Sentence examples for petty interest from inspiring English sources

Among some Circle members and media folk, there is personal, petty interest in seeing me maligned.

And hopefully, have a council that can work with him to create hope and not be dealing with petty interest groups only.

First, he demonstrated a petty interest in the size of the crowd that attended his inauguration.

Election campaigns seemed to revolve around popular personalities and petty interests, not the great philosophical questions he had imagined would drive democratic debate.

If ever there was a time for New York's political forces to set aside petty interests and come together for the common weal, this is it.

"The opposition leaders have shown that they are very vain, and that their petty interests are more important to them than our larger interests as a country," Mr. Samardzic said.

That drawing back of the curtain of power and glamour to reveal an interior world of petty interests and human-sized practical problems seems to be there in Veep.

Has India's politics and economy become hostage to petty interests, helped abundantly by a government which is seen as effete and weak?

It also requires people to relinquish their own petty interests in the service of a greater whole.

Some of these politicians (who would form the Conservative Party in the 1840s) believed that a neutral figure was required one who could stand above political factions and petty interests to address discontent and moderate disputes.

"The political process is not complete, and the Macedonian Parliament must set aside any petty political interest, and complete its part of the settlement that was struck at Lake Ohrid," he said.