Sentence examples for petty issues from inspiring English sources

Because seemingly petty issues typically are symbols of larger, critical issues, they deserve mediators' full attention.

They say the squabbling over petty issues has blocked a badly needed debate over Taiwan's economic future.

"The number of crimes will expand to include all sorts of petty issues, political repression, and restrictions on speech.

The political strategist David Garth, who was one of Mr. Carey's closest associates, once said of him: "Hugh Carey on the petty issues can be very petty.

"From such seemingly petty issues, drop by drop, separatism ripens, which sometimes becomes a stronghold for an even more dangerous evil, international terrorism".

Some of the Council members, moreover, were notorious for not getting along among themselves; and those were only the petty issues.

If the marginal Democrats are not re-elected, the Assembly could lose its Democratic majority -- not a petty issue for the speaker, Sheldon Silver, who decides voting priorities.

As an increasingly sorry caseload within France's court system testifies, it is a petty issue blown out of all proportion, one that ultimately creates nothing but hatred and violence.

Offbeat tales such as "Two Disagreeable Pigeons" lighten the truly affecting desolate vision that colours Highsmith's work, most powerfully expressed in "The Trouble with Mrs Blynn, The Trouble with the World", in which a dying woman's focus on a petty issue, her epiphany arriving too late, provides a perfectly proportioned allegory.

Initially, newspapers and TV channels reported that Sawan and Imran fought over a petty issue after a few drinks.

If your expertise is clear and highly respected, an annoying manager will usually back off, knowing that pursuing a petty issue with you can make them appear stupid if they cannot keep up with your points.