Sentence examples for petty rules from inspiring English sources

Many businesses are entangled in petty rules when they seek to set up or expand.

We tried to rebel against the petty rules that prevented us being individuals.

Bruins Nation, like any of its equals, operates outside those petty rules.

I was evicted from several shelters more than once for breaking petty rules.

There are still powerful forces bent on keeping it in the darkness of petty rules and a harsh clerical judiciary.

Together, she and Charles set off for Paris, where they are soon stopped in their tracks by petty rules.

So, in austere postwar London, Stanley Holloway and his neighbours come over all bourgeois, instituting petty little rules, such as customs controls on the tube line.

Only petty bureaucratic-type people could envisage a God who is a petty rule-book-waving bureaucrat.

She's a free bohemian spirit, you see, beyond petty bourgeois rules – or so the film would have us believe.

But the young women who submit do so with a smile; petty airline rules are a small price to pay for the newfound freedom to travel and seek adventure.

Yet in its own low-key way, Adrian, Pandora and Nigel's red-sock insubordination against petty school rules and the authoritarian headmaster, Mr Scruton, can also be seen as a failed revolution against the prevailing Thatcherite values.