Rousseau, who put about the story that he had seen the jungle first-hand while in the army in Mexico, in fact never left France, and only joined the army after cheating his employer, a solicitor, out of a trifling sum of money and some stamps, for which he spent a month in jail in 1864.
Three months later governments were still arguing about where or indeed whether this money, a trifling sum in the scheme of things, should be spent.
Wouldn't there be some, among the crowds that always throng the square, just a few with still a modicum of humanity who, for a trifling sum, will take pride and joy in setting little birds free.
The Keidanren has called for better corporate governance, so perhaps Mr Toyoda feels he needs to set an example.Yet although ¥200 billion is not a trifling sum, Toyota did not go overboard.
That would be a trifling sum with which to set up a global media empire, but for the fact that B4U is a pure content business, which rents space on cable and satellite networks around the world, rather than building its own.
BMW, it emerged yesterday, paid the trifling sum of €299 to get the current cold front – named "Cooper" to advertise its Mini – before it started claiming lives.
The packets bet during the August 15th raid were altogether more trifling: sums of $50m or less.If a conspiracy theory at all were wanted, then an attack on the stockmarket rather than on the currency sounds more plausible.
The result is that thousands of properties will effectively be foreclosed upon for trifling sums of money after extremely short timelines, often without proper notice.
But by way of easing them into this new world, £300m of "transition" funding was eventually set aside: a relatively trifling sum, but every little helps.
For that trifling sum, you get to sway the direction of Labour's future, and, if enough of you sign up — many minds with but a single thought — the outcome will be anything but a trifle.
For that trifling sum, you get to sway the direction of Labour's future, and, if enough of you sign up many minds with but a single thought the outcome will be anything but a trifle.
