Sentence examples for paltry act from inspiring English sources

Would a superman like Napoleon torture himself over such a paltry act as the murder of a pawnbroker and her sister?

A working-class hoodlum, Gary kills a baby, goes to prison (with its "dirty glamour attaching to/Insane and paltry acts") and is courted by powerful people.

The House bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has paltry public support and could be difficult to pass in the Senate.

Paltry tokens like the Dream Act -- again, this shouldn't be presented as a huge favor to immigrants who have only known the U.S. as a home, and whose only crime was to have been brought over by their parents at a young age -- will not compensate for building ruthless exclusion into the system.

A paltry 8% of HARD festival acts from 2008-2013 womenwomen and, in a 2013 interview with WildSpice, Richards addressed these numbers by insisting that "I've been asked this question so many times that I feel like we need to develop it more.

It's a packed house for the two-act play that stretches my paltry Bislama skills way past their limit.

Aware that the promotion of the HRA had been paltry, I urged the Home Office to describe the Act as a bill of rights.

And they should be able to do so, as the court stressed, under standard habeas corpus procedures that allow them to present evidence and confront witnesses, and not under the paltry procedures outlined by the 2006 Military Commissions Act.

That number is a paltry 5percentt.

Independent journalists want their audience (as paltry as it sometimes may be) to re-act and then perhaps take action.

In 1986, the government implemented the Muslim Women's (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act to nullify the Shah Bano judgement, granting paltry alimony to Muslim women.