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Speaking of advancements, I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate the newest class of chief petty officers.
From the fresh recruits to the four chief petty officers in the team, all the team members involved themselves in the work.
A new method of delivering leadership training to chief petty officers is now part of the continual growth and development of Sailors.
Jordan, who is eligible for promotion to chief petty officer this year, said the award makes staying in the Navy all the sweeter.
He was on temporary duty aboard the Pueblo, assigned after another chief petty officer could not make the trip.
She was supported by all the left and radical parties including the NSSP as well as all the various bourgeois and petty bourgeois Tamil parties.
Maybe you're a chocolate addict, ever ready to spend your petty cash on another bar of Snickers.
But his good work was nipped due to power hungry petty politics in sport, which is the bane in most sport bodies, here.
I take my petty troubles and watch them pale into insignificance beside the enormity of the battles you fight.
It limits our horizons, narrows our imaginations, and encourages an obsessive preoccupation on the personal and petty aspects of our lives.
Our attachment to all the petty judgments and opinions and chatter endlessly flowing through our own heads is how we keep God at bay.
Most often, this implies a life on city streets begging, panhandling, petty theft, and using charity and soup kitchens close to the drug source.
Verbal aggression, insulting and rude behaviour, disregard for the rights of others, petty thieving and shoddy work were the norms.
He doesn't have time for his family's petty squabbles, or lounging around in bars with his mates.
Another neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said petty crime and teenage drink binges also plagued the estate.
Remembering them daily, learning from them how to sublimate our petty ego to reach the higher self, we transcend sin.
What is the connection between architecture, which is big and perdurable, and petty artifacts cutely arranged but utterly ephemeral?
I was also tempted to go out to my car and get my gloves but felt that the gloves were a minor and petty concern when there was a missing cat.
Then there are the petty differences in industrial standards and regulations from country to country.
Your father and my husband began to have problems with each other, regarding petty matters of business.
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Certainly the petty political squabbles could prove embarrassing if extensively reported on.
It is perhaps because these matters are so petty and trivial in appearance that they afford so excellent a training.
It's fun to watch when the candidates start arguing between themselves, squabbling like petty children.
I've already experienced, in a very minor way, the petty rules that are an everyday fact of life in Iran.
She was afraid he'd find her silly for becoming so upset over such a petty matter.
The workers said the dispute was also about an arrogant management culture and petty rules and regulations.
Harmony is created when we treat one another, and ourselves, with respect and when we put aside our petty concerns for the good of the whole.
I knew that Holly understood my reasons no matter how pathetic or petty they might seem to be.
It diminishes the importance of real problems if they are lumped together with petty complaints.
When I wasn't talking to Reger, I was dealing hundreds of small petty matters concerning the ceremony.
He listened to all her problems, no matter how petty and insignificant, and offered solutions, never once laughing.
In return, Auckland City has been governed by petty squabblers who indulge in personal attacks on each other.
On last night's Question Time a girl said that all burglars and petty criminals should be shot.
For that matter, why these petty distinctions between clothing and food, sporting goods and home decor?
This snooty imagery is aided by the fact that the band are still teenagers and sing about the sometimes petty concerns of their age.
As such, he is the object of much spiteful envy and petty jealousy from members opposite.
Surely Mother Nature meting out carnage on such a grand scale shows just how petty and futile man-made squabbles really are.
It was a petty tactic to try and dupe the officials and undermine a generally well natured game.
Aren't we all, too much into trivial matters and petty thinking and driven by insatiable greed?
More widely known for its petty squabbles and back-biting, the women's game closed ranks in support of Morariu.
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No matter how childish, no matter how petty or wrong she'd been I was always on her side.
Dropping the appeal to the privy council was a matter of petty nationalist self aggrandisement.
But Chaudhuri insisted that neither his views, nor any one else's, would have caused Nehru to wreak a petty act of revenge.
By the time I reached home I had to admit that I'd been small, petty and spiteful.
If you disagree with Berlind's points then by all means criticise, but low blows at his use of language are petty and unnecessary.
Envy is one of the worst feelings in the world because it's petty and spiteful.
The president's closest advisor recklessly betrays a state secret for petty revenge.
But it may just be that this vision has in fact been their focus and it has aroused petty jealousy and envy.
The meager funds provided by government for medical facilities in rural areas are squandered away by local petty officials.
Children and adolescents disrupted public order by committing petty thefts and larceny, not by becoming drunk and disorderly.
In these circumstances the case would be heard in the common law courts of assizes, quarter sessions, or petty sessions.
Instead of projecting a coherent alternative view, it did little more than reflect the petty fears haunting today's Quebecers.
Nearly all were poor, young and single convicted for petty crimes, usually theft.
Many of the cases they cited included the harassment of black workers and youth like Thomas, or their arrest for petty infractions.
As for society, it needs to confront its petty phobias, paranoid fears and recognize the self in the other.
Incidents of petty vandalism are rising at the church, and there have been fights in the churchyard.
These petty slurs have been rubbished by the business consortium and players alike.
I know I should be mature and sensible and rise above any feelings of petty envy.
But then a body which has rarely sought the consent of its citizenry can have no complaints when it is seen as a distant and petty bureaucracy.
But a row that was once as passionate as it was petty seems to have lost its oomph.
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Each mayor is more interested in the day-to-day issues that concern people than the petty irrelevances of party political meetings.
He has no dream of a democracy that sometimes rises above shallow, petty party politics and actually does great things.
This afternoon I want to talk about an issue that should concern the whole House and should be above petty party politics.
For far too long now, election campaigns in this country have been devoid of issues and dominated by petty issues and personality clashes.
Everyone knows this notion of classlessness is false, since nothing stimulates petty snobberies more immediately than a garden.
If there's something absolutely petty going on, just stay clear of it and get out of the way, because it just boils up.
The lovestruck Liberals paid this petty tattle no mind and even bought a house together last spring.
We are not hostile or petty little nationalists, but true patriots of Yorkshire.
Once upon a time there was a petty bourgeois intellectual born into the dying culture of a declining empire.
Unfortunately, at 14, Michael was interested in smoking reefer, petty larceny, hookers, LSD and basketball.
He was a petty thief jailed for 15 years, but released by King Abdullah in a traditional amnesty given when the king ascended the throne.
She does not like the movie her mother's lodger has, in a fit of petty spite, given her mother and her free tickets to see.
Why can't a boy tug at America's heartstrings without facing petty locker-room humiliation from the viewing public?
He's got a record as long as your arm, starting with petty theft and working his way up to your house.
The sources do not distinguish between administrative and political corruption or between petty and grand corruption.
In spite of those petty quibbles, I'm guessing she's been deluged with responses, for all the reasons I mentioned.
These groups were the intelligentsia, civil servants, the labour aristocracy, and successful petty producers.
It had become a bit of a joke for any ensign or petty officer new to rank and ship with him.
However, petty squabbles begin to drive the team apart just before their rematch with the Yankees for the league championship.
Plants to look out for include sneezewort, meadow thistle, petty whin, pale dogviolet, early purple and heath spotted orchids.
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Think about a fairly new petty officer or ensign dealing with a new system.
Many Ukrainians feel that they have witnessed a electoral theft that makes the Florida miscount look like a petty candy shoplifting spree.
Chomsky himself has made some of the most deplorable, petty and doubtless sectarian attacks of any leftist I know.
Last Sunday there were some narky, petty exchanges and some fisticuffs but there were hardly any thunderous collisions.
Many supported their habits through shoplifting, petty theft, or prostitution.
Johannes allegedly has a history of petty crime and was out on bail awaiting court proceedings against him.
I punched and kicked and even resulted in petty hair pulling while she wildly thrashed her arms trying to scratch me.
In the early period there is little clear difference between powerful jarls and the many petty kings who flourished in Denmark and Norway.
The teachers collected up their petty cash and came up with a sum somewhere between five and ten pounds.
However, there's no point wasting precious time and effort on petty jealousy.
We'd go on, but disputing these petty points is the quicksand of journalism.
Think of those you love and don't spend what may be your last days bickering about petty things.
Cited instances of anti-Americanism include an extremely wide spectrum of disapproval, from petty claims to sensible criticisms.
A petty thief is seen pulling off a cheap scam on a shopkeeper by a major league con-artist who recruits him for a big job.
It was felt that they would be far better employed dealing with crime, petty vandalism, drugs and joyriding in the villages.
Without being petty or mean-spirited, she explained why what had so persuaded me had left her so unmoved.
The association soon fell into disarray due mainly to the petty in fighting among the less advanced worlds.
Will you blink an eye for them if the banderlats tear them to pieces or will you drown your guilt in petty self righteous doubletalk?
No longer can people sanely and rationally discuss important issues without becoming petty and personal.
When it is your shop's day, a petty officer is selected to watch selected maintenance evolutions.
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In contrast to the situation in the United States, Gujaratis in Britain are still predominantly working class or petty bourgeois.
It is a clear testimony of how petty and directionless the opposition politicians have become and clearly drags the democratic process backwards.
He likes to hint darkly of terrors that would set all such petty concerns at naught.
On the other hand, dispatching the form electronically will at least overcome such petty frustrations.
This can easily rear its head here in drug gangs and petty crime like vandalism without any encouragement.
Far be it from me to stoop to petty insinuations and suggestions, just to illustrate a point.
How did he end up falling for her during all of their petty arguments and disagreements?
It boasted offices, a county records depository, cells for petty prisoners, accommodation for women prisoners, a yard and an infirmary.
He turned to a life of petty thievery when his friend managed to steal a gold coin from a weary traveler.
They resort to petty thievery to make a few extra bucks and, by chance, end up videotaping a mob hit that lands them in water over their heads.
Local radio news bulletins are jammed with reports of muggings and vicious petty criminals.
Layfield was recognized for his outstanding duty as leading petty officer aboard USS Kitty Hawk.
That qualified me to enter the Navy as a third class petty officer and I am enjoying the opportunity to work on this staff.
What advice do you expect to get from a xenophobic Cold War warrior dripping in petty prejudices and half-baked homilies?
Lad culture has done nothing more than perpetuate petty hatred between the sexes.
Ernest Perez, a 12-year Navy veteran who separated from the service as a petty officer first class, works as a civilian on the base.
You truly were going to send her to prison and bother me with putting this young lady on trial for a petty larceny?
After leaving school, Rasul studied law in Birmingham, and Iqbal took odd jobs and became involved in petty crime.
She plays a petty shop owner in a village, whose idea of a joke is pulling a fast one on customers.
Effective prevention of petty crimes such as theft will enable the police to focus their efforts on cracking down on hard crime.
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They might have beheaded heretics and adulterers and amputated the limbs of petty thieves but they didn't bother us.
Who needs a doting husband anyway when you've got money, malls and lots of petty activities to amuse you?
A separate investigation is ongoing into the disappearance of petty cash from the Council's Planning Office.
It was clear that some of our players put petty disagreements above devotion to the cause and we all paid the penalty.
The standard isn't any different for a petty theft arrest than it would for the arrest of a capital crime.
The hardest workers among you may become chief petty officers, warrant officers and commissioned officers.
There is also a reminder that cash must not be kept on the company premises with the exception of petty cash.
For all the intricacies of the spat, it smacks of political one-upmanship, petty power play and a healthy dose of ego juice.
The petty point-scoring highlights the deepening antagonism between the rivals.
He relies on cultural backwardness and the most right-wing elements in the petty bourgeoisie, whom he positions against the working class.
Many live off petty trade, selling goods on the pavement in the market area.
Our overcrowded jails is another avenue through which petty crooks graduate to hardened criminals.
All administrative talent is killed, and the masses have to be satisfied with petty village offices and clerkships.
Personal pickiness is rather petty in debating and does nothing to further thoughtful comment.
Too often we busy ourselves with petty distractions, in order to escape the confrontation with reality.
How long should he suffer these perennial indignities that seem part and parcel of involvement with petty politicians and a parochial press?
Not only are most journalists covering the presidential campaigns anxious, grudging careerists, one among their number is also a petty thief!
I've seen an ugly, petty side of people that I'd rather not have known about.
They are mean and petty and will fight each other to the death over one little tiny nut.
On the actual day of the murder, he had been arrested and taken into the lock-up on a charge of a very petty theft.
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It is time to put petty partisan politics aside, and unite for the common good of humanity.
Of course, history has been replete with despotisms and petty dictatorships.
Let the good that he did live after him, and the evil be interred with the petty theses of small-minded philosophers.
But the good of the sport and the enjoyment of the fans should not be sacrificed for the sake of money or petty politics.
We sat down to lunch and discussed petty things and neatly sidestepped upsetting topics.
The Liddell plan would create a chaotic parliamentary map of Scotland resembling the petty sovereignties of the Holy Roman Empire.
It's an anarchic assemblage of petty autocracies with numerous additional charismatic nobles advising the autarchs.
For decades, petty rules, silly laws and frivolous lawsuits held no power over Common Sense.
The rest of us were told to hush up with our petty concerns about foreign entanglements, airport privatization, and what have you.
By the fall of 1956, the movement was in full decline-its strength sapped by controversy, petty infighting, and public apathy.
By 1978, however, he was gone, eased out by the small-minded, petty individuals who dominated the club's board at the time.
A snarling confrontation, there were far too many injudicious challenges and petty personal squabbles to allow football to flow.
A sweet and submissive mantrap, Irina ultimately makes away with an art collection, most of the petty cash, and the show.
They were charged with such heavy-duty crimes as petty theft, peddling phony drivers licenses, and making unlicensed money transfers.
Why should a divine being, with creation and eternity on his mind, care a fig for petty human malefactions?
Once again you resorted to childish name-calling and petty slurs to try to demonise the party.
He asked please and then the petty name-calling and childish insults started.
In an act of petty vindictiveness she was deprived of the title of Her Royal Highness.
Even in the advertising industry, it seems that you have to show small-minded, petty acts of vandalism to get noticed.
The boardrooms of media companies are virtual hotbeds of political maneuvering, petty jealousy and back-stabbing.
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However, I hear from others that petty slanders are not only common at HP, they're pretty much a house speciality.
From the off, Spider-Man uses his wall-crawling abilities to foil the megalomaniac schemes of petty criminals and supervillains alike.
He deals with all sorts of crime in the underworld of this city, from petty theft to murder, and everything in between.
It is easy, she says, for the basics to get lost among petty controversies and whizz-bang advertising.
Born 50 years ago in Glasgow's east end, by the age of 14 he was caught up in the world of razor gangs and petty crime.
What we have is petty graft that involves cabin crew squirreling away undrunk booze after flights.
Years later he returns to London and organizes a group of street urchins into a petty crime gang which he joins.
Yet the villagers are not idealized, but portrayed with all their faults and petty hostilities.
It is not intended to open the floodgates to petty claims against those bodies, nor will it lead to large compensation payouts.
The Navy's 3,400 master chief petty officers will become the first Sailors to be detailed using Web-based technology beginning in September.
This is, and always has been, one of the most important roles we fulfill as chief, senior chief and master chief petty officers.
Of all the petty monarchies of the Octarchy, the kingdom of Mercia was by far the most wealthy.
For example, one included an Algerian married to a Frenchwoman, a football player and petty drug dealer, a computing student, and four converts.
The Boy remains behind and comments on the cowardice and petty thieving of his associates, whom he plans to leave.
And people who make petty comments about unibrows reveal more about themselves than about the tragic state of someone else's eyebrows.
It's my way of tapping into the eternal mystery of life, that mystical force that rolls on despite the petty attempts of humans to change it.
Rather, you should recognize that all our everyday concerns and worries are really petty and unimportant.
Look at the intricate beauty of the leaves on the trees and see that our petty desires are so unimportant.
Roaming bands of homeless street children engaged in petty crime are now common in Argentine cities.
Prosecutors said after investigating the eccentric heiress there was not enough evidence to convict her of petty theft.
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Bank robberies, cash-in-transit heists, petty crime and road accidents are all declining in the City of Johannesburg.
Marais said police dogs were instrumental in the arrest of 2924 suspects involved in serious and petty crimes last year.
He was promoted to an able, then demoted back to an ordinary seaman for again fighting with a petty officer.
Of course, there will always be naysayers in this world, the sort of petty cavillers, who enjoy criticizing folks like Mark.
As a manifestation of petty selfishness and greed such meanness is hard to credit.
Faced with the shameless hypocrisy of their Big Lie, the advocates resorted to petty little lies.
Among journalists, the truth has always been subordinated to petty envy and fictionalized morality tales.
Political art consisted in fusing the petty bourgeoisie into oneness through its common hostility to the proletariat.
His picture of God as a cosmic dickerer purposely makes God petty and foolish, so much so that we scornfully, angrily reject it.
After 20 years in Navy law enforcement, he retired as a senior chief petty officer and moved to Angeles 12 years ago.
My mission after the landing was to become the senior enlisted person, senior chief petty officer, and we went into the ground phase at that.
He had been a senior chief petty officer when he was drummed out of the service for improper use of Navy resources.
It was to be a tale of petty cons and flophouses, and, surely, much, much more, but Chaplin was never allowed to finish it.
He has stood up to petty tyrants, from dogmatic Communists, through McCarthyites to third-world dictators.
A variety of shanties and shelters can be attached to these houses as households engage in petty commerce and services.
I am not sure about the petty offences, for example, the stealing of the police sergeant's badge that occurred on 23 May.
A petty officer released the airlock door's locking mechanism and pulled it open.
You are so right, alas, there is more and more and no shortage of begrudgery and petty selfishness in Ballina.
His brother abroad collected a ransom thinking he was kidnapped by petty criminals.
I was the only Able Seaman on the course along with two killicks, two petty officers and four warrant officers.
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And it cuts us to the bone when people dismiss our musings as the products of ego and petty hatreds.
He has persuaded John that every socially prescribed role entraps one in falsity, the clamour of petty needs, and graspingness.
Every chief petty officer in the command is enrolled in school, or has just recently received a degree.
The new vessel has been configured with six-man cabins for junior rates and four-man cabins for petty officers and chief petty officers.
I am a lieutenant on sea duty, and she is a chief petty officer on shore duty.
My current goal is to become the very best chief petty officer that I can be.
It's amazing how one strong and loving personality can keep all the petty squabbles in check.
He could be petty and mean-spirited to subordinates, ingratiating and sycophantic to bosses and celebrities.
Revenue from supporters is proportionately far less important than it was even 10 years ago, so the Premiership clubs care a little less about your petty gripes and whinges.
These days police officers seem to spend much of their time plucking the low-hanging fruit afforded by motorists or minor transgressors of petty government edicts.
Of how incredibly petty the offense can be and how insanely disproportionate the retaliation can be.
By grabbing additional officers and petty officers to act as runners, phone talkers, and recorders, the load further was reduced and information flow to the skipper improved.
The News described Hillman as a petty criminal with 11 arrests for non-violent crimes.
They attribute his stealing of petty items to an untreated and undiagnosed case of kleptomania, a psychiatric condition that causes a person to steal compulsively.
Ever had a petty and vindictive boss, competent only at deflecting blame for his own shortcomings?
But we apparently choose to make an example out of petty transgressors such as these to lull ourselves into the belief that we're winning the battle against crime!
In no way, he said, did Brown deserve to die for what began as petty theft.
He successfully reframed the issue as being not about petty internal rules, but instead the little man standing up against the big political machine.
They came from the poor suburban neighborhoods around Paris and Toulouse in France and had backgrounds of petty criminality.
The self-confessed killer of Peruvian college student Stephany Flores was convicted of aggravated homicide and petty theft.
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Perhaps as a consequence, the year 1352 saw the introduction of the Statute of Treasons defining great treason against the king and petty treason against local lords.
In Paris Cafe society we may be viewed as petty tyrants but, say what you will, at least we are not like them, the primitive Yiddish schnorrers in black robes and fur hats.
Why did he get into arguments with petty people, like the trumpeter in his town?
The licences given to several petty shop-keepers will terminate in mid-December, and we plan to identify all such shops and their licences will be discontinued.
They fight and bicker over nothing, over petty cultural differences.
If ministers and their minions will just stop pursuing their petty vendettas through their proxies in the press, then the successes of this government should get through.
The drug trade of today multiplies the amount of cowboys and petty criminals whose internecine warfare for control of turf tends to bring crime to our doorsteps.
More familiar, but less important, were the internal squabbles and petty jealousies among civil rights leaders that hindered, but never hamstrung, the movement for justice.
From the dissolution of feudal ties emerge squabbling subjects nursing secret grievances, haughtily guarding caste privileges, or jealously policing petty distinctions.
Minutes after the sonobuoy was in the water, the faint sound of a submarine screw entered the headphones of a young petty officer aboard the helicopter.
Remember that you're too important to deal with employees' petty tiffs.
The media's finally picking up on the petty and heavy-handed restrictions in place here in Athens that I've been banging on about since I arrived.
Besides, petty judges and advocates were the only members of the third estate with wide experience of public life, and the confidence to speak out which it bred.
According to him, many unwaged Russians survive on handouts from friends and relatives, subsistence agriculture, casual labour, petty trading or petty crime.
I usually avoid engaging in cross-columnist disputes because they seem petty and self-indulgent.
Since he had just been meritoriously advanced to petty officer 3rd class, and had a great service record, Saez found he was eligible for the opportunity of a lifetime.
Almost all working free women of colour laboured in towns, as tavern-keepers and innkeepers, petty retailers, seamstresses, laundresses, and domestics.
But when the end result is tens of millions raised, do the shades of vanity or petty grudges truly matter?
One of the biggest dangers to commuters at the time was the constant threat of pickpockets and other petty thieves preying upon unsuspecting victims.
Whether it is day or night, travellers find it unsafe to stay for long hours waiting for buses here as it is the hub of pickpockets and petty thieves.
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In 1746, an English judge explained the ancient doctrine of revocability as based on the petty jealousy of courts fearing ouster of their jurisdiction.
The result of short-term royal success in eviscerating local government was a system of degenerate petty oligarchies dependent on government initiative.
Who cares about the unchangeable petty prejudices of the deeply stupid as long as they are prevented formally and rigorously from acting upon them?
Experts say petty crime rate in Japan may possibly increase when organized crime members go underground and unregulated.
Discontent with the laws, and the extortions and petty tyranny of forest officials, ensured that the forest became a major political issue in John's reign.
Another time, he came to the rescue of a young woman whose iPhone had been snatched by a petty thief.
In the US the prisons are full of druggers and petty thieves.
I doubt, though, that with so much on the line that Vick is thinking about anything so petty as revenge.
Even at superstar level, most rock bands are cesspits of raging ego, petty bitterness, monstrous vanity, sordid self-abuse and very bad hair days.
Fear of anarchy and of Bolshevik insurrection were elements common to all forms of fascism and important in attracting the support of the middle classes and petty bourgeoisie.
It seems incredible that a military fiasco as costly and complete as the Indochina war can be explained by a petty personal feud.
You'd probably have to put me down as a revisionist Kautskyite Menshevik, or maybe a rightist deviationist with extreme petty bourgeois tendencies.
These petty squabbles half a hemisphere away are not helping us at all.
It is easy to shrug off charity and goodwill as petty and self-serving, but consideration for others is not easy and will not always come naturally.
Some of the companies are still being run as greedy, petty fiefdoms.
The White Australia policy was particularly championed by the ALP, the emerging trade union aristocracy and a whole host of petty bourgeois populists.
The benefit of technocracy is that it avoids the petty mercenary self-interest of industry players.
The republic was built on the petty bourgeoisie and the middle classes.
Goal oriented, he has earned his associates degree at sea through the PACE program but remains focused on finishing his bachelors' degree and making chief petty officer.
For example, did you know that as early as 1804, there was a chief petty officer serving in the ship of war Queen Charlotte who was both black and female?
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On some ships, a few quick-thinking chief petty officers barricaded themselves and their men in vital areas, securing watertight doors against the invaders.
And despite it, the drama rings true, from the angrily delayed passenger to the horror-struck office worker and her petty and malicious co-workers.
Despite lurid tales of the Russian mafia, they have far bigger fish to fry than tourists, so miscreants are no more than the petty chancers you'd meet in any Western city.
They must ignore politicians who thrive on petty and sensational matters.
Though he strongly disagreed with it, Undran had been known to explode once in a while towards petty matters such as scratches on car doors or streaks on the windows.
This states that everyone, no matter how petty the circumstances, is allowed to receive a personal audience with the Queen to ask for her opinion on the matter.
She didn't understand why she was upset over a petty matter such as this.
One whinge that may be a bit petty concerns the thermal paste.
In the British sphere of influence, however, what the Queen does and says is proper by definition so she does not have to worry about petty would-be dictators.
Now, I can't even tempt a minor secretarial official with a petty bribe.
In the past we have had some petty vandalism but nothing on this scale.
Smaller crimes like petty theft, and burglary were common, but not murder.
None of these cost much or had much relevance but collectively, in a period where morale was weak, they were silly, petty little annoyances that were easy to avoid.
Christmas is of no use to anyone if it is an excuse for people to play at being petty tyrants, a danger especially in blended families where expectations differ.
What is immoral is stealing and being nasty to other people and skindering and seeking revenge for petty things and killing people and lots of other things.
Girls' average age of entry was fifteen, and the overwhelming majority were incarcerated for incorrigibility, immorality, truancy, desertion, and petty theft.
The council executive believes the tactic would deter petty criminals from bad behaviour, and it wants the decision to be devolved from the Met to borough police commanders.
That was not the action of a small-minded or petty individual.
Every once in a blue moon, something will come along that is so immediately affecting and amazing that our usual sarcasm-laced tone just seems petty and small-minded.
Owen Wilson plays a petty thief living in Hawaii, a place where apparently even the poorest dirtbag can afford an apartment opening onto white sandy beaches.
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It is a miserable, defensive and petty attitude for a minister for finance to have in the current climate, and it says volumes about the thinking which guides this Government.
No more cynically cutting opposition candidates out of a district for petty political purposes.
How can we get free of the petty tyrannies of our own female vanity?
Something about it fills us with such joy that we are able to let go of our every day petty grievances and be the full and expansive people we are.
It was the handicraftsmen, like the other petty bourgeois of the towns, who displayed an exceptionally revolutionary spirit in the era of the fall of absolutism.
Fred considered the objections to be petty and irrelevant, and it didn”t help that Tim was an arrogant person who was not much liked by many people.
Perhaps there are men or women of secret visionary ability in there, suffocating beneath the weight of mediocre debate and petty parochial feuding.
In the final analysis, Fascism involves the whipping up of the disoriented petty bourgeoisie against the working class in the interests of big capital.
The bitterness, pessimism and panic of layers of the American petty bourgeoisie is rising to the top in response to the advanced crisis of the social order.
Police in Trowbridge are warning retailers to stop leaving petty cash in their stores overnight after burglars broke into a town centre hairdressers.
Prophitt was charged with felonious assault and petty larceny.
The ranks of nonconformity thrived in an expanding economy of independency where the artisan might still feel closer to the petty capitalist than to the unskilled labourer.
I am very scared, and very lonely, and I feel petty and insignificant.
The innumerable nuances and petty snobberies of noble life before 1789 were reproduced and magnified in the princely courts of Turin and then Koblenz.
Forty-year-old faculty members have usually shed some of their earlier envies, animosities, and petty vanities, enabling them to be more understanding mentors.
Somehow the debate devolved into a petty competition to see who could get more applause.
He was a successful basketball coach, but many people regarded him as a petty despot.
A gang of petty thieves make a big score on an armored van, but instead of landing on easy street, they find themselves on the road to frustration.
The content of the robocalls is accurate but senior Republicans privately describe them as petty and ineffective at a time when a strong economic message is needed.
There is lots of petty theft and my neighbour next door was burgled.

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