He was glad to fight, even though the fight pitted the puny Ford Motor Company against an industry worth millions of dollars.
Yet that number looks pretty puny set against the amount of council housing that has gone from London in recent times.
They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His.
"Anyway," he will add, in a final desperate defense of his pacific nature, "why should I pit my puny strength against the great Power that runs the universe?" Ellington wears a gold cross beneath his flamboyant plaids and bold checks, reads the Bible every day, along with Winchell and the comics, and has been known to say, "I'd be afraid to sit in a house with people who don't believe.
Many films, such as The Terminator movies, 2001, The Matrix, Blade Runner, to mention a few, pit puny humans against AI-driven enemies.
Each complaint has been filed on behalf of puny companies against well-heeled financiers who allegedly offered desperately needed capital and then profited by short-selling of shares all in the thinly regulated world of Bulletin Board stocks.
Their relationship kicks off a story that pits reason against religion, imagination against order, and genies against puny humans.
There are some superb luxury hotels, but with the Swiss franc so strong against our puny pound, you'll need deep pockets to enjoy them.
David Poltrack, head of research and planning at CBS, another broadcast network, reckons the networks have already felt most of the DVR's effects.Advertisers and television networks have pushed back even against this puny threat.
All credit to Mawer for writing a book whose real theme - as in Jack London's Yukon stories - is the sheer insignificance of puny humanity when set against environmental splendour.
