While they may appear to be only a petty public nuisance, they are part of a more noxious development — the privatization of public spaces and, ultimately, of public life.
Perhaps a software engineer was even rewarded for resolving a petty regulatory nuisance.
These interests are materially based and cause problems well beyond the petty nuisance of snoring.
Boredom is a driving force now in everything from prison riots and problem gambling to divorce and the kind of petty nuisance caused by kids during the long school holidays, when they're released from captivity only to become quickly fed up with all that freedom.
Much as he embraced domesticity, however, he relied on Nancy to relieve him of its petty nuisances, such as school and servant problems, and finding a home for his mentally ailing mother while he was out of town.
The fate of the damned involves little more than petty nuisances (cold coffee), monotony (blowing bubbles for all eternity), irritation (a maestro in a room full of banjo players), rich irony (dogs carrying mailbags and picking up after themselves) and, of course, heat ("Hot enough for ya?" says one of the damned to another, with the caption, "Nerds in hell").
If the Home Office's predictions turn out to be right, locals will gain the confidence to deal with petty nuisances themselves.
There are innumerable petty nuisances and rudeness that job seekers are forced to endure, leaving them to feel demeaned and belittled.
There are two ways to deal with such a situation: adopt a Zen-like calm in the hopes that everything will work out and that such petty nuisances aren't worth getting upset about, or get angry and make a scene.
I became a petty bourgeois scribe.
