Sentence examples for petty procedure from inspiring English sources

This person does not have to be Obama himself but it probably does have to be someone very senior who is backed to the hilt by the president and who has an incentive system where the only measure of success is more or less oil damage, and thus for whom aggrieved bureaucrats (even senior ones) and petty procedure are irrelevant speed bumps to be crossed without even slowing down.

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.

Petty cash reimbursement policies and procedures.

Different levels of loss-to-follow-up in the interventions (12%%) and control arms (20 %) may have been because we improved follow-up procedures by identifying petty names midway thought the study, when most clusters were intervention clusters.

Most states' penal codes catergorize crimes as felonies or misdemeanors but New Jersey opted for "indictable," "disorderly persons," or "petty disorderly persons". As such, NJ criminal procedure does not reference crimes as felonies or misdemeanors.

Who invoked September 11, explicitly referencing "the World Trade Center aflame," in calling for the firing of any "petty bureaucrat" who might suggest that proper procedures be followed and that the separation of powers be respected?

Midway through the study, we observed that the names of participants in the log book were often not what the women were called by the community members in the village, so we subsequently modified our procedures to ask participants for the names (petty names) the community members usually called them.

People were sent to reeducation by public security agencies without trial or legal procedure; it was widely used for dissidents and petty criminals, according to Adrian Zenz, a lecturer in social research methods at the European School of Culture and Theology, in Korntal, Germany.

But his critics say he is a petty tyrant who has treated the tracks like a fief, running roughshod over contracting procedures and, in one case, giving a million-dollar contract to a company linked to organized crime.

Another, Senior Chief Petty Officer Jimmy Hatch, a member of a Navy SEAL unit, suffered a severe leg wound that required dozens of surgical procedures and an agonizing recovery.

Sorry — "petty"?