Sentence examples similar to a petty expense from inspiring English sources

Kellaway, a columnist for The Financial Times (where Martin Lukes first appeared), knows this world better than most: the pointless rebranding exercises, the casual (and somehow defensive) sexism, the petty expense account padding and the functional alcoholism.

The change would force businesses to set up central databases to record every lease of a year or more, even for items such as coffee-machines that are now lumped into branch offices' petty expenses.

Since Guido's Order-Order blog went live in 2004, it has exposed MPs' petty expenses fraud, forced Peter Hain to resign from his cabinet post over undeclared campaign donations and, most spectacularly, brought down Damian McBride, Gordon Brown's political enforcer, in the Smeargate affair.

How does the family expect to pay for other petty expenses, such as gasoline, milk or... Merlot?

"People who could be helped to lead happy, constructive and crime-free lives are condemned to a petty criminality and a life of incarcerated violence at taxpayers' expense".

voguer, Fr.] A petty small-rate lawyer.

I became a petty bourgeois scribe.

A petty ignorant pretender to politicks.

This may seem like a petty concern.

But that is a petty detail.

He really is a petty, silly man.