Sentence examples for petty agencies from inspiring English sources
Similarly, retaining the CFTC, SEC and all the other grand and petty agencies and offices are misguided efforts to cling to a failed past and a failure to implement more effective, dynamic alternatives.
Thanks to all the technology we casually use every day, everyone from corporations to government intelligence agencies to petty criminals have the opportunity to snoop through our stuff on a level that would have been unimaginable just a couple of decades ago.
The U.S. Coast Guard was notified more than 11 hours after the first radar hit, said Petty Officer 2nd Class Barry Bena, the agency's spokesman.
What was needed was coöperation with other federal agencies, but for reasons both petty and obscure those agencies chose to hide vital clues from the investigators most likely to avert the attacks.
Congressmen could not resolve a petty disagreement over the extension of the agency's operating-authority bill, which expired on July 22nd.
But in recent years, various government agencies have set up similar programs for anyone reporting mainly petty crimes, some as minor as a motorist tossing a cigarette butt out the window.
As a result of the review's findings, Emanuel cut the number of credit cards available for city agencies from approximately 500 to only 30 and altogether eliminated their petty cash accounts.
He listed Police Department programs that responded to petty crimes and noise, as well as antigun initiatives and several programs that use courts and city agencies to focus on certain crimes and repeat offenders.
Congress, firmly in Republican control, has so far declined to halt the agency's backdoor expansion of the immigrant detention system or its evolving prioritization of petty immigration arrests over investigative work.
