Sentence examples for more than petty from inspiring English sources

But, in practice, some are often little more than petty extortionists.

China's media, for example, are forbidden to investigate anything more than petty consumer-related corruption cases.

Witherspoon has blogged about the threats: The approach they're taking seems to me little more than petty bullying.

But their indifference to all that happened in Lisbon is further proof that their opposition to New Start is nothing more than petty obstructionism.

In a country wrestling with health and obesity issues, it seems more than petty to complain that thousands of newly minted athletes are spoiling it for the fleeter few.

Specifically, the film deals with the insurmountable difficulties facing mentally ill inmates once they are set free, often with little more than petty cash, a ticket out of town and two weeks' worth of medication.

Water is more important than petty feuding nationalisms and achieving water security is a more life-threatening issue to us all than the war on terrorism.

Far from the gangland assassin portrayed in early media reports, Brinsley was in fact little more than a petty criminal.

The truth seems to be that he could bear grand and terrible trials more easily than petty annoyances.

He said a royal commission should be held to examine the AFP's conduct of the case "because it's almost as if police didn't want to find any more other than petty criminals like 19-year-old Scotty Rush".

Needlessly complicated, life already has more than enough petty dramas.