Sentence examples for petty election from inspiring English sources

In an increasingly petty election, his selection introduced a note of rare intellectual clarity.

When it looked like the news couldn't get any worse, it did: worse in a way that dwarfed our petty elections and clueless, pendulum analyses, worse in a way that dusted the present with the irrelevance of history.

The Prime Minister told a delighted audience of the Labour faithful at a May Day rally in London yesterday that he intends to carry on at the head of government without allowing it to be diverted from the task of winning the next election by petty division on policies, procedures, or personalities.

And he's forced the abject chroniclers of the petty pacings of the election cycle to question what they are observing, and to wail at the seeming nonsense of a man, twice defeated, courting a third defeat amid conditions that will be even more difficult to surmount than they were the last time.

Second, elections eliminate petty politics.

President Nicolas Sarkozy broke with tradition and decided there would be no amnesty for petty driving offenses to accompany his election.

Suddenly all the petty, diversionary issues that can dominate an election campaign seemed petty and trivial.

The only thing the media will talk about in the hours and days after the debate will be Trump's refusal to say he will accept the results of the election, making him appear small, petty and conspiratorial.

Maybe they're up for grabs, or maybe they've followed the lead of many other Americans in this dispiritingly petty political season and are opting out the election entirely.

Tucker also didn't mention turnout, which stagnated at a petty 46percentt as the main opposition boycotted the election.

And if the response is any indication, the 2020 presidential election stands to be just as petty and absurd and heated as 2016 contest.