Sentence examples for minor affairs from inspiring English sources

European elections are usually minor affairs, marked by ever-falling turnout and high numbers of protest votes.

Since shows of painters' drawings are considered relatively minor affairs, the dinner was a small one (for about twenty people) and had a more relaxed and less complicated atmosphere than a full-scale show would have elicited.

Auden admits in a preface that some of the rhymes aren't new, having already appeared in his Homage to Clio, but that won't matter, he says, since they are minor affairs compared with Filippo's illustrations; and sure enough, Filippo has furnished a delightful sketch showing Socrates lecturing gently to a group of young people while Xantippe abuses him through a window.

"The Mississippi legislature has been meeting since the first Tuesday in January, and they have yet to get around to anything besides ways of strengthening every form of segregation," he said, and, permitting himself the luxury of a modest comment, added, "After they get that taken care of, they'll probably take a couple of weeks to settle the minor affairs of state business".

Minor affairs take on an unexpected sort of scale; what the story refers to as "following the history of every little country in the world" seems beneath the expense of compassion, as individual suffering once was below the interest of the wealthy.

All three were minor affairs, followed by apology and explanation.

WITH no television pictures to put the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea on the world's agenda, it has tended to be dismissed as a minor affair.

Although the National Football League was established in 1920 (at $100 a franchise), the professional game was a relatively minor affair until after World War II, when football joined baseball and basketball to form the "trinity" of American sports.

They wake up Cindy who's still in bed, and breakfast is accompanied by an argument over the way to serve and eat oatmeal, an apparently minor affair that subtly reveals a major fissure.

Yes, one of the characters has a habit of moving from body to body, but in a novel teeming with strange incidents this is treated as a minor affair.

(The Cambodian government regards him as a fugitive, having convicted him on charges of spreading false information).Their problem is that Hun Sen, who according to Mr Adams's calculations is one of the world's top-ten longest-serving political leaders, keeps on winning elections as he did again, just this week.In regional terms Cambodia's commune elections are a minor affair.