Sentence examples for petty considerations from inspiring English sources

"Our politics are not dictated by such petty considerations".

Luckily, the latter-day buyers were above petty considerations relating to aesthetic harmony or condition.

Perhaps he could do the same for New York — not that such petty considerations are worthy of this exercise.

The idea is to suggest that her views have been changed not by petty considerations such as opinion polls or the pro-marriage declarations of rival politicians.

It has never been more important for the nation's leaders to be seen as rising above petty considerations about campaign war chests and big-money donors.

The number might suggest otherwise, but this is and always has been a young game, one that puts fun way above petty considerations like fairness – and never lets a race pass without the track turning into a 150CC mosh pit.

If the safety and order of the State were to be guaranteed, measures were inevitable, and they would be carried out without any petty consideration.

I wish he'd rise above the petty tactical considerations that have shrunk him over the past two years.

Indeed, a sense of wonder pervades French reviews of the car, as if the metaphysics of the Seville's very presence on European soil outweighed petty technical considerations.

Scholarship is the one field supposedly insulated from petty personal considerations of status, income level and the animal pleasures of dominating one's fellows.

Presidents are elected and paid to think bigger than the rest of us -- to not be constrained by petty political considerations -- even given the reality of the political environment in which they operate.