But this line is hard to square with Ms Kadeer's descriptions of Chinese brutality, mendacity and pettiness.
Aides described Mr. Obama's tone as stern as he chided his team for "pettiness" and personality clashes.
This and other similar pettiness probably delayed my full embracing of the feminist label by a couple of years.
It follows, then, that the appearance of pettiness, vindictiveness and defensiveness are just as bad as the real thing.
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They do not have any time for the pettiness, the smallness, the posturing.
Because above all possible pettiness, this is a place where stars are born and we are all in this together.
Influential people within the party machine had been dismayed by what they saw as Mr Duncan Smith's pettiness and insecurity.
Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
Until the generals stop such pettiness, they cannot expect balanced observers to give any credence to their contention that Suu Kyi does nothing but criticize.
They're tired of the partisanship and the shouting and the pettiness.
Having come of age in serious times, you all don't have a lot of patience for pettiness and bickering and the worn divisions of the past.
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So, despite the forces of the status quo, despite the polarization and the frequent pettiness of our politics, we are confronting the great challenges of our times.
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The alternative could too easily be pettiness, fudge and cynicism.
Lord help us to turn from callousness to sensitivity, from hostility to love, from pettiness to purpose, from envy to contentment, from carelessness to discipline, from fear to faith.
Tory Penny Mordaunt said the Lib Dems were motivated by "spite, pettiness and self-interest", accusing them of making "flirtatious glances" to Labour as potential coalition partners following the 2015 poll.
It has instead represented the more recent impulse in our politics to sweep uncomfortable events out of the news, move forward in the Twitter news cycle, or grind it down into no more than partisan pettiness.
To the outsider's eye these complaints tend to display a high degree of pettiness and conceit, as with the applicant for a medical job with the commission who argued that his non-hiring was explicable only by a prejudice on the commission's part against Swedish medical qualifications.
Having given Jimmy Carter its Peace Prize in 2002 as an acknowledged slap at the then-incumbent U.S. President, having slammed the latter's approach to "global warming" by awarding the Peace Prize in 2007 to Al Gore and a gaggle of like-minded UN scientists, conferring this tribute on Mr. Bush's as-yet-unaccomplished successor is evidence not just of the far-left ideological orientation of the Norwegian panel, but of its pettiness.
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