Sentence examples for would be trifling from inspiring English sources
Yet the experts agree that these numbers don't add up: even if every last American became conscientious about his or her carbon emissions, the effects on climate change would be trifling, if for no other reason than that two billion Indians and Chinese are unlikely to copy our born-again abstemiousness.
If the point were purely terminological then it would be trifling but an important philosophical point is at stake here.
If the Senate truly respected the Constitution it is sworn to uphold, it would not be trifling with the Bill of Rights and its precious guarantee of freedom of speech.
On Wednesday, at a hearing with Fran Mainella, the park service director, Mr. Skeen, the longest-serving House member in New Mexico's history, demanded and received verbal assurance that the lunchroom would not be trifled with.
"I would warn the young men of New York," Ms. Ward said, "that she's not somebody who would let herself be trifled with".
Nor would Rand, sooner than any other desert prophet, allow her message to be trifled with.
Aunt Julia was not to be trifled with.
It is not to be trifled with.
People not to be trifled with.
He's not one to be trifled with… No.
Thriller fans are not to be trifled with.
