Sentence examples for petty stream from inspiring English sources

It is the historian who has decided for his own reasons that Caesar's crossing of that petty stream, the Rubicon, is a fact of history, whereas the crossing of the Rubicon by millions of other people before or since interests nobody at all".

The argument about the stamp was just one more in a long stream of petty but bitter arguments we'd been having for months.

After 13 years in power, deep public opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a stream of petty scandals, Labour still managed a respectable performance and to retain its bedrock constituencies.

The 40-year-old was a vital player in a wider scheme which systematically targeted Asian families, as well as jewellers and bank customers, by using a steady stream of Colombian petty criminals smuggled into Europe with fraudulently-obtained Mexican passports to carry out break-ins across the country over a three-year period.

In recent years a constant stream of such tiresomely petty controversies have made him a badly reduced figure – and yet it is easy to see why the faithful stick with him.

I aspire to be as petty as taylor swift releasing her discography for streaming the weekend katy perry's album drops.

Two studies have found breakdown rates to be negatively correlated with SC (Fritz et al. 2010; Petty et al. 2013), but both studied limited selections of streams.

Leaf-litter processing rates are often reduced in mining-influenced streams with elevated TDS/SC, relative to reference streams (Simmons et al. 2008; Fritz et al. 2010; Petty et al. 2013), although it is uncertain if elevated major ions are the causative factor.

The blast of energy that informs this petty larceny is completely his own, though, and the movie seems to skateboard through his stream of consciousness.

Employing stream-of-consciousness and a profanity-filled Glasgow vernacular, the novel told the story of an alcoholic petty criminal who wakes up on the street, badly beaten and completely blinded after a two-day bender.

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