In addition, there are no sentencing guidelines, so to speak, when it comes to the Brady cop designation, so a prosecutor can consign an officer to the Brady list for life, even for a single, minor instance of dishonesty.
Third, the higher courts, even as they unfailingly thwart sanctions in all but a few minor instances, have bent over backward to avoid making pronouncements that sanctions are categorically unavailable, deliberately keeping the sanctions issue in a state of low salience and at least nominal legal uncertainty.
Data from tests in which volunteers are asked how they would behave in various "heat of the moment" situations -- whether they would have sex with a minor, for instance, or act forcefully with a partner who asks them to stop -- have consistently shown that different states of arousal can alter answers by astonishing margins.
Instead of stressing problematic issues by emphasizing each minor instance of petty crime or intolerance, politicians and information media should support regeneration projects—even outside central areas, to address issues such as the difficulty to organize events similar to Mantova's well-known literary festival (Festivaletteratura) outside the historical center.
The Confederate brigade leaders performed, with the exception of Robert Ransom's unwillingness to commit his troops and a few other minor instances; Burton surmises that the blame of July 1 must lie with the overall commanders.
Along the way, he points out a number of mostly minor instances where Harrod the biographer got it wrong, and when Harrod the man turns up in the story Skidelsky describes him as "vain, petulant and tiresome".
"That's not to say that when you go through a broad investigation, you don't find isolated minor instances involving a number of different people -- not just Lou -- that have accumulated over the years.
I wanted to separate my stress over the news cycle from the more mundane or minor instances, but a complaint is still a complaint.
Often, what seems like one or two minor instances of name-calling are actually part of a much larger and intense, cross-platform campaign intended to intimidate and, sometimes, ruin a person's ability to work, go to school, and lead a healthy life.
In this instance, moreover, there are only two minor instances of violence on record involving persons of Japanese ancestry.
In negotiation, even minor instances of immoral behavior could damage your reputation and your organization's as well.
