Sentence examples for petty infringements from inspiring English sources
Juraev, a member of the Erk opposition party and a former local mayor in southern Uzbekistan, was sentenced to nine years in jail in 1994 but had the term repeatedly extended because of petty infringements.
Attempts to criminalize petty infringements of intellectual property by private individuals were thrown out, while the ability of intellectual property owners to demand bank and computer information on suspected pirates was restricted to serious cases.
Naturally, there is much here for Townsend to sport with, and her portrait of Britain under Jack Barker's Cromwell Party, most notable for draconian, petty infringements of individual liberty that include banning stepladders and novelty slippers and putting Stephen Fry under house arrest, is, if not familiar, then interestingly imaginable.
Reiss does something else that grated on me, although it's only a petty infringement in the context of this treatment's larger transgressions.
We are told what sports we can enjoy, where we are allowed to smoke tobacco, what discipline we can impose on our children and a whole host of other petty and serious infringements on our freedom.
Most people regard Mr López Obrador's legal infringement as petty and even frivolous compared with what many PRI leaders have got away with in the past.
The bank has denied this many times.Others believe that the law must be upheld, however petty it may seem and however casual the infringement.
