Injustice, war and petty-mindedness.
In fairness, nothing Mr. Mohamud does will appease all Somalis, who are notorious for their petty-mindedness, their tendency to focus on their grievances, their constant warring.
Their gridlocked government has created a sense that the United States, like Rome before it, has succumbed to decadence and petty-mindedness.
Bacri and Jaoui understand the necessary comforts of closed circles, but they also hate the petty-mindedness that goes with comfort.
And that's because style is the enemy of middle-of-the-road thinking — of what Fraser called "meanness, calculation, petty-mindedness, and the base fear of going out on a limb".
The men (and occasionally women) who went in search of the headwaters of Africa's longest river displayed superhuman resilience and courage, and the all-too-human frailties of vanity, cruelty and petty-mindedness.
The screwball comedies are less about possessions than about a certain style of freedom in love, a way of vaulting above the dullness and petty-mindedness of the sticks.
He wrote alleging an illegally parked car, provoking an incandescent reply from Halliwell lambasting the petty-mindedness of the council and pointing out that they did not have a car.
They might never have found out about each other, John O'Neill might never have left the FBI, the World Trade Centre might still be standing, the world would be a different place, had it not been for the eternal human flaws of envy, pride, petty-mindedness and vanity from which errors of judgement flow and tragedies invariably unfurl.
The song is a companion of sorts to Bentley's massive hit Drunk on a Plane, another track about getting over a breakup, but where that song found Bentley getting drunk because he was feeling depressed, this one finds him getting drunk out of pure petty-mindedness instead.
