Sentence examples similar to in petty minded from inspiring English sources

And they frequently engaged in petty-minded bureaucratic squabbles with rival organizations.

His youth and inexperience, compared with that of the battle-tested officers whom he led (some were veterans of the battle of Waterloo) drew his naturally punctilious nature to manifest itself in petty-minded bullying: In 1833 he was publicly censured for "reprehensible...conduct" in a court martial held to determine charges he had laid against a subordinate.

But as I watch the excitement outside the hospital in Marylebone, my petty mind keeps straying to the tiny tots at the infant schools four miles away beside my house who I know are arriving each day starving hungry.

I can imagine these special little people in Town Hall and Macquarie Street giggling away as they pull their little regulatory levers, fudging the statistics and playing their petty little mind games in the media.

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.

Since then, Magnanini has been involved only in petty crime.

She was either ignored or criticized in petty detail.

A decrease in petty corruption was recorded across the country.

It's like Funkadelic said: free your mind and your ass will follow – in this case probably on to a crowded pavement at 40mph, but let's not get bogged down in petty detail.

Normally in petty acts of insubordination.

By this stage, Wills' cricket "had become a series of petty disputes in petty games" of "ever-deteriorating standards".