It will be a happy moment when petty distinctions like this, between fantasies and real life, disappear for good.
Rogers has tackled some tough subjects over the years -- divorce, death, the first day of school -- but he wasn't about to undermine the Neighborhood with petty distinctions between fresh and canned content.
Though 1 Hanson Place's cornerstone dedicates the building to the bank's depositors, who through their hard work and thrift "swept aside the petty distinctions of class and birth and so maintained the true spirit of American democracy," the bank's loan department was accused of redlining.
He is the son of a grammar school boy from a council estate and feels that he knew "all about petty social distinctions from an early age".
At 31, Mr. Petty has the distinction of having outlived the man he plays.
These laws erased the common-sense distinction between petty drug users and kingpins, sending even first-time offenders to jail for periods of 15 years to life.
"Do you know that what you did to the Indians was very wrong?" The petty rivalries, unspoken class distinctions and submerged sexual currents that lend tension to the workplace are also evoked with sly humor.
The distinction might seem petty, but it's far from it.
These distinctions may seem fine or petty but they matter because the five-a-day campaign has tapped into the trend for a smoothification of food.
It is concerned that the proposed measures make no distinction between those who were arrested for petty crimes, like shoplifting, and those arrested for more serious crimes.
Robert Peel's drive to ameliorate law enforcement saw petty treason abolished by the Offences against the Person Act 1828, which removed the distinction between crimes formerly considered as petty treason, and murder.
