing forward and we fought fair and we tried not to be petty.

167. Catesby, if he had stayed, might have put a restraining hand upon the petty malice of his comrades.

168. Their vision was of functionally integrated systems and ordered hierarchies, transcending the atomized, petty divisions of party politics.

169. There have been several reports this year of petty theft and one violent incident.

169. try its best to collect and build good sentences.

170. Reynolds became involved in petty crime at a very young age.

171. Apart from farmers, even the old petty bourgeoisie have grown or remained stable as a proportion of the labour force.

172. I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons, like here lack of smiling.

173. Never give in, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. Winston Churchill 

174. Petty crime was commonplace. Serious crime was the stuff of stairhead gossip.

175. Then he went back for a week and found he could no longer take the petty office politics.

176. The meeting spent too much time on petty issues, and didn't address the real problem.

177. After the rebellion of 1817 - 18 the judicial powers of headmen were limited to trying petty cases.

178. Athelstan watched the scene around him and tried to keep his mind free of Benedicta and the petty jealousies which nagged him.

179. There were so many petty rules and regulations that some companies stopped trying to export their products.

180. There had been a rash of petty thefts in the hotel and we were all warned to be vigilant.

181. These items are usually paid for out of the petty cash.

182. This is not a buck here or a buck there in the petty cash till.

183. The vast majority were, for example, petty thefts, acts of vandalism, and minor assaults.

184. If you work in retailing, you may be asked to look after the petty cash.

185. It may seem petty to distinguish between the plural and singular form, and therefore unnecessary to include both in the index.

186. Mine hunting director petty officer Simmo Simmons calls up the image on to his table screen.

187. I was just making small talk and some of it was the most petty talk that I've ever heard!

188. Why in such wretched circumstances, faced by such great dangers, did they still prosecute these petty feuds?

189. Not that his pursuers would be distracted from finding him by such petty secrecy.

190. I hate the crabbed and the mean and the petty.

191. A dominant theme in these portrayals is criminality in East End communities: small-time crooks, petty crime and drinking clubs.

192. A better approach is to continue to be friendly and businesslike, while totally ignoring their petty comments.

193. He knew nothing about drill, but learned the necessary movements from books and soon gained promotion to chief petty officer.

194. In the strict hierarchy of the Catalan countryside these peasant farmer families almost ranked as a petty nobility.

195. The depositions touch on rumors of illegal drug use, extramarital affairs and petty squabbling.

196. They are convicted of physical harm or damage infrequently and they are in general petty and trivial offenders.

197. The petty cashier must always account for a certain fixed sum of money. 2.

198. That other sailor was later identified as Jonathan Rushin, a 23-year-old petty officer third class.

199. Amongst them were pickpockets, alcoholics, pimps( ), drug peddlers and other petty criminals.

200. Chief Petty Officer John Strange was badly injured during a missile attack.

201. Completion and interpretation of petty cash transactions. 3 Materials and Stationery Use and control; methods of economy.

202. In such petty ways some revenge was taken on the wealthy transient.

203. So, you see, even these minor distinctions felt like petty theft.

204. Johnson had two prior convictions for residential burglaries and a history of petty crimes.

205. In contrast, petty theft has a very low rate of reporting to the police, and a low detection rate.

206. This bitter struggle was personified by the Soong family, for years rent by political differences and petty jealousies.

207. Petty - bourgeois fanaticism can be good for you.

208. He was also petty, unreasonably querulous, and mean.

209. Making Disbursements from the Petty Cash Fund.

210. Isn't it loathsome! Isn't it petty!

211. Gossip: sociologist on a mean and petty scale.

212. Smith must needs wade in and delay the business with petty objections.

213. Hualong net news Chongqing has submitted 100 petty loan company's application, obtains the authorization hopefully majority.

214. To improve the quality of education in petty officer need a criterion to measure it firstly.

215. “We’re making sure that everybody is aware of what’s in store for them, ” says US Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty Officer Steve Carleton.

216. In my study, I drew the conclusion that the petty loan on credit is policy.

217. Knowing full well that men could abolish poverty, you are nevertheless aware of its eternity and you feel a bitter anxiety in which man appears in all his petty inconsequence.

218. Lower interest rates lured in the petty investors to speculative stocks that most of them pay no dividends and do not have much tangible value.

219. If you require a building permit the petty official concerned will obviously get more pleasure from saying "No" than from saying "Yes".

220. In a world preoccupied with consumerism and petty self - interest, that gives life dignity.

221. The book is likely to shatter the myth that America's great writer and humorist was a cheerful old man, instead detailing his petty rages and uncomplimentary views of contemporaries, critics said.

222. Most petty criminals support each other in any dealings with the police but they will not hesitate to put the finger on a child molester.

223. After going straight for a bit, he will return to petty thieving.

224. Our planet may burn, millions may die, and cities such as Moscow and New York may smoulder, but at least we will be free of petty regulation and bureaucracy. It seems a stiff price to pay.

225. The alley is the world which Eileen Chang looks around , it has manifested petty bourgeois's life condition, has represented the human nature happiness.

226. Antilapanese National United Front is composed of the Communist-led masses, which include the proletariat, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie.

227. Article 3 For the purpose of these Measures, the term "border trade" includes petty trade in the border areas, barter trade between border inhabitants and other forms of border trade.

228. How much be one god of the earth of Hashiqi sledge dog petty gain?

229. The district attorney disregarded petty criminals; he was after big game: the leader of the gang.

229.

230. Misdemeanors generally include crimes such as assault and battery, petty theft and public drunkenness.

231. To facilitate closeout, petty cash funds should be reconciled every 30to60 days.

232. The gentle wind, blowing open your petty brow tight, so fly back all the worry.

233. This means that the Wenzhou First batch Petty loan Company initiators start to emerge the water surface.

234. The petty loan company do not to shareholder and the connection side provide loan.

235. In truth, Han spent most of his childhood in the service of Garris Shrike, the leader of a trading clan that used abandoned street urchins as beggars and petty thieves.

236. In 1662, William Petty said that "Land is mother of wealth; labor is father of wealth and passive factor". David Ricardo pointed out that land was the key to value theory.

237. Whether does the petty loan company save the Zhejiang small and medium-sized enterprise?

238. He says he is petty bourgeois but actually he is bourgeois.

239. Let us now analyse the different sections of the petty bourgeoisie other than the peasantry.

240. There are also some petty commodities, soft drinks, fast food and local specialties.

241. What is different, at the present petty loan company were more in the credit from the tight macroscopic environment is placed has solved the small business loan difficult mission.

242. He was the petty official in the government office ( in feudal China ) .

243. Did he gain his precarious bread petty trade, by menial toil, by violence,() or by theft?

244. The petty cash account is debited only when the fund is first established.

245. Our anger was like the anger of children, passing quickly from one petty grievance to another.

246. In Germany they fight with the bourgeoisie whenever it acts in a revolutionary way, against the absolute monarchy, the feudal squirearchy , and the petty bourgeoisie.

247. Petty despots and tin-pot tyrants often pay lip service to democratic ideals to give their regimes an aura of legitimacy.

248. To replenish a petty cash fund means to replace the amount of money that has been spent, thus restoring the fund to its original amount.

249. Petty loan company in loan procedure flow, risk control basic duplication bank standard.

250. I mean the crime explosion, all the way from big crime down to petty larceny.

251. Net inn buys petty gain, because compressed the hire of hypostatic inn, everybody can think of above all is, decorate and the operation cost such as counterjumper salary, can have price advantage so.

252. Bruno is petty cagey . You have to keep an eye on him.

253. Consider the proliferation of reality television shows that allow us to voyeuristically observe the competitive, petty, and often mean-spirited behavior of the colorful cast of characters.

254. There was one man impervious to obstacles, impatient with petty calculation, undisturbed by latent tensions: the father of the European Community , Jean Monnet.

255. Our team leader isn't a petty skinflint, he's a Communist.

256. Petty niggling, mean tricks , bureaucracy, and Ah Q - ism are of no use at all.