Sentence examples for increasingly petty from inspiring English sources

In an increasingly petty election, his selection introduced a note of rare intellectual clarity.

Police officers, they contend, are arresting growing numbers of people for increasingly petty offenses.

Second, Mr Green, an erstwhile left-winger, fought an increasingly petty campaign that divided his own party.

And as the amount of money separating them has grown smaller, the fight has become increasingly petty, shrill and repetitive.

I can be assured that the book's publication will anger one of my competitors and lead to an exchange of increasingly petty correspondence in the letters section of a prominent book review, the publication of a snipey memoir or a lawsuit, preferably in London during the theater season.... my computer can be equipped to create, at my prompting, the sound of applause.

And since President Donald Trump took office, the Tucson court has focused on increasingly petty crimes.

I have no objection to the one star, or his other comments, but I refuse to be quiet in a community that is becoming increasingly hostile, petty and shallow to its neighbors.

Along the way, Moran fended off increasingly bizarre and petty disparagements, to my mind merely proving that some people find a successful, noisy, happy woman hard to take.

Smaller restaurants are also increasingly becoming victims of petty oil thefts, according to law enforcement officials.

Mothers complain that young men are falling victim to increasingly violent attacks over petty fallings-out or small debts.

1190 bce), significant records from Asia Minor ceased for many centuries, whereas local history in the Syro-Palestinian area was recorded in the inscriptions of petty dynasts increasingly under the shadow of Assyrian domination.