There have been so many contract scandals and leadership fundraising peccadillos that the Prime Minister has yielded to the opposition pressure to bring in the new ethics rules. |
Besides, Mr Berlusconi is under investigation for crimes that are not mere peccadillos committed in the face of red tape and nitpicking taxmen. |
The state should not have to underwrite the sexual peccadillos of the irresponsible or pamper the bone idle. |
Her quest leads her into the clutches of others who are eager to use her to satisfy their own sexual peccadillos. |
Tax peccadillos got him off to a bad start with lawmakers. |
Members of both like to highlight the socalled plight of the rich and famous, whose personal peccadillos are sometimes raucously exposed by the press. |