Sentence examples for relatively minor matter from inspiring English sources

"It is too important to be derailed by this relatively minor matter," the paper said.

Although this discrepancy dealt with the relatively minor matter of who had first found the package, it also reflected upon the credibility of Durham and Fields, two of the Government's principal witnesses.

But if the Tennesseans get bent out of shape over a relatively minor matter like gun laws, can you imagine what they would do if something really important were on the line, like football?

"The lying was essentially the consequences of what seemed to be a relatively minor matter a long time ago, and I knew that they were so disproportionate, that you say 'this is something that you are going to try to get out of it'," he said during an interview on BBC2's Newsnight.

"If the Commissioner had been able swiftly to establish the facts relating to Mrs Miller's mortgages, and had been able to gather the documentation which would have allowed her (and has allowed us) to judge the relationship between the changes in bank base rate and the interest charged to Mrs Miller, this might have been a relatively minor matter," the committee said.

Even among those who oppose mandatory pledges, many consider this a relatively minor matter.

Today, what little the Americans say publicly about corruption usually concerns relatively minor matters.

I suspect my frustration sometimes manifests as irritation or impatience in response to unrelated, relatively minor matters.

Important outside Obama supporters say they're consulted rarely; others say it's usually on parochial or relatively minor matters.

"Issues of civil liberties, and the right to peaceful protest, cannot and should not be seen as relatively minor matters which can be set aside lightly," they said.

It's just odd that we're in the middle of a financial crisis in which speed clearly matters quite a bit, and yet people are still twiddling their thumbs over what seem like relatively minor matters.