Sentence examples for a string of petty from inspiring English sources

The evidence at the time indicated that the men Davis killed had carried out a string of petty thefts that day, but there was an added problem: the third man killed by the unmarked American S.U.V. fleeing the scene.

Six years after the fire, he is locked in another cell -- this time in an adult prison, on the far less sensational charge of attempted robbery, the latest in a string of petty crimes that have nibbled away his adolescence.

'It's not going to happen,' they'd say, 'my vote's not going to happen.'" It is a feeling with which she can sympathise, as she says she had "consigned" herself "to never voting in my life", thanks to a string of "petty drug offences" that led to her first felony conviction at 25 and a last one six or seven years ago.

Mohammed B became involved in radical Islam at a local mosque after his mother died of cancer when he was 18. Known to police for a string of petty thefts and minor assaults, he apparently also made contacts with hardcore activists who were under sur veillance by the Dutch intelligence services.

Details of his life after he attended New York's prestigious Stuyvesant High School in the 1960s remain scarce, traced in a string of mostly petty arrests, hospital records, and a call to the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust last week from the Jungle Island zoo, where Poppo had been sleeping on the roof of the parking garage.

Mr. Junta insisted that Mr. Costin was the aggressor, and Mr. Costin's criminal record, which was not made known to the jury, lists a long string of petty crimes; he had been sentenced to jail 10 times for terms of 15 months or less.

A court in Manhattan yesterday threw out a judge's order that Mr. Bello, who had a string of arrests for petty crimes but had never spent a day in jail, be banned from watching television for 10 months to avoid jail again.

The cartel has also been implicated in a string of vigilante attacks on petty criminals in Jalisco – including six people who were recently found with their hands chopped off – and a string of attacks on state officials, including the murders of the tourism secretary and a federal lawmaker.

The defendant, Edward Bello, 60, had a string of arrests and several convictions for petty crimes but had never spent a day in prison.

But what followed was a string of mindless vitriol, misogynistic abuse and sheer, petty meanness.

He's a petty criminal with a string of convictions for things like cheque forgery but hasn't committed any similar offences as far as we know.