Sentence examples for trivial act from inspiring English sources

One employee said that she'd been sharply reprimanded after a security camera caught her in a trivial act of rebellion — turning around a poster that touted Pruitt's "Back to Basics" campaign.

The public official who commits a misdemeanor is instantly elevated into a felon; the one who performs even a relatively trivial act of principle is immediately cast as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Harming or stabbing someone isn't a trivial act.

Don't pretend cracking open your 360 or jailbreaking your iPhone is a trivial act.

But Holmes pointed to another trivial act that is now considered an unmatched lifesaver.

The removal of a Bible (King James Version of the New Testament?) from a POW/MIA "Missing Man" memorial table set up at an Ohio Veterans Administration (VA) clinic, on the face of it, seems a trivial act at best and an abridgement of Christian rights at worst.

There was a time when we sent men and women to Australia for anything from violence to almost trivial acts of larceny.

She saw him hit her mother once – this was the row that prompted their separation – and was troubled by his pleasure in trivial acts of cruelty.

He points to a long history of using the overly expansive wording of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to hit hackers accused of even trivial acts with serious charges.

Moreover, who among us could easily reject the prospect of being given great wads of cash for carrying out seemingly inconsequential, trivial acts – overstepping by just a few inches?

Rather, a sequence of seemingly trivial acts – removing grafitti from subway cars, apprehending fare dodgers, mending broken windows on housing estates – had combined to contain and then eradicate the city's crime wave.