On the other hand, your calling him a moron wouldn't itself have mushroomed into a headline issue – even in petty Washington – if there weren't deep concerns about the president's state of mind to begin with.
Give specific details, even if it sounds petty or pedantic - this can include : what to bring, where it shall be held, and what you plan to do there.
Even as petty officials were used to mark the boundary of the state, they could blur this boundary.
You shouldn't violate your aesthetic values, even if those values are petty and tinsel-level lightweight.
Even if the specs are petty, the way we feel after these platonic breakups go down is legitimately painful and can haunt us for years.
Even if it's cheap, petty, greedy, and pathetic it's an accepted way of life in the stinkin' clink-clink.
Dismissing Morrison is just as knee-jerk, however, as idolizing her, even if it does offer the petty satisfaction of sticking two sacred cows -- the Nobel committee and multiculturalism -- with a single pin.
It found that 54% of respondents would be OK with their offices adopting security cameras to stop petty theft, even if the employers also plan to keep the cameras for performance assessments.
Having been subject to near-carbon copy prosecutions in the UK and the US, I can attest that those on the front lines who think they are serving their own success and bolstering their corporate reputations by engaging in corrupt behavior – even if they regard it as petty – are putting themselves and their colleagues at great risk.
His sons' squabbles seem petty by comparison, even if the sums involved are huge.Mukesh's new palace is in the same neighbourhood he lived in as a youngster.
"A coach who has a 12-year-old who can throw 80 miles an hour is going to have ear plugs in his ears even if the kid is sore," Dr. Petty told me.
