Sentence examples for At petty from inspiring English sources

At Petty's final race, at Atlanta Motor Speedway in November 1992, I asked his wife, Lynda, if there was a sense of relief that he would finally stop risking his life after 35 years.

Theirs was a fatal attraction, with the abusive no-good carnival barker stabbing himself after failing at petty crime, then being denied admission to the pearly gates.

Robertson, who plots to win promotion by besmirching his colleagues' reputations, is pretty good at petty office politics, even when he's really messed up.

It was his sons who had yearned for the "fabled capitalist West" — or at least, his son Karl, who was adept at "petty hustling" and wanted to hustle on a larger scale.

There are some proximate causes, including fury over scandals (one involving a famous monastery) that seem egregious even to a nation that reveres the church and often winks at petty larceny.

There's something satisfying about the way Sleepy Hollow grabs the high camp of the plot with both hands, hacking away at petty trifles like logic or reason, while whipping up a heady gumbo of witchcraft, apocalyptic prophecies and occult rivalries.

DOUANGDARA, John, 26, Master-at-Arms Petty Officer First Class; South Sioux City, Neb.

There is also the risk that such attacks will be seen as petty at a time of a national economic crisis.

In that context, the wrangling over Issa's committee seems, at best, petty – and, at worst, the kind of distraction that allows corrupt systems to stay in place while enforcers waste time hunting down individual felons.

The MoD's, or Whitehall's, or whoever's plans to designate Trident's Faslane base "sovereign UK territory" earlier this week seemed, at best, petty – an attempt at humiliation timed to balance Andy Murray's cheering victory.

So Beijing continues to make an instrument of history in ways small and large, at times curiously petty, at others disturbingly brutal.